Elina Erzikova
Biographic Data
| ID | 4394367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elina Erzikova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elina |
| FAMILY NAME | Erzikova |
| SIGNATURE | ERZIKOVA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Central Michigan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2013-3543 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
‘Repackaging the emptiness’: How Russian regional journalism adapts to the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the role news organizations play in disseminating information and shaping public response to the crisis. This study adopts an ecological approach in examining Russian regional journalists’ adaptations to the pandemic. Based on in-depth interviews, the study found that a worsened economic situation has increased dependence on state subsidies. Journalists avoided questioning authorities’ response to COVID, with…
Media Catching: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Strategic Mediatization in Public Relations
A form of strategic mediatization, media catching is the reversal of the traditional public relations process of pitching story ideas to journalists using press releases, feature pitch letters, and other techniques. In media catching, journalists working on specific stories reach out to large numbers of public relations practitioners using a variety of technologically aided services with queries for specific information. Using quantitative and qu…
When the Gated Misbehave: Online reader comments on Anthony Weiner’s sexting scandal
This study analyzes online reader comments on top US newspapers’ stories related to former congressman, Anthony Weiner’s, August 2016 sexting scandal. Audience gatekeeping was seen through such discussion themes as gender bias and sexism, political scandals, and sex addiction. The analysis revealed that the majority of reader comments significantly diverged from the news topic, and many comments about US politicians were uncivil. Furthermore, onl…
News Media Ecosystems and Population Dynamics: A Cross-Cultural Analysis
Much of the classic sociological research on news production was conducted at the level of the news organization (e.g. Epstein, 1973; Tuchman, 1978; Tunstall, 1971). However, for some time, scholars have also recognized that news organizations are porous, and news is influenced by the organization’s environment (e.g. Carroll and Hannan, 1995; Tichenor, Olien and Donohue, 1980). In the early to mid-1900s, Robert Park of the Chicago School of Socio…
Gender effect in Russian public relations: A perfect storm of obstacles for women
Russian Regional Media: Fragmented community, fragmented online practices
This study uses Bourdieu’s field theory to examine differences and similarities in digital practices among regional news organizations. Findings from interviews and field observations indicate that online journalism is fragmented in the region, with newsrooms operating on their own beliefs and interpretations. The variance can be explained by such factors as differences in managerial approaches, organizational culture, external factors, and histo…
Identity management in HIV-positive prisoners in Russia: A case study
Identity management is a salient issue for all human beings. However, identity management is profoundly complicated among multiply stigmatized individuals, such as incarcerated diseased criminals. The current study represents a first to examine stigma management communication (SMC) among HIV-positive prisoners who consider themselves members of the Russian criminal underworld. Twenty-five HIV-positive ‘black’ inmates were interviewed and observed…
Shifting institutional orders and responses to technological disruption among local journalists in Russia and the U.S
This study compares U.S. and Russian news organizations’ responses to today’s disruptive environment intensified by the development of digital online technologies and global economic crisis. Findings show U.S. journalists attempt to maintain legitimacy within ‘professional’ and ‘digital network’ orders by either decoupling their digital network efforts from traditional, core operations or by assimilating digital practices within traditional journ…
Preventive journalism as a means of controlling regional media in Russia
This article utilizes new institutional theory and its principle – coercive isomorphism – to examine explicit and implicit pressures exerted on news organizations by a regional government in Russia in 2009 and 2010. The study found that while empowering regional reporters by the myth of helping underprivileged citizens, the authorities divert the media from scrutinizing the government. The political officials outsource media relations to media th…
Shaken, not stirred: Western public relations practices in Russia
By contrasting some principles of Western public relations (PR) with political, social and cultural aspects of Russian society, this essay focuses on the applicability of foreign-born approaches in Russia. Although normative Western PR seems irrelevant and even contradictory to the Russian environment at the theoretical level, in reality, some Western ‘ways of doing PR’ have infiltrated Russian PR field, simultaneously changing it and mutating un…
One Profession, Multiple Identities: Russian Regional Reporters' Perceptions of the Professional Community
Drawing on perspectives on occupation and identity, this study examines Russian regional journalists' perceptions of their professional community. Different journalistic values derived from a fierce professional competition contributed to reporters' view of the community as disjointed and polarized. The study also found that type of ownership influenced journalists' identity and the way they conceptualize practice. Although journalists of private…
Managed Mediocrity: Experienced journalists’ perspectives on the “pampers generation” of Russian reporters
This paper adopts Bourdieu's field theory to examine a possible professional gap between young and experienced Russian regional journalists. In-depth interviews revealed that experienced journalists have a negative view of their young colleagues, seeing them as unskilled, poorly motivated, mediocre, and submissive to authority. In turn, beginners see the older generation as lacking dynamism and dedication to helping young reporters master profess…
