Olga Dovbysh
Biographic Data
| ID | 336628 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olga Dovbysh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olga |
| FAMILY NAME | Dovbysh |
| SIGNATURE | DOVBYSH O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9985-1272 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Authoritarian Algorithmic Publics: Conceptualising the Nexus of Authoritarianism and Digital Innovation Uptake in Russian News Media
Scholarship on digital innovation uptake in journalism has expanded to include hybrid and authoritarian regimes. However, the intersection of digital innovation and algorithmisation with restricted media freedom remains undertheorised. This article introduces the concept of authoritarian algorithmic publics (AAP), building upon “authoritarian publics-at-large” (Toepfl) and “algorithmic publics” (Christen), and applies it to Russia. Based on in-de…
Navigating Connections and Disconnections: The (Re)making of Russian Exiled Journalism in the Digital Age
(De)politicization of the environmental agenda in Russian media
In the early 2020s, climate change and environmental challenges became increasingly important issues in the Russian political discourse. This was followed by growing media interest in environmental and climate reporting. This article explores how environmental journalists in Russian media outlets make sense of and discursively frame the environmental agenda. Based on in-depth interviews with environmental journalists working in the Russian media …
How to Reach Nirvana: Yandex, News Personalisation, and the Future of Russian Journalistic Media
Technological corporations and the digital services they provide play an increasingly important role in the production and dissemination of news, e.g., through media’s growing reliance on algorithmic recommender systems that perform gatekeeping functions. Bringing together three areas of interest – the relationships between large technological corporations and the professional news media, the deployment of recommender systems in non-democracies, …
Understanding Media Control in the Digital Age
Media control comprises multifaceted and amorphous phenomena, combining a variety of forms, tools, and practices. Today media control takes place in a sphere where national politics meet global technology, resulting in practices that bear features of both the (global) platforms and the affordances of national politics. At the intersection of these fields, we try to understand current practices of media control and the ways in which it may be resi…
Towards (Hyper)Local Public Sphere: Comparison of Civic Engagement across the Global North
The role of hyperlocal media is of increasing relevance as traditional local journalism experiences a decline due to centralisation and consolidation. The affordances of Internet and digital technologies also enable hyperlocal initiatives to enhance civic engagement in localities and serve as a place and resource for local deliberative processes. This study examines how the aims, perceptions and practices of hyperlocal media vary in three countri…
New Gatekeepers in Town: How Groups in Social Networking Sites Influence Information Flows in Russia's Provinces
The study focuses upon 'city public groups' ('gorodskie pabliki,' local newsgroups on social networking sites)-the new entrants in the local media space of the Russian province that have recently become important actors of regional public communication. Such groups combine news posting and citizen discussions, report on local affairs and gossip, and entertain. Some groups are based on user-generated content; others create their own content or act…
At The Crossroads of Hobby, Community Work and Media Business
The aims, functions and work practices of hyperlocal start-ups and citizen- or community-initiated information sharing vary. We know little about how hyperlocal practitioners’ perceptions of their roles are constructed as a part of wider media ecosystems. This article examines how Nordic and Russian hyperlocal practitioners define their roles, focusing on the possibilities and limits provided by the media ecosystems and models (Dobek-Ostrowska, G…
Do digital technologies matter? How hyperlocal media is re-configuring the media landscape of a Russian province
The increase of internet penetration across Russia has reduced entry barriers for individuals and companies who want to report locally. New digital technologies have given rise to many semi-professional local media projects, so-called ‘hyperlocal media’ (Metzgar et al., 2011; Tenor, 2018), created on various online platforms and social networking sites. Websites, blogs, and social media groups (the so-called ‘pabliki’ in Russian) on the popular s…
Commercial or public service actors? Controversies in the nature of Russia's regional mass media
Traditionally, regional mass media has been the least-studied component of the Russian media system; however, beginning from the 2000s, transformations in the nation's political and economic spheres have influenced the position of local media. This paper provides a deeper investigation of the processes and patterns underlying the development of regional mass media in modern Russia. The research is grounded on an analytical review of secondary sou…
Media Markets in the Focus of Social Network Analysis
Э лектронный журнал «Экономическая социология» издаётся с 2000 г.Учредителями являются Национальный исследовательский университет «Высшая школа экономики» (с 2007 г.) и Вадим Валерьевич Радаев (главный редактор).Цель журнала -утверждать международные стандарты экономико-социологических исследований в России, представлять современные работы российских и зарубежных авторов в области экономической социологии, информировать профессиональное сообществ…
Do digital technologies matter? How hyperlocal media is re-configuring the media landscape of a Russian province
The increase of internet penetration across Russia has reduced entry barriers for individuals and companies who want to report locally. New digital technologies have given rise to many semi-professional local media projects, so-called ‘hyperlocal media’ (Metzgar et al., 2011; Tenor, 2018), created on various online platforms and social networking sites. Websites, blogs, and social media groups (the so-called ‘pabliki’ in Russian) on the popular s…
Commercial or public service actors? Controversies in the nature of Russia's regional mass media
Traditionally, regional mass media has been the least-studied component of the Russian media system; however, beginning from the 2000s, transformations in the nation's political and economic spheres have influenced the position of local media. This paper provides a deeper investigation of the processes and patterns underlying the development of regional mass media in modern Russia. The research is grounded on an analytical review of secondary sou…
