Triin Vihalemm
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 167578 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Triin Vihalemm |
| NOMBRES | Triin |
| APELLIDO | Vihalemm |
| FIRMA | VIHALEMM T |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Tartu |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6773-1332 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 165 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
What's worse, communism or carbon? Using the Transitions Delphi approach to identify viable interventions for the Estonian energy transition
Media engagement during Russia’s war against Ukraine
The contribution explores the contested relationship with media among young Russian-speaking Estonians from migrant family backgrounds since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Our analysis sheds light on how the war context, characterized by the securitization of Russian state-controlled media usage and ideological tensions within the Estonian Russian-speaking community, impacts the media-related perceptions and practices of young Russian-speaking Est…
They say we are all zombies
This article contributes to the conceptualization of international conflict mediatization through the lenses of ‘audience logic’ instead of the usual ‘media logic’ perspective. The former is defined here as beliefs about the workings of the media system that are held by audiences and constructions of their own identities as media users. The empirical analysis is about strategies used by Baltic Russian-speakers in making sense of media and news du…
Media, miners and the injustices of sustainable transition in North-East Estonia
The transition to sustainable energy creates injustices, such as job losses in the fossil fuel sector. Not addressing the problems of those hit by transitional injustices increases the political risks of pro-environmental decision-making and undermines sustainable transition. A just transition in the energy system does not happen in isolation, but rather in interaction with other social systems. This analysis approaches the issue from the standpo…
Systems and practices
How Baltic Russian-speaking audiences outmaneuver securitization, essentialization, and polarization in times of crisis
This article addresses transnational media use of Baltic Russian-speaking audiences that is often problematized in the public discourse as an inhibiting factor of their local integration and a threat to the national security of Estonian and Latvian societies. The authors operationalize a theoretical model of synergistic and antagonistic relationship between transnationalism and local integration drawing on the media use of Baltic Russian speakers…
Understanding whole school physical activity transition from a practice theory perspective
Purpose In this study, the authors offer a practice theory framing of school physical activity transition with conceptual and managerial contributions to whole school approaches (WSAs). Design/methodology/approach Based on a literature overview of the limitations of WSA, ecological and systems theorisation and a practice theory framing of physical activity, the authors introduce a model that identifies signs of practice transition and conceptuali…
Developing a comprehensive school-based physical activity program with flexible design – from pilot to national program
This article focuses on the process of designing the vital, participatory school-based intervention program aiming to increase the physical activity in schools. The program analyzed is Estonian nationwide comprehensive physical activity program Schools in Motion (SiM) that recently received European Commission's #BeActive Education Award. The program has a good performance in terms of willingness of schools to participate in co-creation of progra…
Keeping channels open or screening out? The digital practices of Baltic Russian-speakers during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Inspired by Couldry’s conceptualisation of media-related practices, the authors investigate the ways Baltic Russian-speakers manage their digital information-seeking (sources of news) practices and interaction (communication partners). Amidst the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the ensuing tensions between Russia and the West, we consider how these digital practices lead to ideological heterogeneity or homogeneity. The conflict between Russia and Ukr…
Navigating Conflicts through the Media
This article contributes to the scholarly discussions about the self-responsibilization, defined as a configuration of understandings and action strategies oriented to compensate the (perceived) dysfunctionality of the media system, of audience members in East European societies. The authors argue that audience members’ sceptical and self-reliant stance towards political news, which were planted in Soviet times, continue today in the context of m…
Sense-making of conflicting political news among Baltic Russian-speaking audiences
This article offers a theoretically explained model for analysing the strategies of vernacular sense-making used by transnational audiences in times of political disagreement. The analysis proceeds from the findings of earlier studies that reveal that audience members interpret news in a geopolitically indoctrinated manner despite their exposure to alternative information from geopolitically opposing sources and their general critical stance towa…
Digital humor against essentialization
Identity and Media-use Strategies of the Estonian and Latvian Russian-speaking Populations Amid Political Crisis