Institutional Legitimacy and Russian News: Case Studies of Four Regional Newspapers
This article explores institutional influences on Russian news media at the regional level and adopts a new institutional approach to help explain media's response to increased control by local elites. Media in the province operate partly in a clientelist system in which journalists and their organizations provide services to political and economic elites in the region in exchange for desperately needed resources. The poor economic condition of t…
Seeking Safe Ground: Russian regional journalists' withdrawal from civic service journalism
This paper adopts a system of professions perspective from the sociology of work to assess efforts by Russian regional journalists to redefine the purposes and standards of journalism in an increasingly constraining political and economic environment. Data from interviews and observations at four newspapers in a central Russian province reveal that journalists at these papers have responded to pressures in varied ways, suggesting fragmentation in…
Ethics in Public Relations: American and Russian Students’ Perspectives on Professional Challenges
This study investigates Russian (n=206) and American (n=204) public relations students’ perceptions of relationships between ethics and public relations practice. The results suggest that, although there are some similarities, students in the two countries view professional public relations ethics and leadership quite differently. Russian participants were more likely than their American counterparts to see obstacles that might hav e prev ented t…
Institutional Legitimacy and Russian News: Case Studies of Four Regional Newspapers
This article explores institutional influences on Russian news media at the regional level and adopts a new institutional approach to help explain media's response to increased control by local elites. Media in the province operate partly in a clientelist system in which journalists and their organizations provide services to political and economic elites in the region in exchange for desperately needed resources. The poor economic condition of t…
Seeking Safe Ground: Russian regional journalists' withdrawal from civic service journalism
This paper adopts a system of professions perspective from the sociology of work to assess efforts by Russian regional journalists to redefine the purposes and standards of journalism in an increasingly constraining political and economic environment. Data from interviews and observations at four newspapers in a central Russian province reveal that journalists at these papers have responded to pressures in varied ways, suggesting fragmentation in…
Russian Regional Media: Fragmented community, fragmented online practices
This study uses Bourdieu’s field theory to examine differences and similarities in digital practices among regional news organizations. Findings from interviews and field observations indicate that online journalism is fragmented in the region, with newsrooms operating on their own beliefs and interpretations. The variance can be explained by such factors as differences in managerial approaches, organizational culture, external factors, and histo…
Managed Mediocrity: Experienced journalists’ perspectives on the “pampers generation” of Russian reporters
This paper adopts Bourdieu's field theory to examine a possible professional gap between young and experienced Russian regional journalists. In-depth interviews revealed that experienced journalists have a negative view of their young colleagues, seeing them as unskilled, poorly motivated, mediocre, and submissive to authority. In turn, beginners see the older generation as lacking dynamism and dedication to helping young reporters master profess…
One Profession, Multiple Identities: Russian Regional Reporters' Perceptions of the Professional Community
Drawing on perspectives on occupation and identity, this study examines Russian regional journalists' perceptions of their professional community. Different journalistic values derived from a fierce professional competition contributed to reporters' view of the community as disjointed and polarized. The study also found that type of ownership influenced journalists' identity and the way they conceptualize practice. Although journalists of private…
Media Catching: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Strategic Mediatization in Public Relations
A form of strategic mediatization, media catching is the reversal of the traditional public relations process of pitching story ideas to journalists using press releases, feature pitch letters, and other techniques. In media catching, journalists working on specific stories reach out to large numbers of public relations practitioners using a variety of technologically aided services with queries for specific information. Using quantitative and qu…
When the Gated Misbehave: Online reader comments on Anthony Weiner’s sexting scandal
This study analyzes online reader comments on top US newspapers’ stories related to former congressman, Anthony Weiner’s, August 2016 sexting scandal. Audience gatekeeping was seen through such discussion themes as gender bias and sexism, political scandals, and sex addiction. The analysis revealed that the majority of reader comments significantly diverged from the news topic, and many comments about US politicians were uncivil. Furthermore, onl…
Gender effect in Russian public relations: A perfect storm of obstacles for women
Identity management in HIV-positive prisoners in Russia: A case study
Identity management is a salient issue for all human beings. However, identity management is profoundly complicated among multiply stigmatized individuals, such as incarcerated diseased criminals. The current study represents a first to examine stigma management communication (SMC) among HIV-positive prisoners who consider themselves members of the Russian criminal underworld. Twenty-five HIV-positive ‘black’ inmates were interviewed and observed…
