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Revolution Stalled

The Political Limits of the Internet in the Post-Soviet Sphere

by Sarah Oates ...

Series series Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
Can the internet fundamentally challenge non-free regimes? The role that social networking has played in promoting political change in the Middle East and beyond raises important questions about the ability of authoritarian leaders to control the information sphere and their subjects. Revolution Stalled goes beyond the idea of "virtual" politics to study five key components in the relationship ... Read more

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Can the internet fundamentally challenge non-free regimes? The role that social networking has played in promoting political change in the Middle East and beyond raises important questions about the ability of authoritarian leaders to control the information sphere and their subjects. Revolution Stalled goes beyond the idea of "virtual" politics to study five key components in the relationship
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Seeing Red

Russian Propaganda and American News

by Sarah Oates, Gordon Neil Ramsay ...

The U.S. media has been tainted with Russian disinformation, but the more significant threat is how the Right has embraced the Russian model of the news media as a vehicle for propaganda. This could not have happened without Donald Trump, who has been aided and abetted by politicians and news outlets that favor persuasion over information. From his inauguration onwards, Trump has shown allegiance ... Read more

$19.99 USD

The U.S. media has been tainted with Russian disinformation, but the more significant threat is how the Right has embraced the Russian model of the news media as a vehicle for propaganda. This could not have happened without Donald Trump, who has been aided and abetted by politicians and news outlets that favor persuasion over information. From his inauguration onwards, Trump has shown allegiance
... Read more
Introduction to Media and Politics

by Sarah Oates ...

′...a lively introduction to media and politics, with timely chapters on the media, war and terrorism and the internet. If you want to know why media matters in politics this is a great place to start′ - Dr Margaret Scammell, London School of Economics and Political Science′This book has the truly international perspective that helps to put politics and media in the context of current world events ... Read more

$94.49 USD

′...a lively introduction to media and politics, with timely chapters on the media, war and terrorism and the internet. If you want to know why media matters in politics this is a great place to start′ - Dr Margaret Scammell, London School of Economics and Political Science′This book has the truly international perspective that helps to put politics and media in the context of current world events
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Television, Democracy and Elections in Russia

by Sarah Oates ...

Series series BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
Sarah Oates gives a detailed examination on a central theme in political science: the relationship between democracy and the mass media. This significant book contains a wealth of information and data, including: public opinion surveys, content analysis of television news, focus groups and in-depth interviews to examine why political parties and the mass media failed so spectacularly to aid in the ... Read more

$65.99 USD

Sarah Oates gives a detailed examination on a central theme in political science: the relationship between democracy and the mass media. This significant book contains a wealth of information and data, including: public opinion surveys, content analysis of television news, focus groups and in-depth interviews to examine why political parties and the mass media failed so spectacularly to aid in the
... Read more
Mass Media in the Post-Soviet World

Market Forces, State Actors, and Political Manipulation in the Informational Environment after Communism

by Marlene Laruelle, Marlene Laruelle, Peter Rollberg, Peter Rollberg, Andreas Umland, Tudor Vlad, Lee B. Becker, Jack Snyder, Maria Lipman, Jonathan Becker, Marta Dyczok0, Oleg Manaev1, Barbara Junisbai2, Azamat Junisbai3, Nicola Ying Fry4, Kornely Kakachia5, Tamara Pataraia6, Michael Cecire7, Elisabeth Schimpfossl8, Ilya Yablokov9, Sarah Oates0, Luca Anceschi1, Abdulfattoh Shafiev2, Marintha Miles3, Olena Nikolayenko4, Navbahor Imamova5 ...

Series Book 178 - Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
This collection covers the major trends of the media environment of the post-Communist world and their recent development, with special focus on Russia and the post-Soviet space. The term ‘media environment’ covers not just traditional print and electronic media, but new media as well, and ranges from the political to entertainment and various artistic spheres. What role do market forces play in ... Read more

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This collection covers the major trends of the media environment of the post-Communist world and their recent development, with special focus on Russia and the post-Soviet space. The term ‘media environment’ covers not just traditional print and electronic media, but new media as well, and ranges from the political to entertainment and various artistic spheres. What role do market forces play in
... Read more
Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

2015/1: The Russian Media and the War in Ukraine

by Andriy Portnov, Andreas Umland, Edwin Bacon, Rolf Fredheim, Tatiana Riabova, Oleg Riabov, Alexandr Osipian, Elizaveta Gaufman, Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Nikolay Mitrokhin, Anne Applebaum, Margarita Akhvlediani, Sabra Ayres, Renaud de la Brosse, Rory Finnin, James Marson, Sarah Oates, Simon Ostrovsky, Kevin Platt, Peter Pomerantsev, Natalia Rulyova, Michael Weiss, Maksym Yakovlyev, Rasmus Nielson ...

