Information Wars in the Baltic States: Russia’s Long Shadow – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 3030999866

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 3030999874
• ISBN-13: 9783030999872
• Author: Shadow Janis Chakars, Indra Ekmanis

This edited volume, featuring accomplished scholars, is about the information wars in the Baltic states, a battle that pits Russia against the West with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as sites of contention for great power politics. Chapters address responses from titular populations, local Russian speakers, national governments, activists, journalists, and NATO, as well as the impact of Russian foreign policy on media.

Table contents:

Part I. The Weight of History

2. Echoes of the Past: Media and History in the Baltic Battlespace

3. Russian Disinformation: The Forest Brothers, Baltic Resistance, and NATO

Part II. The Weight of Ethnicity

4. Making Sense of Public Media in Times of Geo-Political Crisis: Latvian Public Media and their Ethno-Linguistic Majority and Minority Audiences

5. Building Bridges: Estonian- and Russian-Speaking TV Audiences and the Value of Estonian Public Service Broadcasting, 2010–2020

6. Building or Banning? Russian-Language TV in Latvia

Part III. The Digital Challenges

7. Bots, Trolls, Elves, and the Information War in Lithuania: Theoretical Considerations and Practical Problems

8. Robotrolling in the Baltic States

Part IV. The Responses

9. Disinformation Analysis and Citizen Activism in the “Post-Truth” Era: The Case of DebunkEU.org

10. The Perils of Defense in an Information War: Media, Minorities, and the Threat Next Door

11. NATO’s Response to Information Warfare Threats

Part V. The Complications

12. “Let Them Flee to Sweden: There, Everyone Looks at Them More Politely”: Gay Propaganda and LGBT Rights in the Baltic States

13. The Best of Enemies: Identity, Recursion, and the Convergence of Kremlin and Estonian Strategic Narratives in the Global Populist Discourse

Part VI. Epilogue

14. Epilogue: Baltic Journalists Respond to Disinformation

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