Ellen Mickiewicz
Biographic Data
| ID | 247146 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ellen Mickiewicz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ellen |
| FAMILY NAME | Mickiewicz |
| SIGNATURE | MICKIEWICZ E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 165 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Central Television, written by Christine E. Evans
Critical Review
In two important books, Runet (the Russian internet) is the central character, an essential component of the politics of commerce, economic policy, and strategic thinking. The first, written by an American specialist on information policy and the interaction between society and technology, looks back to the Soviet era, at the prescience and then failure of top Soviet scientists to introduce the networked society ahead of their American counterpar…
Efficacy and Evidence: Evaluating U.S. Goals at the American National Exhibition in Moscow, 1959
The American National Exhibition in Moscow (ANEM) in 1959 during the administration of Dwight Eisenhower was intended to show the adversary “a corner of America” and the abundance and technological advances produced by the United States. Neither before nor since has a cultural-diplomatic initiative of similar scale, cost, and bureaucratic and international complexity been attempted. Some former U.S. officials maintain to this day that the success…
Does ‘trust’ mean attention, comprehension and acceptance?: Paradoxes of Russian viewers’ news processing
The Social Construction of Russia's Resurgence: Aspirations, Identity, and Security Interests - By Anne L. Clunan
Response to W. Lance Bennett's Review of Television, Power, and the Public in Russia
W. Lance Bennett is rightly pessimistic about a state with government-run mass media, on the one hand, and unchecked corruption, on the other. The massive and partially acknowledged corruption operates menacingly at all levels of society, a phenomenon mainly of the post-Soviet period. And the situation is bound to worsen as the economic crisis grows. However, it is unlikely that this decade of rampant corruption is the source of most heuristics t…
Television, Power, and the Public in Russia
The Russian media are widely seen to be increasingly controlled by the government. Leaders buy up dissenting television channels and pour money in as fast as it haemorrhages out. As a result, TV news has become narrower in scope and in the range of viewpoints which it reflects: leaders demand assimilation and shut down dissenting stations. Using original and extensive focus group research and new developments in cognitive theory, Ellen Mickiewicz…
Media and the politics of failure: Great powers, communication strategies, and military defeats
Thomas C. Wolfe, Governing Soviet Journalism: The Press and the Socialist Person after Stalin
January 01 2008 Thomas C. Wolfe, Governing Soviet Journalism: The Press and the Socialist Person after Stalin Ellen Mickiewicz Ellen Mickiewicz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Ellen Mickiewicz Online Issn: 1531-3298 Print Issn: 1520-3972 © 2008 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2008 Journal of Cold War Studies (2008) 10 (1): 147–149. https://doi.org/10.1162/jcws.2008.10.1.147 Ci…
The Election News Story on Russian Television: A World Apart from Viewers
Winning elections is so vital for Russian leaders that competing viewpoints on national television news channels have been scotched, together with the channels that broadcast them. This study examines the other side of the screen: how participants in focus groups in four Russian cities process national channels' treatments of an important regional electoral campaign. The study was conducted during the last period in which viewpoint diversity was …
Excavating Concealed Tradeoffs: How Russians Watch the News
Citizens in democracies are expected to make better decisions if they understand policy tradeoffs. However, politicians rarely have incentives to communicate them; citizens are uncomfortable choosing among valued outcomes; and devising a common metric is difficult. It is not surprising that in the United States the environment provides relatively little cuing or priming of tradeoffs in television news. Russian citizens, on the other hand, face a …
Piracy, Policy, and Russia's Emerging Media Market
The birth of a media market in Russia affords a unique opportunity to study the collision of international and national norms and practices. The refraction of globalization—involving, in this case, copyright protection and the program market—through local values and the rather different outcomes of sanctions and market inducements emerge as critical issues. The players in this drama are major and independent U.S. movie studios and trade organizat…
Dedication
Changing Channels on the Most Powerful Medium
Only four and-a-half years had passed between the 1990 May Day parade and the winter of the Chechen war. On May Day Mikhail Gorbachev was surprised by the public’s hostility, and during Chechnya Boris Yeltsin was surprised by the low impact of his information policy. In both cases, the events taking place in a single, delimited space became nationally significant, in large part because of television. The old ways-on the screen and in the polity-d…
Closely Watched Targets: The Nightly News, the Military, and Lenin
Television reflected and conferred status. That applied not only to the top leadership, scrambling to be on the small screen, but also to the portrayal of state interests. Television was an instrument of international diplomacy expressing the priority accorded by the Soviet state to other states and foreign dignitaries. Failure to include their visits and activities on state television bespoke a decision to downgrade the entire political and econ…
Television and Crisis: The End of Soviet Rule
Almost from the beginning, Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms had been put o the test by the Baltic republics, for whom the goal of independence ad been submerged, but never effaced, by Soviet rule. A central component of sovereignty in the age of television is the capacity to convey one’s messages in one’s own words,1 and bureaucratically, the television of the Baltic republics, as all republic-level television, operated under the direction and control…
