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In Pursuit of Kairos: Ukrainian Journalists between Agency and Structure during Euromaidan

Baltic Worlds, 2019

In this article, I examine the role of journalists during Euromaidan in November 2013–February 2014. The conceptualization of a specific case of power, the media power (found in works by Bolin, Couldry, Curran, Hjarvard, Mancini, Zelizer, and others) basically oscillates between two extremes – that of regarding the media as heteronomous of the political field and that of arguing that the media increasingly influence other fields through processes of mediatization. What is the role of journalists in power relations? Under which conditions is the power of journalists – and their agency – likely to grow? This article presents the results of a series of interviews with Ukrainian journalists who covered the events of Euromaidan in different capacities. Validated with other evidence, their narratives suggest a positive power dynamic for the Ukrainian journalists during the protest events.

Natalya Ryabinska: Ukrainian Euromaidan Protests and the New Media

R/evolutions: VOLUME 2: NEW AND SOCIAL MEDIA… & REGIONAL INTEGRATION IN AFRICA, Vol 2, Issue 1, June 2014, p. 128 - 141

In late 2013, eight years after the Orange Revolution Ukraine has again become the site of mass protests, this time against the government’s decision on November 21 to stop the integration with the European Union and end the pursuit of the association agreement. The new media played a key role in the protests from the very beginning. This paper is a contribution to the discussion on how these new media were used during the so-called Euromaidan protests in Ukraine in November 2013-February 2014 and how the protests in turn contributed to the popularity of the new media in the country.

Between Professionalism and Activism: Ukrainian Journalism after the Euromaidan

A crucial benchmark in Ukraine's recent history, the Euromaidan protests triggered many transformations across Ukrainian society. Ukrainian journalism has affected and has been affected by these changes and their challenges. Journalists' activism emerged as one of the major features of Ukraine's post-Euromaidan media landscape but remains understudied. Informed by the concepts of " journalism culture " and " journalism professionalism, " this article explores journalists' perceptions about their activism, the boundaries of their professionalism and their experiences confronting the activism versus professionalism dilemma. It identifies journalists' competing approaches to the new challenges and their complicated context and discusses these approaches' implications for the Ukrainian media and journalism.

Ukraine's Euromaidan Broadcasting through Information Wars with Hromadske Radio

2016

How can you counteract an information war? Hromadske Radio, Public Radio Ukraine, decided to provide accurate and objective information to audiences – free of state and corporate censorship and any kind of manipulation. They broadcasted throughout Ukraine’s Euromaidan, and beyond. This book brings together a series of English language reports on the Ukraine crisis first broadcast on Hromadske Radio between 3 February 2014 and 7 August 2015. Collected and transcribed here, they offer a kaleidoscopic chronicle of events in Ukraine

Journalists’ roles and ethics in turbulent times: Contemporary Controversies in Ukraine

Media Transformations, 2013

The collapse of the Soviet Union started a new era of media transformations in Ukraine. The end of state-controlled media associated with censorship and informational isolation, first lessons of transition to market-driven media system, political turbulences and pressures, and the emergence of journalism professional values, new rhythms dictated by technologies -they all caused significant and rapid changes to journalism culture and media practice. This article is devoted to the issues of media freedom in contemporary post-Soviet Ukraine. Based on the interpretive and visual (collage elicitation) research, it suggests looking at the phenomenon of journalists' freedom through the journalists' considerations and as a part of individual ethics, and explores how journalists see their role within the media practices they experience. Ukrainian journalists cannot play the role of agents in democratic change. Justifying the experienced pressures by different, usually external, reasons, Ukrainian journalists tend to adjust ethical norms to existing practices. It causes further conflict between normative standards and their interpretation and implementation in practice that is, according to Voltmer and Dobreva (2009), typical for new democracies in which old structures and values coexist with new democratic norms. In this paper, first, a review of the path of journalism evolution in post-Soviet and contemporary Ukraine and the forces behind the pressures journalists experience. Further, I will refer to the particularities of normative and individual journalism ethics as they are discussed in theoretical works and, finally, present the results of qualitative study showing how journalists interpret their ethical choices and decisions, and, more importantly, perceive their professional roles when they discuss their experienced practices.

Introduction: Russian Media and the War in Ukraine

This collection of articles focuses on the Russian information war campaign that has accompanied and fueled the war in Ukraine. Of course, neither side has a monopoly on the use of propaganda and disinformation, and the latter are always present in any war. 2 But we have chosen to focus here on the Russian state media machine, as a phenomenon that not only looms especially large over the events of the past year but is also bound to continue to play a major role in shaping future developments in the region and beyond.

Ukrainian media and society: still "not so free". Eurozine, 23 November 2001.

In this analysis of the Ukrainian media landscape and its preconditions, the author maintains that "a situation, when people have plenty of rights on paper but cannot employ them in reality has largely persisted in the post−Soviet space. The only substantial difference between the post−Soviet states and the Soviet Union is that the latter had had a compulsory ideology". Rather than painting a negative or positive future in conclusion, he reminds that there is a future yet to be shaped.