In this essay, we examine the connections between media use and trust strategies, and the identity development of the Russian-speaking populations in Estonia and Latvia in the context of the political crisis in Ukraine. We argue against the levelling, uniform view of Russian-speaking audiences as being completely under the influence of Russian media and thereby politically identifying themselves with the Kremlin. We present a typology of Russian-…
Measuring society's temporal synchronization via days of importance
This article approaches public holidays, anniversaries and other days of importance as temporal synchronization mechanisms of society through generating pauses and interrupting the routines and schedules of the daily lives of large groups of people. The authors explain the possibilities of the empirical measurement of the synchronization of pauses in society via sociological surveys, by asking about the personal celebration of particular days of …
Practice change and interventions into consumers’ everyday lives
This chapter focuses on particular issues for an intervention designer, taking social practice theory (SPT) as the basis. SPT literature conceptualizes consumption as a &s;moment in everyday practices&s;. Sustainability and health-oriented social change is always a mix of more wide-ranging political agreements and more local programmes and everyday steps towards these goals, sometimes with significant results and sometimes with none whatsoever. S…
Consumers, citizens or citizen-consumers? Domestic users in the process of Estonian electricity market liberalization
The paradox of National Language acquisition
This paper analyzes the changes in the labor market positions of Soviet-era Russian-speaking immigrants and their descendants in Estonia in 1992–2008. More specifically, it explains how the knowledge of Estonian connects with evaluations of changes of market positions. The Estonian case shows that the language policy intervention undertaken in the context of a fundamental transformation of the market structure in the 1990s paradoxically yielded r…
Why the transformation of the risk message is a healthy sign
In this article, we examine the communication of health risks caused by technological and natural disasters to the public. Contrary to the commonly accepted view, we argue that in the context of the risk society, the transformation and multiplication of risk messages among the public is a healthy sign. We aim to show how the recipients of risk communication can overcome the confusion that emanates from the inevitable contradictions of warning mes…
Jätkusuutlik keelepoliitika
SISSEJUHATUS Käesolevat artiklit ajendas meid kirjutama mure eesti keele jätkusuutlikkuse pärast XXI sajandil ühiskonna kommunikatsioonisüsteemi osana. Eesti Vabariigi põhiseaduse preambul sätestab, et Eesti keelepoliitika juhtivaks printsiibiks on eesti rahvuse, keele ja kultuuri jätkusuutlikkus. Seatud eesmärk annab võimalusi erinevateks tõlgendusteks. Praegune Eesti keelepoliitiline diskursus, mis avaneb seadustekstides, arenguprogrammides nin…
Dilemmas of Estonian nation building in the open media market / Probleme estnischer Nationsbildung im offenen Medienmarkt / L’édification de la nation et le libre marché des médias en Estonie
Die Mediennutzung in Estland hat sich als resistent erwiesen gegen die Etablierung des Estnischen als gemeinsamer Sprache im öffentlichen Raum. Bis zum heutigen Tag nutzt die russischsprachige Minderheit Estlands meist Medien in russischer Sprache. Die Sprachgrenze zeigt sich auch in den Praktiken der inhaltlichen Wahl gruppenspezifischer Medien sowie auf staatlicher Ebene (Republik Estland vs. Russische Föderation). Somit ist die Informationssph…
Representations of the past in the Estonian Russian-language press
The article discusses the much-debated issue of collective identity among the Estonian Russian-speaking population from a different prism – based on representations of the past in the local Russian-language press in 2009. Assuming that representations of the past offer references for present-day identity construction, the study is aimed at revealing which identity patterns were supported and which were rejected by journalists and other speakers i…
Looking Russian or Estonian
This paper discusses how transnational consumer culture, specifically clothing fashion, is adapted for the formation of local inter-ethnic relations in Estonia and how this practice has changed over time, resulting in different repertoires on consumption in the Soviet era and today. Based on informant interviews with Estonian and Russian students, we analysed young people's reciprocal representations of clothing style, accessories, and brand choi…
Cultural Differentiation of the Russian Minority
Notes Notes 1 Our analysis covers not only people with Russian ethnic or linguistic origin but also Ukrainians, Belorussians and other ethnicities. In Estonia there are about 406,700 people (30% of the population) whose mother tongue is Russian, among them about 351,200 are ethnic Russians (ESA 2001 ESA. 2001. 2000 Population and Housing Census: Citizenship, Nationality, Mother Tongue and Command of Foreign Languages, Tallinn: Statistical Office …
Patterns of continuity and disruption
This article analyzes inter-generational continuity and cultural reproduction in three transitional countries: Estonia, Latvia and the Czech Republic. We compare the levels of internalization of factor structures of self-identification and values among young people and older generations. We focus specifically on a comparison of young people representing the two main ethno-linguistic groups in Estonia and Latvia: ethnic Estonians, or Latvians, and…
Mental Structures in Transition Culture
Based on the concept of transition culture, the article discusses patterns of generational continuity and disruption in post-Soviet Estonia. We suggest a tool for meso-level analysis: factor structures of self-identification and value orientations. The empirical analysis of population survey data collected in 2005 shows that such mental structures have significant correlations with indices of perceptions about social changes and everyday social a…
