1st Edition
Media, Dissidence and the War in Ukraine
This volume examines the global media coverage of the armed conflict in Ukraine, focusing on the marginalization of dissident perspectives in the West and the information quality and diversity on social media.
Along with presenting original, empirical studies on how mainstream media in countries as diverse as Israel, the Czech Republic, Ghana, and the Netherlands have covered the conflict between NATO and Russia since 2022, this book sheds light on the role of the state and the media in policing the boundaries of permissible thought on the conflict in the West, as well as in Russia and Ukraine. It also delves into the war’s representation on prominent social media platforms.
Written by a diverse group of international researchers, this multifaceted volume offers new perspectives and insights on the reporting of the ongoing conflict. It will interest scholars of international communication and media, foreign policy and international politics, war and conflict, content analysis, and journalism.
Preface
Cees Hamelink
Introduction: The war in Ukraine and foreign news reporting
Tabe Bergman and Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman
Part 1: Traditional and social media
Chapter 1: Shifting the burden of proof? A comparative analysis of evidential standards in Israeli media coverage of Ukraine and Gaza
Yigal Godler and Shai Parnes
Chapter 2: The Russia-Ukraine war on Czech screens: Television coverage and audience responses
Tomáš Holešovský, Věra Bartalosová and Jakub Ketman
Chapter 3: Secondary source reporting as the norm: Ghanaian media coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war
Liesbeth Tjon A Meeuw and Philomina Mintah
Chapter 4: Unraveling diverse Chinese discourses on the Russo-Ukrainian war: A comparative analysis of official and individual accounts on Weibo
Dechun Zhang and Jian Shi
Chapter 5: The moderated war in Ukraine: Twitter, Elon Musk, and the role of private platforms in war coverage
Jessica Yarin Robinson
Part 2: Media and dissidence
Chapter 6: Silencing alternative voices in times of war in Ukraine and Russia
Olga Baysha and Kamilla Chukasheva
Chapter 7: Silencing the scholars: Academia, managing dissent, and the war in Ukraine
Tim Hayward and Piers Robinson
Chapter 8: Who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines in a Dutch newspaper? De Volkskrant versus Seymour Hersh
Tabe Bergman
Chapter 9: Representing diverse perspectives on complex crises: Interactive documentary and the online media coverage of the Ukraine conflict
John Hondros
Chapter 10: Big Tech platforms vs RT: Dissidence as the first casualty?
Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman
Biography
Tabe Bergman is Associate Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong- Liverpool University in Suzhou, China. He was a journalist with the Associated Press before he became an academic. He completed his PhD at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. His research interests are in global journalism, specifically the coverage of foreign affairs by the Western media.
Jesse Owen Hearns- Branaman is Associate Professor of International Journalism and the Head of the Department of Communication at Beijing Normal University- Hong Kong Baptist University United International College. His research interests include post- structuralism, ideology, critical linguistics, political economy of news, comparative journalism, tourism, and epistemological theory.
