Their Fight, Our News: A Case Study of Pussy Riot in British and Russian Online Media
Their Fight, Our News: A Case Study of Pussy Riot in British and Russian Online Media
Author(s): Julija MoskvinaContributor(s): Johana Kotišová (Editor)
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Communication studies
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Fakulta sociálních věd
Keywords: Foreign news; critique; ideology; Russia; Great Britain
Summary/Abstract: Russian punk band Pussy Riot became famous afer a performance in the athedral of Christthe Saviour in Moscow and a trial which came to be well-known orldwide. Te paper compares Russian pro-Kremlin and liberal media to British conservative and liberal media inorder to demonstrate how components of ideology reinforced the genesis of a critical actor inforeign news. In the Russian case, Pussy Riot, as a critical actor, did not appear in the newsbecause of the ideological structures and role of the selected newspapers in the society. Inthe case of selected British nline media, Pussy Riot was presented as an autonomous collective critical actor engaged in the process of politicization. Terefore, ideology embeddedin foreign news can play not only a reductive role, as previous research has shown, but also a productive one, reinforcing the genesis of critique.
Journal: Mediální studia
- Issue Year: 13/2019
- Issue No: 02
- Page Range: 123-142
- Page Count: 20
- Language: English
