News outlets worldwide increasingly adopt user-and system-driven personalisation to
individualise their news delivery. Yet, the technical implementation of news personalisation …

Research on mass media in authoritarian regimes focuses more on state mechanisms of
control than on actual media reporting and on moments of crises much more than on times …

On the example of Ukraine during the Yanukovich presidency (2010–2014) this article
explores which factors support journalists' agency in relation to censorship pressure in a …

The formation of political systems in the post-Soviet region remains a relevant topic even
thirty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Due to social, economic, and cultural …

Studies of competitive authoritarian regimes regularly emphasize the political importance of
media ownership, commonly assuming that the owners' views are mirrored in the journalists' …

This article analyzes the plethora of disinformation materials that emerged during the most
recent negotiations between Russia and Belarus on “further integration”—that is, the …

Based on a content analysis of over 5,500 media articles, this contribution analyses debates
about export pipelines in five post-Soviet countries, namely Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia …

This research investigates media control in non-democratic regimes through the example of
state information contracts, a leading form of state support for regional media outlets in …

This article focuses on how visual media interacts with the government practices in
competitive authoritarian regimes. We argue that while the visual representation of refugees …

How can a de-institutionalised protest movement disrupt a solidified, repressive and
extremely resilient authoritarian regime? Using the context of the Kazakh Spring protests …