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The study is built around two cases of television blackout, occurred in Germany and Russia in 201... more The study is built around two cases of television blackout, occurred in Germany and Russia in 2016 — the former over sexual assaults in Cologne on the New Year’s Eve, and the latter over the “bloody nanny”, an Uzbek woman, beheading a child in Moscow in February 2016. Political implications of the cases, i.e., Russia’s involvement in the Syrian conflict and Germany’s receiving asylum seekers, fleeing from Syria, served as the common ground for this comparative analysis. The current research represents the first attempt to compare distinct media systems on the basis of two separate cases.
The current study explores the phenomenon of Black Twitter from both viewpoints, as a cultural ou... more The current study explores the phenomenon of Black Twitter from both viewpoints, as a cultural outlet that mediates the racial identity and as a mobilizing tool for social activism. Namely, the author aims to explore the links between sociopolitical messages, concluded in the hashtags, and their contextual framing.
One of the major aspects of the study is devoted to the disrupting role that Twitter plays in the general flow of information and to its uptake by African Americans in order to contest the devaluation of racialized bodies in mainstream media. The author attempts to examine Twitter as a “stereotype-free zone” to deduce the rationale beyond the misrepresentation of the black community in mainstream media and to justify the active use of social media for mobilizing efforts and in the case of emergency.
Inherently multilingual, public service broadcasters have been reaching out to global audiences s... more Inherently multilingual, public service broadcasters have been reaching out to global audiences since their first days — long before the Internet began to grow in the late 1990s. Major international broadcasters — BBC and Voice of America, Deutsche Welle, and Radio France Internationale — set a goal, not only to provide news and information but also to promote a national language — British and American English, German and French respectively. In using TV, radio, and online programming, public service broadcasters offer their listeners educational and entertaining content aimed at foreign language acquisition.
The current study examines the case of Deutsche Welle and its project 'DW — Learn German' to define, whether a language-learning component allows public broadcasters to supply the global audience with a country’s agenda — from local and national to international and global issues.
The study is built around two cases of television blackout, occurred in Germany and Russia in 201... more The study is built around two cases of television blackout, occurred in Germany and Russia in 2016 — the former over sexual assaults in Cologne on the New Year’s Eve, and the latter over the “bloody nanny”, an Uzbek woman, beheading a child in Moscow in February 2016. Political implications of the cases, i.e., Russia’s involvement in the Syrian conflict and Germany’s receiving asylum seekers, fleeing from Syria, served as the common ground for this comparative analysis. The current research represents the first attempt to compare distinct media systems on the basis of two separate cases.
The current study explores the phenomenon of Black Twitter from both viewpoints, as a cultural ou... more The current study explores the phenomenon of Black Twitter from both viewpoints, as a cultural outlet that mediates the racial identity and as a mobilizing tool for social activism. Namely, the author aims to explore the links between sociopolitical messages, concluded in the hashtags, and their contextual framing.
One of the major aspects of the study is devoted to the disrupting role that Twitter plays in the general flow of information and to its uptake by African Americans in order to contest the devaluation of racialized bodies in mainstream media. The author attempts to examine Twitter as a “stereotype-free zone” to deduce the rationale beyond the misrepresentation of the black community in mainstream media and to justify the active use of social media for mobilizing efforts and in the case of emergency.
Inherently multilingual, public service broadcasters have been reaching out to global audiences s... more Inherently multilingual, public service broadcasters have been reaching out to global audiences since their first days — long before the Internet began to grow in the late 1990s. Major international broadcasters — BBC and Voice of America, Deutsche Welle, and Radio France Internationale — set a goal, not only to provide news and information but also to promote a national language — British and American English, German and French respectively. In using TV, radio, and online programming, public service broadcasters offer their listeners educational and entertaining content aimed at foreign language acquisition.
The current study examines the case of Deutsche Welle and its project 'DW — Learn German' to define, whether a language-learning component allows public broadcasters to supply the global audience with a country’s agenda — from local and national to international and global issues.