Pushing the Envelope: Reforming from Within
The rules of the game had changed relatively little for state television’s film department and its doctrinaire head, but another department and its leader behaved in an altogether different fashion. In part, it was a question of exceptional leadership groups; in part the difference was structural: the target of their programming was youth. The Kremlin was deeply agitated by the possible loss of the replacement generation to the styles and worldvi…
Between Putsch and Revolt
With great dispatch, Yegor Yakovlev was named head of state television. His was to be the first post-Soviet leadership of the giant institution. Yakovlev, the former editor of Moscow News, had used that weekly to press well beyond the limits of glasnost. He could do so because his circulation was mainly foreign (it was published in a number of foreign languages and the Russian edition was very limited at first), and his appeal in Moscow was to a …
Television at War: Private Television News Under Fire
In August 1991 Dzhokhar Dudayev, a Soviet Air Force general, came home from his post in Estonia. He was one of the most prominent sons of Chechnya, but not the only one. Ruslan Khasbulatov, his fellow countryman, had higher ambitions-to lead all of Russia-but that would come two years later. Dzhokhar Dudayev came back to Chechnya when its last Communist Party leader, Doku Zavgayev, was overthrown (a political housecleaning given tacit support by …
Room for Views: Television and the Play of Controversial Positions
When Alexander Yakovlev proposed to the ruling Politburo and Mikhail Gorbachev, the newly installed General Secretary, that the media begin a campaign to legitimize pluralism-contending points of view-he was urging a way of thinking that the Soviet system had decisively rejected. After all, the basis on which information was strictly con trolled was the belief that only one view merited attention-that promulgated by the Communist Party leadershi…
Television: The Prize
The annual May Day parade had always been an opportunity for the power elite to be displayed, ranged along the balcony of Lenin’s mausoleum to review the parade of Soviet citizens pledging loyalty to the Communist Party and its leader. Since the advent of television the Moscow parade had been relayed to all locales, with small windows in the coverage to bring in remote sites. State television hosts introduced their colleagues across the country, …
Pictures, Parties, and Leaders: Television and Elections in the New Russia
The pattern of television coverage of electoral campaigns in Russia was basically set in December 1993. In that and subsequent elections, television played a critical role in affecting turnout and influencing voters’ party preferences. Whatever the merits or demerits of the way television coverage was designed, to a large extent the scheme came into being as a particular kind of reaction to an earlier use of television in a major national campaig…
Soviet Television Rulers and Their Empire
Monday, June 12, 1995, was Russian Independence Day, a day at the dacha or for tending to personal chores or watching television. There were no big parades or pageants; those had been done the month before when Russia celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the war with Germany. On state television’s Channel One that evening a television program hosted by the bicontinental, bilingual Vladimir Pozner came on. Like the old shows he used t…
Viewers and Voters: The First Competitive Elections and the Rise of Alternative News
For most of its history, the Soviet Union produced theatrical elections; the “electorate” performed its role of active supporter of the system and the leadership staged elaborate rituals with mandatory voting. Party activists roused the sick and truculent to go to the polls, and massive media attention was turned on the nominations, platforms, and near 100 percent turnout all across the country.
The Media Market: Politics, Commerce, and Press Freedom
When the official Soviet censorship agency was abolished, Communist Party monopoly rule removed, and pluralism in media ownership and content permitted, issues of press freedom in Russia began to resemble those of other countries. In other words, as direct political intervention receded (but certainly did not vanish), much of the conflict began to take place on the economic front. Politics and economics were tightly intertwined, but masked by a v…
Redefining the Political System of the USSR: Mass Support for Political Change
Using data from a national public opinion survey carried out in the Soviet Union during November and December 1989, we explore two attitudes relevant to the revolutionary changes there: (1) attitudes toward change and political democracy and (2) attitudes toward a core component of socialist ideology, the locus of responsibility for social well-being (the state or individuals?). These variables are unrelated, with the sample relatively evenly div…
Changing Channels: Television And The Struggle For Power In Russia
At 7:20 pm on October 3, 1993, a nervous and shaky anchor broke into coverage of a soccer match to tell Russian viewers that their state television was shutting down. In the opening salvos of the parliamentary revolt against Boris Yeltsin’s government, a mob had besieged the station’s headquarters. A man had just been killed in front of the news director. Moments later, screens all across Russia went blank, leaving audiences in the dark. But in l…
Handbook of Soviet Social Science Data
Excavating Concealed Tradeoffs: How Russians Watch the News
Citizens in democracies are expected to make better decisions if they understand policy tradeoffs. However, politicians rarely have incentives to communicate them; citizens are uncomfortable choosing among valued outcomes; and devising a common metric is difficult. It is not surprising that in the United States the environment provides relatively little cuing or priming of tradeoffs in television news. Russian citizens, on the other hand, face a …
