scholarly journals Functional Features of Onomastic Units in the Military Discourse of the Donbass Conflict

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 237-250
Author(s):  
Valery A. Amirov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
General Picture ◽  
Military Conflict ◽  
Military Discourse ◽  
Functional Aspects ◽  
The Media ◽  
Functional Features ◽  
The Military

The article explores the modalities and features of onomastic units in the media coverage of the Eastern Ukraine military conflict in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Based on large empirical data of printed and online publications in Russian and Ukrainian media reporting on the hostilities in Donbass extensively for several years, the author has collected, classified, and analyzed the corpus of onomastic units of the military media discourse. These include place names, such as Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR), Luganda, Donbabwe, Debaltsevo pocket, Ilovaysk pocket, ORDLO (“separate districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions”), Novorossiya, “Odessa Khatyn,” as well as the nicknames of field commanders that have become deeply associated with the conflict — Motorola, Bes, Givi. The study examines functional aspects of proper names usage in the media, and their role in shaping a general picture of the Donbass armed conflict for the readers. A special emphasis is made on the weight of onomastic units (militaronyms, toponyms, and anthroponyms) as constructive elements of the military discourse in Eastern Ukraine. In this regard, the presented analysis and its results can contribute to further studies of the media discourse related to armed conflicts of various etiologies and intensities.

scholarly journals Military Media Discourse of Newspapers during Siege of Sevastopol in 1941-1942

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-77
Author(s):  
Yuri Ershov ◽  
Tatiana Cherepanova
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Periodical Press ◽  
Military Discourse ◽  
Local Newspapers ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
The Military

The article presents the results of a research into military discourse via media texts about the Siege of Sevastopol. The topicality is determined by the insufficiency of studies of newspaper discourse of that period due to scarcity of available original materials. The novelty of the research is explained by introduction of new academic data about the characteristics of «The Krasnyi Chernomorets» paper, whose reporters worked at the battle-lines of Sevastopol offensive till the end of the siege. The characteristics in the focus of the authors’ interest are the spirit and the ideological implications of the media texts, as well as methods of all-out mobilization via the newspapers, and stylistic means of heroics in descriptions of the fighters’ and homefront workers’ behavior. The key method of study is a content analysis of the available original newspaper publications photocopied in the archive of rare editions. The aim was to select articles describing feats or heroic achievements of the military men and citizens of Sevastopol. Having studied hundreds of texts, the authors have also found differences in the set of expressive means used by journalists and reporters of the local newspapers and other media. One of the inferences suggests that periodical press as a social institute features a mechanism of mild self-regulation that enables journalists, in the time of a crisis, to reprogram their functions in order to produce heroics and encourage public consolidation.

The “Rape of Europe”: 2016 New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Cologne in hegemonic discourse of Russian media

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-154
Author(s):  
Tatiana Riabova ◽  
Oleg Riabov
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Sexual Assaults ◽  
The West ◽  
Hegemonic Discourse ◽  
Russian Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
New Year’S Eve ◽  
The Eu

The article deals with the Russian media coverage of sexual assaults against women during the 2016 New Year's Eve celebrations in Cologne. The authors examine it in the frame of discourse of “Gayropa” that represents the EU via changes in gender order of the West European societies. The pro-Kremlin media coverage of the “Rape of Europe” contributes to positioning Russia in the world, maintaining power legitimacy in the country, and supporting gender order in Russian society. The media discourse treats it as an evidence of decline of the European civilization.

scholarly journals Framing the Syrian Conflict in the Russian Federal Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 101 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-120
Author(s):  
L.M. Issaev ◽  
K.S. Eremeeva ◽  
A.R. Shishkina
Keyword(s):  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
General Picture ◽  
Syrian Crisis ◽  
Russian Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Syrian Conflict ◽  
The Military

The article analyzes features of the coverage of the Syrian conflict by the Russian media. Empirically, the study is based on the articles published in 2015—2019 in the most cited federal media resources — the online edition of RIA Novosti, as well as the newspapers Izvestia and Vedomos ti. The authors employ the method of the qualitative content analysis in the MAXQDA program. Given the extremely important role that framing plays in media resources, the authors focused on identifying key frames of coverage of the events in Syria, which allowed them to trace the main trends in presen ting these events, as well as document technologies and techniques used by the media to create political images related to the Syrian crisis. The research study showed that the collective frame of the Syrian conflict in the Russian media has the following features: (1) emphasis on the diplomatic component to the detriment of the military one; (b) demonization of the United States; (3) ignoring causes of the conflict; (4) anti-terrorism rhetoric. Two technologies were actively used in framing — the technology of fragmenting information, which prevents the formation of a general picture of what is going on, and the technology of attention distraction aimed at playing down coverage of the contro versial events, which violates the integrity of the frame by focusing on relatively insignificant and obvious events. According to the authors’ conclusion, despite all the efforts of the fede ral media, the Syrian operation of Russia failed to become a “small victorious war” that would provide a wave of patriotic mobilization in the country. With the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, the Syrian crisis has actually disappeared from the media agenda and is unlikely to make any significant contribution to changing the Russian information field in the future.

