Media Communication Strategies in Putin's Russia -- What Is RT? -- Curation, Insinuation, and Delegation on RT International News Broadcasts -- RT's European Union 2019 Election Coverage -- Mediatization and the Salisbury Poisonings -- Mapping RT's Global Online Audiences -- Talking to RT Audiences -- Disinformation, Identity Discourses, and War -- War on the Liberal (B)order
Summary
"This book illuminates disinformation's relationship with liberal democracy through a comprehensive analysis of the multilingual, multiplatform outputs of, and audience responses to, Russia's international broadcaster, RT, before and after the invasion of Ukraine. It contextualizes RT within a global media ecology shaped by populist trends increasingly penetrating the liberal order"-- Provided by publisher