Policy Applications of Public Opinion Research in the Soviet Union
This article describes recent developments in public opinion research in the Soviet Union. Two kinds of studies are reviewed: readership surveys carried out for leading Soviet newspapers and magazines by sociologists in the Academy of Sciences, and Party-sponsored research. The emphasis throughout is on policy applications of the studies. The material presented is not otherwise available in English
Regional Variation in Female Recruitment and Advancement in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
It is commonly reported in the West that the representation of women in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is far below their representation in the population at large, and that although there are slightly increasing rates of admission, continuation of the large disparity seems to constitute a relatively permanent feature of central recruitment policy and procedures. In 1970, for example, women formed 53.9 percent of the general population a…
The Election News Story on Russian Television: A World Apart from Viewers
Winning elections is so vital for Russian leaders that competing viewpoints on national television news channels have been scotched, together with the channels that broadcast them. This study examines the other side of the screen: how participants in focus groups in four Russian cities process national channels' treatments of an important regional electoral campaign. The study was conducted during the last period in which viewpoint diversity was …
The Modernization of Party Propaganda in the USSR
Lenin was one of the first political theorists to emphasize the enormous potential impact that manipulation of modern communications channels could have on a recipient population. It may therefore not be surprising that indices of penetration by the communications networks of the world's states suggest that the Soviet pattern is unique. For example, The World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators places groups of states on a developmental s…
Efficacy and Evidence: Evaluating U.S. Goals at the American National Exhibition in Moscow, 1959
The American National Exhibition in Moscow (ANEM) in 1959 during the administration of Dwight Eisenhower was intended to show the adversary “a corner of America” and the abundance and technological advances produced by the United States. Neither before nor since has a cultural-diplomatic initiative of similar scale, cost, and bureaucratic and international complexity been attempted. Some former U.S. officials maintain to this day that the success…
Piracy, Policy, and Russia's Emerging Media Market
The birth of a media market in Russia affords a unique opportunity to study the collision of international and national norms and practices. The refraction of globalization—involving, in this case, copyright protection and the program market—through local values and the rather different outcomes of sanctions and market inducements emerge as critical issues. The players in this drama are major and independent U.S. movie studios and trade organizat…
Reinventing the Soviet Self: Media and Social Change in the Former Soviet Union
The Functions of Communications Officials in the USSR: A Biographical Study
This study analyzes the biographies of a number of Soviet communications officials in order to address some fundamental and increasingly important questions about the communications process and about prospects for responding to the dilemmas that recent information about the Soviet audience has revealed. Major efforts to examine audience opinion have been undertaken in the Soviet Union. To a considerable extent these efforts are a response to the …
The Soviet Calculus of Nuclear War
PREFACE/AVANT-PROPOS ELLEN MICKIEWICZ (Atlanta, Ga., U.S.A.) THE SOVIET CALCULUS OF NUCLEAR WAR From time to time, Soviet Union p'ublishes a special issue devoted to a top- ic of broad interest. The present volume is a special double issue ccmbining two regular numbers and devoted to a single topic: "The Soviet Calculus of Nuclear War." The decision to devote two-thirds of the journal's annual cov- erage to this subject was made well over a year …
Evaluation Studies of Soviet Party Members
Recent studies by academic sociologists in the Soviet Union indicate a commitment to the expansion of information and development of evaluative studies of the behavior of Communist Party members. In particular, the present article analyzes patterns of newspaper consumption among party members and their behavior within organizations. The latter relates further to the efficacy of transmission of information upward through party organizations to cen…
Adult Education in France
Soviet Political Schools. The Communist Party Adult Instruction System
The Modernization of Party Propaganda in the USSR
Lenin was one of the first political theorists to emphasize the enormous potential impact that manipulation of modern communications channels could have on a recipient population. It may therefore not be surprising that indices of penetration by the communications networks of the world's states suggest that the Soviet pattern is unique. For example, The World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators places groups of states on a developmental s…
Policy Applications of Public Opinion Research in the Soviet Union
This article describes recent developments in public opinion research in the Soviet Union. Two kinds of studies are reviewed: readership surveys carried out for leading Soviet newspapers and magazines by sociologists in the Academy of Sciences, and Party-sponsored research. The emphasis throughout is on policy applications of the studies. The material presented is not otherwise available in English
Revolution and Tradition in People's Poland: Education and Socialization. Joseph R. Fiszman
Handbook of Soviet Social Science Data
Evaluation Studies of Soviet Party Members
Recent studies by academic sociologists in the Soviet Union indicate a commitment to the expansion of information and development of evaluative studies of the behavior of Communist Party members. In particular, the present article analyzes patterns of newspaper consumption among party members and their behavior within organizations. The latter relates further to the efficacy of transmission of information upward through party organizations to cen…