Cultural Differentiation of the Russian Minority
Notes Notes 1 Our analysis covers not only people with Russian ethnic or linguistic origin but also Ukrainians, Belorussians and other ethnicities. In Estonia there are about 406,700 people (30% of the population) whose mother tongue is Russian, among them about 351,200 are ethnic Russians (ESA 2001 ESA. 2001. 2000 Population and Housing Census: Citizenship, Nationality, Mother Tongue and Command of Foreign Languages, Tallinn: Statistical Office …
Identity and Media-use Strategies of the Estonian and Latvian Russian-speaking Populations Amid Political Crisis
In this essay, we examine the connections between media use and trust strategies, and the identity development of the Russian-speaking populations in Estonia and Latvia in the context of the political crisis in Ukraine. We argue against the levelling, uniform view of Russian-speaking audiences as being completely under the influence of Russian media and thereby politically identifying themselves with the Kremlin. We present a typology of Russian-…
(Re)Construction of Collective Identities after the Dissolution of the Soviet Union
The paper will focus on the structures of collective identities of the Russian-speaking population of Estonia. Particular cultural and political orientations held by individuals and frequencies of self-categorization as Russian, ex-Soviet, citizens of Estonia, etc. have been discussed extensively. Much less attention has been paid to the structures of self-identification, which draw out people's thinking patterns. The paper is based on the method…
Group identity formation processes among Russian-speaking settlers of Estonia
(1999). Group identity formation processes among Russian-speaking settlers of Estonia: A linguistic perspective. Journal of Baltic Studies: Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 18-39
Return to the `Consuming West
This article looks at how young people in post-communist Estonia attribute meaning to consumer goods and to the development of consumption during the last decade. The empirical material comprises 45 qualitatively analysed student essays and 25 in-depth interviews. The authors arrange the material onto two main axes: the temporal axis of Estonian transformation and the spatial axis of Estonia (including the memory of Soviet Estonia) versus today's…
Looking Russian or Estonian
This paper discusses how transnational consumer culture, specifically clothing fashion, is adapted for the formation of local inter-ethnic relations in Estonia and how this practice has changed over time, resulting in different repertoires on consumption in the Soviet era and today. Based on informant interviews with Estonian and Russian students, we analysed young people's reciprocal representations of clothing style, accessories, and brand choi…
Mental Structures in Transition Culture
Based on the concept of transition culture, the article discusses patterns of generational continuity and disruption in post-Soviet Estonia. We suggest a tool for meso-level analysis: factor structures of self-identification and value orientations. The empirical analysis of population survey data collected in 2005 shows that such mental structures have significant correlations with indices of perceptions about social changes and everyday social a…
Identity dynamics of Russian-speakers of Estonia in the transition period
The question of the development of the identity of those of the Russian diaspora in various post-Soviet independent states has attracted many scholars. With this article the authors would like to join the discussion by exploring the strategies used for retrospective self-designation and creation of boundaries between “us” and “them” of younger Russian-speakers1 living in Estonia. The authors consider that there are good preconditions for the rise…
Distinct mental structures in transitional culture
This article examines the structures of value consciousness and self-identification in two EU countries: Estonia, a representative transitional society, and Sweden, a representative stable welfare society. The study is an attempt to operationalize Sztompka's concept of “cultural templates” on the meso-level of analysis, by revealing latent mental structures. Our main conclusion is that the transitional culture in Estonia can be characterized by t…
Crystallizing and Emancipating Identities in Post-Communist Estonia
This article concerns collective identities in the context of EU enlargement and the post-Soviet transition of Estonian society, particularly of the two main ethno-linguistic groups: ethnic Estonians and the Russian-speaking population in Estonia. The empirical basis of the study is formed by factor structures of self-identification. The data were obtained from nationally representative surveys carried out in 2002, before Estonia joined the EU, a…
Systems and practices
Digital humor against essentialization
Measuring society's temporal synchronization via days of importance
This article approaches public holidays, anniversaries and other days of importance as temporal synchronization mechanisms of society through generating pauses and interrupting the routines and schedules of the daily lives of large groups of people. The authors explain the possibilities of the empirical measurement of the synchronization of pauses in society via sociological surveys, by asking about the personal celebration of particular days of …
The formation of imagined borders in post‐Soviet Estonia