Series Book 1.1 - Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
The Russian war in Ukraine has been accompanied, fuelled and legitimized by a Russian information war campaign that is unprecedented in its scope and nature. Increasingly lurid in form, sometimes surreal, the Russian state-media propaganda campaign has been surprisingly successful in disguising and distorting the nature of the war and shaping the way it is perceived and understood, both in Russia ... Read more

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The Russian war in Ukraine has been accompanied, fuelled and legitimized by a Russian information war campaign that is unprecedented in its scope and nature. Increasingly lurid in form, sometimes surreal, the Russian state-media propaganda campaign has been surprisingly successful in disguising and distorting the nature of the war and shaping the way it is perceived and understood, both in Russia
... Read more
The Internet and Politics

Citizens, Voters and Activists

Edited by Sarah Oates, Diana Owen, Rachel K. Gibson ...

Series series Democratization and Autocratization Studies
This volume explores the nature of the Internet's impact on civil society, addressing the following central questions:is the Internet qualitatively different from the more traditional forms of the media?has the Internet demonstrated real potential to improve civil society through a wider provision of information, an enhancement of communication between government and citizen, or via better state ... Read more

$65.99 USD

This volume explores the nature of the Internet's impact on civil society, addressing the following central questions:is the Internet qualitatively different from the more traditional forms of the media?has the Internet demonstrated real potential to improve civil society through a wider provision of information, an enhancement of communication between government and citizen, or via better state
... Read more
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48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister

by Joyce Carol Oates ...

Narrated by Sarah Welborn ...

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6 hours 38 min

When a woman mysteriously vanishes, her sister must tally up the clues to discover her fate.Marguerite, a beautiful woman, has disappeared from her small town in Upstate New York. But is foul play involved? Or did she merely take an opportunity to get away for fun, or finally make the decision to leave behind her claustrophobic life of limited opportunities?Her younger sister Gigi wonders if the ... Read more

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When a woman mysteriously vanishes, her sister must tally up the clues to discover her fate.Marguerite, a beautiful woman, has disappeared from her small town in Upstate New York. But is foul play involved? Or did she merely take an opportunity to get away for fun, or finally make the decision to leave behind her claustrophobic life of limited opportunities?Her younger sister Gigi wonders if the
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Inland

A Novel

by Téa Obreht ...

Narrated by Anna Chlumsky, Edoardo Ballerini, Euan Morton ...

Unabridged

13 hours 7 min

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • “A bracingly epic and imaginatively mythic journey across the American West” (Entertainment Weekly), from the celebrated author of The Tiger’s Wife and The Morningside“Obreht’s simple but rich prose captures and luxuriates in the West’s beauty and sudden menace.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)... ... Read more

$22.50 USD

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • “A bracingly epic and imaginatively mythic journey across the American West” (Entertainment Weekly), from the celebrated author of The Tiger’s Wife and The Morningside“Obreht’s simple but rich prose captures and luxuriates in the West’s beauty and sudden menace.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)...
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All the Sinners Bleed

A Novel

by S. A. Cosby ...

Narrated by Adam Lazarre-White ...

Unabridged

13 hours 42 min

Winner of the 2024 Audie Award for Thriller/Suspense!"Lazarre-White masterfully portrays people of multiple races, old and young. He also delivers Cosby's reflections on family, grief, and faith with genuine introspection and without distracting from the tense plotlines...This is a gripping, timely tale—beautifully told." —AudioFile (Earphones Award winner)**The new novel from New York Times ... Read more

$28.99 USD

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Winner of the 2024 Audie Award for Thriller/Suspense!"Lazarre-White masterfully portrays people of multiple races, old and young. He also delivers Cosby's reflections on family, grief, and faith with genuine introspection and without distracting from the tense plotlines...This is a gripping, timely tale—beautifully told." —AudioFile (Earphones Award winner)**The new novel from New York Times
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The Sentence

by Louise Erdrich ...

Narrated by Louise Erdrich ...

Unabridged

11 hours 49 min

In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage, and of a woman's relentless errors.Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from ... Read more

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In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage, and of a woman's relentless errors.Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from
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Fayne

A Novel

by Ann-Marie MacDonald ...

Narrated by Ann-Marie MacDonald ...

Unabridged

30 hours 54 min

**THE INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2023 PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN PRIZE FOR FICTIONA GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF CBC’S BEST CANADIAN FICTION BOOKS OF 2022A beloved writer returns with a tale of science, magic, love and identity.**In the late nineteenth century, Charlotte Bell is growing up at Fayne, a vast and lonely estate straddling the border between England and ... Read more

$30.00 USD

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**THE INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2023 PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN PRIZE FOR FICTIONA GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF CBC’S BEST CANADIAN FICTION BOOKS OF 2022A beloved writer returns with a tale of science, magic, love and identity.**In the late nineteenth century, Charlotte Bell is growing up at Fayne, a vast and lonely estate straddling the border between England and
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