Navigating Connections and Disconnections: The (Re)making of Russian Exiled Journalism in the Digital Age
New Gatekeepers in Town: How Groups in Social Networking Sites Influence Information Flows in Russia's Provinces
The study focuses upon 'city public groups' ('gorodskie pabliki,' local newsgroups on social networking sites)-the new entrants in the local media space of the Russian province that have recently become important actors of regional public communication. Such groups combine news posting and citizen discussions, report on local affairs and gossip, and entertain. Some groups are based on user-generated content; others create their own content or act…
Media Markets in the Focus of Social Network Analysis
Э лектронный журнал «Экономическая социология» издаётся с 2000 г.Учредителями являются Национальный исследовательский университет «Высшая школа экономики» (с 2007 г.) и Вадим Валерьевич Радаев (главный редактор).Цель журнала -утверждать международные стандарты экономико-социологических исследований в России, представлять современные работы российских и зарубежных авторов в области экономической социологии, информировать профессиональное сообществ…
Commercial or public service actors? Controversies in the nature of Russia's regional mass media
Traditionally, regional mass media has been the least-studied component of the Russian media system; however, beginning from the 2000s, transformations in the nation's political and economic spheres have influenced the position of local media. This paper provides a deeper investigation of the processes and patterns underlying the development of regional mass media in modern Russia. The research is grounded on an analytical review of secondary sou…
At The Crossroads of Hobby, Community Work and Media Business
The aims, functions and work practices of hyperlocal start-ups and citizen- or community-initiated information sharing vary. We know little about how hyperlocal practitioners’ perceptions of their roles are constructed as a part of wider media ecosystems. This article examines how Nordic and Russian hyperlocal practitioners define their roles, focusing on the possibilities and limits provided by the media ecosystems and models (Dobek-Ostrowska, G…
Do digital technologies matter? How hyperlocal media is re-configuring the media landscape of a Russian province
The increase of internet penetration across Russia has reduced entry barriers for individuals and companies who want to report locally. New digital technologies have given rise to many semi-professional local media projects, so-called ‘hyperlocal media’ (Metzgar et al., 2011; Tenor, 2018), created on various online platforms and social networking sites. Websites, blogs, and social media groups (the so-called ‘pabliki’ in Russian) on the popular s…
Understanding Media Control in the Digital Age
Media control comprises multifaceted and amorphous phenomena, combining a variety of forms, tools, and practices. Today media control takes place in a sphere where national politics meet global technology, resulting in practices that bear features of both the (global) platforms and the affordances of national politics. At the intersection of these fields, we try to understand current practices of media control and the ways in which it may be resi…
Towards (Hyper)Local Public Sphere: Comparison of Civic Engagement across the Global North
The role of hyperlocal media is of increasing relevance as traditional local journalism experiences a decline due to centralisation and consolidation. The affordances of Internet and digital technologies also enable hyperlocal initiatives to enhance civic engagement in localities and serve as a place and resource for local deliberative processes. This study examines how the aims, perceptions and practices of hyperlocal media vary in three countri…
New Gatekeepers in Town: How Groups in Social Networking Sites Influence Information Flows in Russia's Provinces
The study focuses upon 'city public groups' ('gorodskie pabliki,' local newsgroups on social networking sites)-the new entrants in the local media space of the Russian province that have recently become important actors of regional public communication. Such groups combine news posting and citizen discussions, report on local affairs and gossip, and entertain. Some groups are based on user-generated content; others create their own content or act…
How to Reach Nirvana: Yandex, News Personalisation, and the Future of Russian Journalistic Media
Technological corporations and the digital services they provide play an increasingly important role in the production and dissemination of news, e.g., through media’s growing reliance on algorithmic recommender systems that perform gatekeeping functions. Bringing together three areas of interest – the relationships between large technological corporations and the professional news media, the deployment of recommender systems in non-democracies, …
(De)politicization of the environmental agenda in Russian media
In the early 2020s, climate change and environmental challenges became increasingly important issues in the Russian political discourse. This was followed by growing media interest in environmental and climate reporting. This article explores how environmental journalists in Russian media outlets make sense of and discursively frame the environmental agenda. Based on in-depth interviews with environmental journalists working in the Russian media …
Authoritarian Algorithmic Publics: Conceptualising the Nexus of Authoritarianism and Digital Innovation Uptake in Russian News Media
Scholarship on digital innovation uptake in journalism has expanded to include hybrid and authoritarian regimes. However, the intersection of digital innovation and algorithmisation with restricted media freedom remains undertheorised. This article introduces the concept of authoritarian algorithmic publics (AAP), building upon “authoritarian publics-at-large” (Toepfl) and “algorithmic publics” (Christen), and applies it to Russia. Based on in-de…
Navigating Connections and Disconnections: The (Re)making of Russian Exiled Journalism in the Digital Age
Sociology (10 works) · Media studies (8 works) · Media Studies and Communication (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social Media and Politics (7 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Social media (6 works) · Digital media (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Journalism (4 works)