This paper focuses to the development of the collective identity of Russian diaspora in transformational Estonia after dissolution of Soviet Union. The case represents the situation in which not only the previous state borders but the the whole political system have changed. The paper analyzes the acceptance and rejection of the collective identification categories. The results indicate limited acceptance of the identification ideologies suggeste…
They say we are all zombies
This article contributes to the conceptualization of international conflict mediatization through the lenses of ‘audience logic’ instead of the usual ‘media logic’ perspective. The former is defined here as beliefs about the workings of the media system that are held by audiences and constructions of their own identities as media users. The empirical analysis is about strategies used by Baltic Russian-speakers in making sense of media and news du…
How Baltic Russian-speaking audiences outmaneuver securitization, essentialization, and polarization in times of crisis
This article addresses transnational media use of Baltic Russian-speaking audiences that is often problematized in the public discourse as an inhibiting factor of their local integration and a threat to the national security of Estonian and Latvian societies. The authors operationalize a theoretical model of synergistic and antagonistic relationship between transnationalism and local integration drawing on the media use of Baltic Russian speakers…
Keeping channels open or screening out? The digital practices of Baltic Russian-speakers during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Inspired by Couldry’s conceptualisation of media-related practices, the authors investigate the ways Baltic Russian-speakers manage their digital information-seeking (sources of news) practices and interaction (communication partners). Amidst the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the ensuing tensions between Russia and the West, we consider how these digital practices lead to ideological heterogeneity or homogeneity. The conflict between Russia and Ukr…
Navigating Conflicts through the Media
This article contributes to the scholarly discussions about the self-responsibilization, defined as a configuration of understandings and action strategies oriented to compensate the (perceived) dysfunctionality of the media system, of audience members in East European societies. The authors argue that audience members’ sceptical and self-reliant stance towards political news, which were planted in Soviet times, continue today in the context of m…
Sense-making of conflicting political news among Baltic Russian-speaking audiences
This article offers a theoretically explained model for analysing the strategies of vernacular sense-making used by transnational audiences in times of political disagreement. The analysis proceeds from the findings of earlier studies that reveal that audience members interpret news in a geopolitically indoctrinated manner despite their exposure to alternative information from geopolitically opposing sources and their general critical stance towa…
Representations of the past in the Estonian Russian-language press
The article discusses the much-debated issue of collective identity among the Estonian Russian-speaking population from a different prism – based on representations of the past in the local Russian-language press in 2009. Assuming that representations of the past offer references for present-day identity construction, the study is aimed at revealing which identity patterns were supported and which were rejected by journalists and other speakers i…
Estonian language competence, performance, and beliefs on acquisition among the Russian-speaking inhabitants of Estonia, 1989-1997
Article Estonian language competence, performance, and beliefs on acquisition among the Russian-speaking inhabitants of Estonia, 1989-1997 was published on January 1, 1999 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1999, issue 139)
Media, miners and the injustices of sustainable transition in North-East Estonia
The transition to sustainable energy creates injustices, such as job losses in the fossil fuel sector. Not addressing the problems of those hit by transitional injustices increases the political risks of pro-environmental decision-making and undermines sustainable transition. A just transition in the energy system does not happen in isolation, but rather in interaction with other social systems. This analysis approaches the issue from the standpo…
Consumers, citizens or citizen-consumers? Domestic users in the process of Estonian electricity market liberalization
Patterns of continuity and disruption
This article analyzes inter-generational continuity and cultural reproduction in three transitional countries: Estonia, Latvia and the Czech Republic. We compare the levels of internalization of factor structures of self-identification and values among young people and older generations. We focus specifically on a comparison of young people representing the two main ethno-linguistic groups in Estonia and Latvia: ethnic Estonians, or Latvians, and…
What's worse, communism or carbon? Using the Transitions Delphi approach to identify viable interventions for the Estonian energy transition
Group identity formation processes among Russian-speaking settlers of Estonia
(1999). Group identity formation processes among Russian-speaking settlers of Estonia: A linguistic perspective. Journal of Baltic Studies: Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 18-39
Estonian language competence, performance, and beliefs on acquisition among the Russian-speaking inhabitants of Estonia, 1989-1997
Article Estonian language competence, performance, and beliefs on acquisition among the Russian-speaking inhabitants of Estonia, 1989-1997 was published on January 1, 1999 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1999, issue 139)
