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Making sense of the news in a hybrid regime: how young Russians decode state TV and an oppositional blog

Toepfl, Florian (2013) Making sense of the news in a hybrid regime: how young Russians decode state TV and an oppositional blog. Journal of Communication, 63 (2). pp. 244-265. ISSN 0021-9916

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Identification Number: 10.1111/jcom.12018

Abstract

The past 2 decades have seen an increasingly intense debate on how the rise of Internet-mediated communication has impacted politics in (semi)authoritarian regimes. Previous works have adopted a wide array of approaches. Yet, to date no major study has investigated how citizens in these regimes are making sense of political messages they encounter online in the new, more fragmented media environments of the Internet age. In an initial attempt to fill this gap, this explorative study juxtaposes how young Russians make sense of a liberal-democratic blog entry and, by contrast, a news broadcast from state-controlled TV. On the basis of the findings from 20 in-depth interviews, the article discusses promising avenues for future audience research in hybrid regimes

Item Type: Article
Official URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(IS...
Additional Information: © 2013 International Communication Association
Divisions: Media and Communications
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
J Political Science > JA Political science (General)
Date Deposited: 19 Mar 2013 14:22
Last Modified: 06 Mar 2024 01:36
Funders: Thyssen Foundation
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/49239

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