Going negative by metaphors: The Donbass conflict in the Russian and the Ukrainian press

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1 and 2-2018) ◽  
pp. 7-34
Author(s):  
Ganna Diedkova ◽  
Christ'l De Landtsheer
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Military Conflict ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Military Conflicts ◽  
Critical Metaphor Analysis ◽  
The Media ◽  
News Outlet ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Suitable Case

Previous research has established the importance of metaphors as conceptual devices (Semino, 2008; Zinken & Musolff, 2009). This article builds upon existing research and extends the insight into how media use metaphors in their coverage of military conflicts. The media coverage of the ongoing Eastern Ukrainian military conflict (Donbass conflict) presents a suitable case for this investigation. The strength of this study lies in the nature of the data that have been collected, namely articles that appeared in a Russian and a Ukrainian news outlet (September 2014 until January 2015) covering the same stories (same date, same event). Thereby, we investigate metaphor as a conceptual device and an element of framing that contributes to the distinct representation of the conflict in the selected outlets from the two countries. This research follows a qualitative research design, relying on Critical Metaphor Analysis (Charteris-Black, 2004), and Metaphor Power Taxonomy (De Landtsheer, 2015; Beer & De Landtsheer, 2004). We conclude that the selected Russian and Ukrainian media used metaphors for enemy construction, in particular the hostile imagery with “Colony” (Russian outlet) and “Fear” (Ukrainian outlet) as major source domains.

scholarly journals Fear Of Crime As One Of The Varieties And Non-Material Consequences

2019 ◽  
pp. 61-73
Author(s):  
I.B. Medytskyi
Keyword(s):  
Fear Of Crime ◽  
Criminal Policy ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Maximum Level ◽  
Mass Communications ◽  
Important Indicator ◽  
Military Conflict ◽  
The Media ◽  
Basic Approaches ◽  
The Military

The article substantiates the importance of criminological study of the intangible consequences of crime in general, and the fear of crime in particular. The level of fear of crime is an important indicator of the state’s ability to achieve the maximum level of security of the population, directly influencing criminal policy towards enhancing its repressive potential or liberalization. The basic approaches to the analysis of fear of crime in the modern science of criminology are considered. In the context of the victim approach, the importance of the media in the process of objective and competent informing of the population of crime and its main characteristics, which is accompanied by consequences in the form of increasing / decreasing level of concern / fear of the society against crime, is revealed. The position of «criminological control» over mass communications is supported, which will help to improve victim’s security of citizens. Based on relevant sociological data, it is concluded that the fear of crime, by the importance of the problem for the population, is inferior to the desire to resolve the military conflict in the East of Ukraine and the realization of socio-economic wishes and interests.  

scholarly journals Media as a Transmitter of Information Provided by Armed Forces, the State and Terrorist Organisations in Armed Conflicts and Terrorist Attacks

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Tomasz Bąk
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Terrorist Attack ◽  
Television News ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
The State ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
The Media ◽  
Terrorist Acts

Abstract The article deals with issues related to the media as a relay of information provided by the armed forces, the state and terrorist organizations, in armed conflicts and terrorist acts. It contains two main subchapters, namely: the first on the role of the media in armed conflicts and terrorist acts, and the second describing the use of media by terrorists. There is no doubt that almost every ongoing armed conflict or terrorist attack can count on a broad media coverage. It is an event that neither news agencies, broadcasters of television news services, nor print media publishers can miss. The text mentions the basic models of behavior of state authorities in this matter of informing the public about events such as warfare or terrorist attack. Forms of providing information from conflict regions or terrorist activities by contemporary journalism have also been described. There was also information about the role of the Internet in the process of reporting the course of the war. An important part of the article is to describe the media strategy in relation to this type of event. The summary concludes on the role of mass media in contemporary armed conflict and the terrorist attack.

scholarly journals Mainstream Media Discourse! Or the Divine Word of the Postmodern?

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-73
Author(s):  
Yasser Rhimi
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
The Other ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Investigative Reporting ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Objective Truth ◽  
Exponential Increase ◽  
The Media ◽  
Ultimate Ground

Abstract This paper calls into question the growing tendency of quasi-absolutism within postmodern mainstream media discourse under the guise of objectivity. The tendency’s major aim is to ascribe more believability to its discourse by re-presenting that which it covers as the vehicle of objective truth to the mainstream audience. Two interweaving discourses have marked such objectivity: one in the form of indoctrinating and omnipresent narratives, which via effective propaganda become tantamount to ritualism, the other epitomised in the nostalgia for rationalisation, already inherent in western positivist thought through the exponential increase of quasi-empiricism (e.g. investigative reporting or speculative statistics). Accordingly, what the media cover exists. What they do not remains in the order of myth. The article starts by rethinking objectivity within modern western academia, a discourse whose objectivity is already flawed from within. Then, with respect to human experience and media coverage, the paper concludes by raising the question of postmodern mainstream media’s substitution of religious quasi-absolutist narratives, be they secular or non-secular. Subjectivity thus emerges as the ultimate ground upon which our being may be legitimate.

