Jürgen Bruchhaus: Runet 2000. Die politische Regulierung des russchischen Internet (2001) [German]

“In the present work I’m  interested in the political regulation of the Runet and follow the question, which participants with which interests are involved in this regulation and form under which influences them their preferences. To that extent it concerns with this work a sector study, whereby the substantial characteristics of this sector in the process of the work are to be worked out.” (author).

Master thesis
Osteuropa-Institut der Freien Universität Berlin
Herausgeber: Klaus Segbers
Redaktion: Susanne Nies
ISSN 1434 – 419X

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Ellen Propper Mickiewicz: Television, Power, and the Public in Russia (2008)

The Russian media are widely seen to be increasingly controlled by the government. Leaders buy up dissenting television channels and pour money in as fast as it haemorrhages 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.

• Uses new methods to ascertain the role of television in the lives of the Russian public • Analyses viewers’ reactions to officially controlled television programs, and argues that they are not duped by it • Discusses the loss of diversity following the Kremlin’s decision to close down commercial channels and the resulting effects on the development of democracy in Russia

Publisher Cambridge University Press, 2008
ISBN 0521888565, 9780521888561
Length 212 pages

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Nadia Michoustina (ed.): Art, Technology and Modernity in Russia and Eastern Europe (2000)

Contents:
* Nadia Michoustina, Introduction
* Cynthia Simmons, Fly Me to the Moon: Modernism and the Soviet Space Program in Viktor Pelevin’s Omon Ra
* Julia Vaingurt, Base Superstructures and Technical Difficulties in Maiakovskii’s America
* Andrei Khrenov, Power and Technology as the Political-Aesthetic Project: Towards the Similarity of the Russian Avant-garde of the Twenties and Stalinist Cinema
* Kimberly Elman, Garden Cities and Company Towns: Tomas Baťa and the Formation of Zlin, Czechoslovakia

Selected Papers from the Conference held at Columbia University on March 31-April 1, 2000
The Harriman Review, Vol. 12, No. 4, November 2000
35 pages

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