Putin's Press: a Mixed-Methods Analysis of State Control over Russian Media Coverage & Framing of the Jan-Feb 2021 Protests

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This project will focus on the Russian media sphere, collecting news articles from various sources of Russian media and comparing their coverage of the January-February 2021 Russian protests to uncover the interrelationships between government control and Russian media groups, as well as the impacts of censorship at various levels of state media control. The project will utilize a mixed methods research design, using quantitative data analysis to identify trends in coverage of the protests by different media groups, as well as qualitative interviews conducted with Russian media actors to hear their experiences and perspectives on the impact of state control on the media sphere. Findings include that, for example, Russia Today, a state-controlled media group, employs very different frames for coverage, illustrating the protests much more negatively, than TV Rain, an independent media group.
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