The formation of imagined borders in post‐Soviet Estonia
This paper focuses to the development of the collective identity of Russian diaspora in transformational Estonia after dissolution of Soviet Union. The case represents the situation in which not only the previous state borders but the the whole political system have changed. The paper analyzes the acceptance and rejection of the collective identification categories. The results indicate limited acceptance of the identification ideologies suggeste…
Return to the `Consuming West
This article looks at how young people in post-communist Estonia attribute meaning to consumer goods and to the development of consumption during the last decade. The empirical material comprises 45 qualitatively analysed student essays and 25 in-depth interviews. The authors arrange the material onto two main axes: the temporal axis of Estonian transformation and the spatial axis of Estonia (including the memory of Soviet Estonia) versus today's…
Identity dynamics of Russian-speakers of Estonia in the transition period
The question of the development of the identity of those of the Russian diaspora in various post-Soviet independent states has attracted many scholars. With this article the authors would like to join the discussion by exploring the strategies used for retrospective self-designation and creation of boundaries between “us” and “them” of younger Russian-speakers1 living in Estonia. The authors consider that there are good preconditions for the rise…
Coping With Consumer Culture
The article discusses representations of consumer culture in today's Estonia by elderly urban consumers. The study, which draws on 30 original interviews with urban consumers over 45 years of age, outlines the clashes between the Soviet consumer culture and its current counterpart. We place the analysis within the framework of Simmel's objective and subjective culture, as well as within that of several sociological and anthropological studies. Ba…
Distinct mental structures in transitional culture
This article examines the structures of value consciousness and self-identification in two EU countries: Estonia, a representative transitional society, and Sweden, a representative stable welfare society. The study is an attempt to operationalize Sztompka's concept of “cultural templates” on the meso-level of analysis, by revealing latent mental structures. Our main conclusion is that the transitional culture in Estonia can be characterized by t…
(Re)Construction of Collective Identities after the Dissolution of the Soviet Union
The paper will focus on the structures of collective identities of the Russian-speaking population of Estonia. Particular cultural and political orientations held by individuals and frequencies of self-categorization as Russian, ex-Soviet, citizens of Estonia, etc. have been discussed extensively. Much less attention has been paid to the structures of self-identification, which draw out people's thinking patterns. The paper is based on the method…
Crystallizing and Emancipating Identities in Post-Communist Estonia
This article concerns collective identities in the context of EU enlargement and the post-Soviet transition of Estonian society, particularly of the two main ethno-linguistic groups: ethnic Estonians and the Russian-speaking population in Estonia. The empirical basis of the study is formed by factor structures of self-identification. The data were obtained from nationally representative surveys carried out in 2002, before Estonia joined the EU, a…
Patterns of continuity and disruption
This article analyzes inter-generational continuity and cultural reproduction in three transitional countries: Estonia, Latvia and the Czech Republic. We compare the levels of internalization of factor structures of self-identification and values among young people and older generations. We focus specifically on a comparison of young people representing the two main ethno-linguistic groups in Estonia and Latvia: ethnic Estonians, or Latvians, and…
Mental Structures in Transition Culture
Based on the concept of transition culture, the article discusses patterns of generational continuity and disruption in post-Soviet Estonia. We suggest a tool for meso-level analysis: factor structures of self-identification and value orientations. The empirical analysis of population survey data collected in 2005 shows that such mental structures have significant correlations with indices of perceptions about social changes and everyday social a…
Cultural Differentiation of the Russian Minority
Notes Notes 1 Our analysis covers not only people with Russian ethnic or linguistic origin but also Ukrainians, Belorussians and other ethnicities. In Estonia there are about 406,700 people (30% of the population) whose mother tongue is Russian, among them about 351,200 are ethnic Russians (ESA 2001 ESA. 2001. 2000 Population and Housing Census: Citizenship, Nationality, Mother Tongue and Command of Foreign Languages, Tallinn: Statistical Office …
Representations of the past in the Estonian Russian-language press
The article discusses the much-debated issue of collective identity among the Estonian Russian-speaking population from a different prism – based on representations of the past in the local Russian-language press in 2009. Assuming that representations of the past offer references for present-day identity construction, the study is aimed at revealing which identity patterns were supported and which were rejected by journalists and other speakers i…
Looking Russian or Estonian
