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International Broadcasting and the Post-Soviet Russian-speaking Community

Outputs by Stephen Hutchings & Vitaly Kazakov

Articles and Book Chapters

Rhys Crilley, Marie Gillespie, Vitaly Kazakov and Alistair Willis, '"Russia isn’t a country of Putins!": How RT Bridged the Credibility Gap in Russian Public Diplomacy during the 2018 FIFA World Cup', The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, online first (27 May 2021).

Stephen Hutchings, 'RT and the Digital Revolution: Reframing Russia for a Mediatized World', in Byford, Andy, Doak, Connor & Hutchings, Stephen (eds.), Transnational Russian Studies (Liverpool University Press, 2019), pp. 283-300.

Vitaly Kazakov and Stephen Hutchings, 'Challenging the "Information War" Paradigm: Russophones and Russophobes in Online Eurovision Communities', in Wijermars, Mariëlle & Lehtisaari, Katja (eds.), Freedom of Expression in Russia’s New Mediasphere (Routledge, 2019), pp. 137-158.

Papers

21-23 June 2021
Dr Vitaly Kazakov gives paper 'RT’s International Coverage of the Pandemic and its Reception and Circulation on New Media Platforms' at the 'Foreign Events through the Lens of Russian Media' panel at the British International Studies Association (BISA) 2021 international conference.

14 November 2019
Dr Vitaly Kazakov gives paper 'Transnational Affection and Conflict in the New Media Remembering of a Global Media Event: From “Electronic Monuments” to “Shapeshifting Memory Colossi” of Sochi 2014' at the workshop 'Strategic Political Communication and Translocal Media Flows' at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, Canada.

18 June 2019
Dr Vitaly Kazakov gives paper 'Memory Ecology and Interpretation of the Sochi 2014 Olympics’ Legacy: From "Electronic Monuments" to "Shapeshifting Digital Memory Colossi"' at the conference 'Legacy of Olympic and Paralympic Games' at the The Observatory for Mega-Events Research, University Paris‐Est, France.

13 April 2019
Dr Vitaly Kazakov gives paper 'From Sochi 2014 to Russia 2018: (Social) Media Memory and Interpretation of Russian Mega-Events’ in the 'Mediation, Reception, and Memory of Sports Mega-Events in Russia and Beyond: From Cold War to "Information War"' panel, BASEES 2019, Cambridge (12-14 April 2019).

29 March 2019
Professor Stephen Hutchings gives paper 'Media, Agency and Neo-authoritarian States in the Age of the Decentred Centre: Russia (Mis)reports the Salisbury Poisoning' at the workshop Transnational and Diasporic Russophone Media in the UK and Beyond, Princess Dashkova Centre, Edinburgh University.

14 March 2019
Professor Stephen Hutchings gives paper 'Reframing Russia for the Global Mediasphere: The Spy who Came Back from the Snow' at the Nationalism, Ethnicity and Cultural Diversity in the Digital Age symposium, Durham University.

20 February 2019
Dr Vitaly Kazakov gives paper 'Twitter Data Collection during a Media Event: The "Media and Popular Reception of Russia's Mega-Events, 2014-2018" Project' at the Research IT Grant Clinic for Humanities Researchers, University of Manchester.

7 December 2018
Dr Vitaly Kazakov gives paper 'Tweeting Popular Cultural Information War: Eurovision 2017 Through the Eyes of RT Russian Twitter Followers' in the 'Freedom of Expression in Russia’s New Mediasphere' panel, ASEEES 2018, Boston, US, 6-9 December 2018 (delivered in absentia by Mariëlle Wijermars).

17 October 2018
Dr Vitaly Kazakov gives paper 'Can a “Good World Cup” Improve Russia’s Image? Insights from Journalists and Fans at Russia 2018' at the 2018 Football World Cup in Russia: Cultural Impact & International Reception workshop, Durham University.

21 June 2018
Professor Stephen Hutchings gives paper 'What is Russia’s Game? Two Challenges to the "Information War" Model – Two Russian Worlds' at the Russia and the Russian Worlds: International, Multinational, Transnational workshop, Hatfield College SCR, Durham.

14 April 2018
Professor Stephen Hutchings and Dr Vitaly Kazakov present the paper ‘From Russophone to Russophobe: Eurovision 2017 and Russian-speaking Social Media Audiences in the Age of the ‘Information War’, in the panel 'Russia and the "Information War": The Role of RT' at the BASEES 2018 annual conference, Cambridge (13-15 April 2018).

18 October 2017
Dr Vitaly Kazakov gives paper 'Tweeting Popular Cultural Information War: A Transnational Analysis of Russian-Language Twitter Responses to the 2017 Kiev Eurovision Final' at the Narrative, Discourse & Communication in Transnational Media workshop for early-career researchers affiliated to Cross-Language Dynamics, held at Durham University (17-18 October 2017).

16 September 2017
Dr Vitaly Kazakov gives paper 'Popular-Cultural Information War: Russian-Language Twitter Responses to the 2017 Kiev Eurovision Final' in the 'Russian Going Global' panel at the Transnational Russian Studies symposium, Durham University (14-16 September 2017).

17 June 2017
Professor Stephen Hutchings gives paper ‘Recent Televisual Representations of Russians in London: A Home from Home?’ at the workshop Londongrad and Londongradians: Identities, Imaginaries and Cultural Practices of Russians in the UK, Princess Dashkova Centre, University of Edinburgh (16-17 June 2017).

Public Engagement, Impact, Outreach

Vitaly Kazakov, 'What Does the Hacking of the Tokyo Olympics Mean for Russia’s Reputation?', Commentary, The Royal United Services Institute, 22 March 2021.

Stephen Hutchings, 'Cultural Diplomacy, Linguistic Diversity and the Softening of Power: Towards a Progressive Patriotism', Cross-Language Dynamics blog, 11 February 2020.

Vitaly Kazakov, 'After the Doping and Hooliganism Scandals, Russia Needs a Good World Cup', The Independent, 14 June 2018.

Vitaly Kazakov, 'Countering the Doping and Hooliganism Scandals: Why Russia Needs a Good World Cup', The Conversation, 12 June 2018.

Vitaly Kazakov, 'Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Russian Sports Ambassadors as Agents of Soft Power in the Age of the “Information War”', Russian Analytical Digest 216, 21 March 2018, pp. 4-8.