Regional Variation in Female Recruitment and Advancement in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
It is commonly reported in the West that the representation of women in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is far below their representation in the population at large, and that although there are slightly increasing rates of admission, continuation of the large disparity seems to constitute a relatively permanent feature of central recruitment policy and procedures. In 1970, for example, women formed 53.9 percent of the general population a…
Feedback, Surveys, and Soviet Communication Theory
Journal Article Feedback, Surveys, and Soviet Communication Theory Get access Ellen Mickiewicz Ellen Mickiewicz 1Ellen Mickiewicz is Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Emory University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 33, Issue 2, June 1983, Pages 97–110, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1983.tb02392.x Published: 07 Febr…
The Soviet Calculus of Nuclear War
PREFACE/AVANT-PROPOS ELLEN MICKIEWICZ (Atlanta, Ga., U.S.A.) THE SOVIET CALCULUS OF NUCLEAR WAR From time to time, Soviet Union p'ublishes a special issue devoted to a top- ic of broad interest. The present volume is a special double issue ccmbining two regular numbers and devoted to a single topic: "The Soviet Calculus of Nuclear War." The decision to devote two-thirds of the journal's annual cov- erage to this subject was made well over a year …
Dezinfomatsia: Active Measures in Soviet Strategy, by Roy Godson and Richard H. Shultz
The Functions of Communications Officials in the USSR: A Biographical Study
This study analyzes the biographies of a number of Soviet communications officials in order to address some fundamental and increasingly important questions about the communications process and about prospects for responding to the dilemmas that recent information about the Soviet audience has revealed. Major efforts to examine audience opinion have been undertaken in the Soviet Union. To a considerable extent these efforts are a response to the …
Soviet and American News: Week of Intensive Interaction
In 1940, there were only 400 television sets in the Soviet Union. By 1950, there were 10,000; a decade later, some 4.8 million. Then in the five years between 1965 and 1970, the availability of television sets more than doubled, and by 1976, Soviet industry was producing 7 million sets annually. In 1960, only 5 percent of the Soviet population could watch television, but by 1986 that figure had risen to 93 percent, and television signals could be…
Mass Culture, Change, and Mobilization: The Media Revolution
Mobilization and Reform: Political Communication Policy Under Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev's program for the renovation of the Soviet political system is a reform of considerable magnitude. The sequencing of policies provides important information about the nature of the Soviet system and the dynamics of change, and in that sequence, communications policies shifted earliest and most radically. Virtually from the beginning of Gorbachev's tenure in power, an observer of Soviet politics could detect in the use of the med…
Split Signals: Television and Politics in the Soviet Union
Ethnicity and Soviet Television News
Ellen Mickiewicz, Dawn Plumb Jamison; Ethnicity and Soviet Television News, Journal of Communication, Volume 41, Issue 2, 1 June 1991, Pages 150–161, https
Split Signals: Television and Politics in the Soviet Union
Founded in 1974, the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) aims to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada
Redefining the Political System of the USSR: Mass Support for Political Change
Using data from a national public opinion survey carried out in the Soviet Union during November and December 1989, we explore two attitudes relevant to the revolutionary changes there: (1) attitudes toward change and political democracy and (2) attitudes toward a core component of socialist ideology, the locus of responsibility for social well-being (the state or individuals?). These variables are unrelated, with the sample relatively evenly div…
The Commercialization of Scholarship in the Former Soviet Union
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Reinventing the Soviet Self: Media and Social Change in the Former Soviet Union
Dedication
Changing Channels on the Most Powerful Medium
Only four and-a-half years had passed between the 1990 May Day parade and the winter of the Chechen war. On May Day Mikhail Gorbachev was surprised by the public’s hostility, and during Chechnya Boris Yeltsin was surprised by the low impact of his information policy. In both cases, the events taking place in a single, delimited space became nationally significant, in large part because of television. The old ways-on the screen and in the polity-d…
Closely Watched Targets: The Nightly News, the Military, and Lenin
Television reflected and conferred status. That applied not only to the top leadership, scrambling to be on the small screen, but also to the portrayal of state interests. Television was an instrument of international diplomacy expressing the priority accorded by the Soviet state to other states and foreign dignitaries. Failure to include their visits and activities on state television bespoke a decision to downgrade the entire political and econ…
Television and Crisis: The End of Soviet Rule
Almost from the beginning, Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms had been put o the test by the Baltic republics, for whom the goal of independence ad been submerged, but never effaced, by Soviet rule. A central component of sovereignty in the age of television is the capacity to convey one’s messages in one’s own words,1 and bureaucratically, the television of the Baltic republics, as all republic-level television, operated under the direction and control…
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