What role does propaganda play in the information politics of authoritarian societies, and
what is its relationship to censorship? What have we learned from rival accounts in recent …

There is a growing interest in quantitative analysis of large corpora among the international
relations (IR) scholars, but many of them find it difficult to perform analysis consistently with …

Many social scientists recognize that quantitative text analysis is a useful research
methodology, but its application is still concentrated in documents written in European …

This article discusses the results of verbal framing analysis of the conflict in news published
on Telegram channels by the Russian news agency RIA Novosti (RIAN) and the Ukrainian …

Scholars report contradictory findings regarding whether citizens trust media in autocracies.
Relying on focus group methodology, this study uses Russian television viewers' reception …

This article argues that accounts of the Russian media system that tend to view the time from
Vladimir Putin's rise to power in 2000 as a single homogenous period do not capture major …

Research shows that dictators' public rhetoric shapes both elite and mass opinion and
behavior. However, the determinants of dictators' strategic communication remain …

I first knew that I wanted to write a book about Russian uses of history when I was living in
Moscow in 2014. That it has taken so long to get to that point is testament to quite how much …

Objectivity in news reporting is one of the most widely discussed topics in journalism, and a
number of studies on bias in news have been conducted, but there is little agreement on …

Do opposition protests affect citizens' attitudes in electoral autocracies? While existing
research expects that as protests unfold in illiberal regimes support for the protesters will …