scholarly journals Prawne aspekty konfliktu zbrojnego na Ukrainie jako przykład wojny hybrydowej

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 283-302
Author(s):  
Paweł Ochmann ◽  
Jakub Wojas
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Public International Law ◽  
Military Conflict ◽  
The Public ◽  
Proxy War ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Hybrid War ◽  
The Military

The term ‘hybrid war’ has not been defined in the public international law. However, it is commonly used in the media, by politicians and also by academics in scientific discourses.The article raises the question of  whether it is justified to use the term ʻhybrid war’ in reference to the military conflict in Ukraine. The authors scrutinise to what extent the situation in Ukraine meets the criteria of a ʻhybrid war’. Therefore, they try to define the term and describe its distinctive characteristics. Then, successive developments in Ukraine are analysed and compared with the characteristics. The article focuses on the role of the Dontsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic, and their dependence on the Russian Federation. According to the authors, they are examples of actions conducted by proxies – the so called proxy war. This is the most important proof of the hybrid nature of the conflict in Ukraine. The authors also consider the responsibility of Russia for the actions of these separatist republics and wonder how to prevent the consequences of this conflict.

scholarly journals Representation of migrants in the Russian mass media and its dynamics (2010-2020)

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 22-40
Author(s):  
Olga A. Iakimova
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Explanatory Models ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Russian Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
High Level

Over the last decades, scholars have reported a high level of xenophobia in Russia, which persists and spreads amidst all strata of the population. This shows the significance of the migration issue in the country and its topicality in the public discourse. However, the explanatory models used to analyze the perception of immigrants in Western countries do not find absolute empirical support in Russia. For this reason, researchers emphasize the importance of media discourse as a leading factor in constructing attitudes toward the foreign migrants in Russia. We take into account, firstly, the persistence of xenophobic attitudes among Russians, and secondly — the role of the migrants’ image, constructed by mass media, in shaping the perception of the immigrants among the locals. In this regard, this article hypothesizes that despite the official ban of the “hate language” and ethnization of crime, the negative representation of immigrants not only persists in the Russian media discourse, but is unfortunately increasing. To test this hypothesis, we utilize the results of research on the representation of immigration in Russian media discourse published between 2010 and 2020, which we analyze in the methodological framework of critical discourse analysis. We conclude that at the end of the current decade, there have been certain improvements in the media coverage of the migration issue, caused by the shift of the spotlight onto other problems, thus, the negative images of immigrants simply were not a part of the media agenda. On the one hand, this can help reduce ethnic tensions, although on the other, it complicates the development of the culture of interaction between the local and immigrant communities, since the national and cultural characteristics of migrants and their experience of living in Russia remain underrepresented in the media.

scholarly journals Peculiarities of aeromedical evacuation of wounded and sick and ways of its improvement based on the experience of anti-terrorist operation and joint forces operation

2020 ◽  
pp. 45-50
Author(s):  
V. Yu. Babii ◽  
A. V. Verba ◽  
S. M. Pashkovskyi
Keyword(s):  
Global Analysis ◽  
Functional Model ◽  
Statistical Process ◽  
Military Conflict ◽  
Aeromedical Evacuation ◽  
Medical Evacuation ◽  
Joint Forces ◽  
Functional Features ◽  
The Military

The article is describing general principles of organization of aeromedical evacuation of the patients by helicopters directly from the battlefield area. The number and nature of casualties caused by military aggression determined the organizational and functional features of aeromedical evacuation from the zone of military conflict. The purpose of the study is to investigate demographic, clinical, chronometric and economic indicators of air medical evacuation from the zone of military conflict and between hospitals within Ukraine to create, based on their global analysis, the optimal organizational and functional model of air medical evacuation in Ukraine. Created database, which filled out from various sources. Leading syndromes grouped the diagnoses with which the patients transported. Method of analysis known as an XmR chart used to study dynamic of the aeromedical evacuation process, which is one tool from a collection of methods known as statistical process control. The aeromedical evacuation system must be able to evacuate a sufficiently large number of stable patients from anywhere on the line of contact, and be flexible to respond in the event of a relatively small number of very unstable patients in the area of hostilities who need to be evacuated quickly enough. The obtained statistics can be useful for short- and medium-term planning of the aeromedical evacuation service. The configuration and operation of aeromedical units always depends on the nature and specificity of the military conflict, but the planning of deployment and determination of requirements of means for aeromedical evacuation should always base on the analysis of previous experience.

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