This paper discusses how transnational consumer culture, specifically clothing fashion, is adapted for the formation of local inter-ethnic relations in Estonia and how this practice has changed over time, resulting in different repertoires on consumption in the Soviet era and today. Based on informant interviews with Estonian and Russian students, we analysed young people's reciprocal representations of clothing style, accessories, and brand choi…
Jätkusuutlik keelepoliitika
SISSEJUHATUS Käesolevat artiklit ajendas meid kirjutama mure eesti keele jätkusuutlikkuse pärast XXI sajandil ühiskonna kommunikatsioonisüsteemi osana. Eesti Vabariigi põhiseaduse preambul sätestab, et Eesti keelepoliitika juhtivaks printsiibiks on eesti rahvuse, keele ja kultuuri jätkusuutlikkus. Seatud eesmärk annab võimalusi erinevateks tõlgendusteks. Praegune Eesti keelepoliitiline diskursus, mis avaneb seadustekstides, arenguprogrammides nin…
Dilemmas of Estonian nation building in the open media market / Probleme estnischer Nationsbildung im offenen Medienmarkt / L’édification de la nation et le libre marché des médias en Estonie
Die Mediennutzung in Estland hat sich als resistent erwiesen gegen die Etablierung des Estnischen als gemeinsamer Sprache im öffentlichen Raum. Bis zum heutigen Tag nutzt die russischsprachige Minderheit Estlands meist Medien in russischer Sprache. Die Sprachgrenze zeigt sich auch in den Praktiken der inhaltlichen Wahl gruppenspezifischer Medien sowie auf staatlicher Ebene (Republik Estland vs. Russische Föderation). Somit ist die Informationssph…
Why the transformation of the risk message is a healthy sign
In this article, we examine the communication of health risks caused by technological and natural disasters to the public. Contrary to the commonly accepted view, we argue that in the context of the risk society, the transformation and multiplication of risk messages among the public is a healthy sign. We aim to show how the recipients of risk communication can overcome the confusion that emanates from the inevitable contradictions of warning mes…
Consumers, citizens or citizen-consumers? Domestic users in the process of Estonian electricity market liberalization
The paradox of National Language acquisition
This paper analyzes the changes in the labor market positions of Soviet-era Russian-speaking immigrants and their descendants in Estonia in 1992–2008. More specifically, it explains how the knowledge of Estonian connects with evaluations of changes of market positions. The Estonian case shows that the language policy intervention undertaken in the context of a fundamental transformation of the market structure in the 1990s paradoxically yielded r…
Practice change and interventions into consumers’ everyday lives
This chapter focuses on particular issues for an intervention designer, taking social practice theory (SPT) as the basis. SPT literature conceptualizes consumption as a &s;moment in everyday practices&s;. Sustainability and health-oriented social change is always a mix of more wide-ranging political agreements and more local programmes and everyday steps towards these goals, sometimes with significant results and sometimes with none whatsoever. S…
Identity and Media-use Strategies of the Estonian and Latvian Russian-speaking Populations Amid Political Crisis
In this essay, we examine the connections between media use and trust strategies, and the identity development of the Russian-speaking populations in Estonia and Latvia in the context of the political crisis in Ukraine. We argue against the levelling, uniform view of Russian-speaking audiences as being completely under the influence of Russian media and thereby politically identifying themselves with the Kremlin. We present a typology of Russian-…
Measuring society's temporal synchronization via days of importance
This article approaches public holidays, anniversaries and other days of importance as temporal synchronization mechanisms of society through generating pauses and interrupting the routines and schedules of the daily lives of large groups of people. The authors explain the possibilities of the empirical measurement of the synchronization of pauses in society via sociological surveys, by asking about the personal celebration of particular days of …
Keeping channels open or screening out? The digital practices of Baltic Russian-speakers during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Inspired by Couldry’s conceptualisation of media-related practices, the authors investigate the ways Baltic Russian-speakers manage their digital information-seeking (sources of news) practices and interaction (communication partners). Amidst the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the ensuing tensions between Russia and the West, we consider how these digital practices lead to ideological heterogeneity or homogeneity. The conflict between Russia and Ukr…
Navigating Conflicts through the Media
This article contributes to the scholarly discussions about the self-responsibilization, defined as a configuration of understandings and action strategies oriented to compensate the (perceived) dysfunctionality of the media system, of audience members in East European societies. The authors argue that audience members’ sceptical and self-reliant stance towards political news, which were planted in Soviet times, continue today in the context of m…
Sense-making of conflicting political news among Baltic Russian-speaking audiences
This article offers a theoretically explained model for analysing the strategies of vernacular sense-making used by transnational audiences in times of political disagreement. The analysis proceeds from the findings of earlier studies that reveal that audience members interpret news in a geopolitically indoctrinated manner despite their exposure to alternative information from geopolitically opposing sources and their general critical stance towa…
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