Television, Power, and the Public in Russia - Softcover

Mickiewicz, Ellen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521716756 ISBN 13: 9780521716758

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

The Russian media are widely seen to be increasingly controlled by the government. Leaders buy up opposing television channels and pour money in as fast as it hemorrhages out. As a result, TV news has become narrower in scope and in the range of viewpoints which it reflects: leaders demand assimilation and shut down dissenting stations. Using original and extensive focus group research and new developments in cognitive theory, Ellen Mickiewicz unveils a profound mismatch between the complacent assumption of Russian leaders that the country will absorb their messages, and the viewers on the other side of the screen. This is the first book to reveal what the Russian audience really thinks of its news and the mental strategies they use to process it. The focus on ordinary people, rather than elites, makes a strong contribution to the study of post-communist societies and the individual's relationship to the media.

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Book Description

Russian leaders are increasingly controlling the media, assuming that viewers will automatically assimilate the messages it broadcasts. This is the first book to reveal what the Russian audience really thinks of its TV news and the original and individual ways they process it.

About the Author

Ellen Mickiewicz is James R. Shepley Professor of Public Policy Studies in the Sanford Institute for Public Policy and Professor of Political Science at Duke University. She is a leading authority on Russian news media, and her previous publications include Changing Channels: Television and the Struggle for Power in Russia (1997) and Split Signals: Television and Politics in the Soviet Union (1988).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521716756
• ISBN 13: 9780521716758
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 222