Research shows that government-controlled media is an effective tool for authoritarian
regimes to shape public opinion. Does government-controlled media remain effective when …

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

With Internet access, citizens in non-democracies are often able to diversify their news
media repertoires despite government-imposed restrictions on media freedom. The extent to …

On 1 January 2017, a Russian federal law (№ 208-FZ) came into force that holds news
aggregators liable for spreading fake news. Links to news items that originate from …

The literature on divided (or contested) cities has expanded rapidly during the past decade,
with a handful of iconic sites presiding over the long list of cities wounded by conflict …

Countries in the Middle East go to considerable lengths using mass media to try to maintain
or improve their images among the US public. The same countries often engage in negative …

This article offers a theoretically explained model for analysing the strategies of vernacular
sense-making used by transnational audiences in times of political disagreement. The …

Drawing on the concept of strategic narrative, this article explores how Russia's issue
narratives on the Ukraine events were reproduced by local narrative agents. I conducted …

This paper is concerned with the role of International Relations (IR) expertise and the
academia–policy nexus in contemporary Russia. Drawing on interviews with Russia-based …

Research on autocracies often posits that propaganda can manipulate citizens' beliefs, but
existing work does not systematically investigate how well individuals recognize …