Ethics in Public Relations: American and Russian Students’ Perspectives on Professional Challenges
This study investigates Russian (n=206) and American (n=204) public relations students’ perceptions of relationships between ethics and public relations practice. The results suggest that, although there are some similarities, students in the two countries view professional public relations ethics and leadership quite differently. Russian participants were more likely than their American counterparts to see obstacles that might hav e prev ented t…
Seeking Safe Ground: Russian regional journalists' withdrawal from civic service journalism
This paper adopts a system of professions perspective from the sociology of work to assess efforts by Russian regional journalists to redefine the purposes and standards of journalism in an increasingly constraining political and economic environment. Data from interviews and observations at four newspapers in a central Russian province reveal that journalists at these papers have responded to pressures in varied ways, suggesting fragmentation in…
Institutional Legitimacy and Russian News: Case Studies of Four Regional Newspapers
This article explores institutional influences on Russian news media at the regional level and adopts a new institutional approach to help explain media's response to increased control by local elites. Media in the province operate partly in a clientelist system in which journalists and their organizations provide services to political and economic elites in the region in exchange for desperately needed resources. The poor economic condition of t…
Managed Mediocrity: Experienced journalists’ perspectives on the “pampers generation” of Russian reporters
This paper adopts Bourdieu's field theory to examine a possible professional gap between young and experienced Russian regional journalists. In-depth interviews revealed that experienced journalists have a negative view of their young colleagues, seeing them as unskilled, poorly motivated, mediocre, and submissive to authority. In turn, beginners see the older generation as lacking dynamism and dedication to helping young reporters master profess…
Shaken, not stirred: Western public relations practices in Russia
By contrasting some principles of Western public relations (PR) with political, social and cultural aspects of Russian society, this essay focuses on the applicability of foreign-born approaches in Russia. Although normative Western PR seems irrelevant and even contradictory to the Russian environment at the theoretical level, in reality, some Western ‘ways of doing PR’ have infiltrated Russian PR field, simultaneously changing it and mutating un…
One Profession, Multiple Identities: Russian Regional Reporters' Perceptions of the Professional Community
Drawing on perspectives on occupation and identity, this study examines Russian regional journalists' perceptions of their professional community. Different journalistic values derived from a fierce professional competition contributed to reporters' view of the community as disjointed and polarized. The study also found that type of ownership influenced journalists' identity and the way they conceptualize practice. Although journalists of private…
Identity management in HIV-positive prisoners in Russia: A case study
Identity management is a salient issue for all human beings. However, identity management is profoundly complicated among multiply stigmatized individuals, such as incarcerated diseased criminals. The current study represents a first to examine stigma management communication (SMC) among HIV-positive prisoners who consider themselves members of the Russian criminal underworld. Twenty-five HIV-positive ‘black’ inmates were interviewed and observed…
Shifting institutional orders and responses to technological disruption among local journalists in Russia and the U.S
This study compares U.S. and Russian news organizations’ responses to today’s disruptive environment intensified by the development of digital online technologies and global economic crisis. Findings show U.S. journalists attempt to maintain legitimacy within ‘professional’ and ‘digital network’ orders by either decoupling their digital network efforts from traditional, core operations or by assimilating digital practices within traditional journ…
Preventive journalism as a means of controlling regional media in Russia
This article utilizes new institutional theory and its principle – coercive isomorphism – to examine explicit and implicit pressures exerted on news organizations by a regional government in Russia in 2009 and 2010. The study found that while empowering regional reporters by the myth of helping underprivileged citizens, the authorities divert the media from scrutinizing the government. The political officials outsource media relations to media th…
News Media Ecosystems and Population Dynamics: A Cross-Cultural Analysis
Much of the classic sociological research on news production was conducted at the level of the news organization (e.g. Epstein, 1973; Tuchman, 1978; Tunstall, 1971). However, for some time, scholars have also recognized that news organizations are porous, and news is influenced by the organization’s environment (e.g. Carroll and Hannan, 1995; Tichenor, Olien and Donohue, 1980). In the early to mid-1900s, Robert Park of the Chicago School of Socio…
Gender effect in Russian public relations: A perfect storm of obstacles for women
Russian Regional Media: Fragmented community, fragmented online practices
This study uses Bourdieu’s field theory to examine differences and similarities in digital practices among regional news organizations. Findings from interviews and field observations indicate that online journalism is fragmented in the region, with newsrooms operating on their own beliefs and interpretations. The variance can be explained by such factors as differences in managerial approaches, organizational culture, external factors, and histo…
When the Gated Misbehave: Online reader comments on Anthony Weiner’s sexting scandal
This study analyzes online reader comments on top US newspapers’ stories related to former congressman, Anthony Weiner’s, August 2016 sexting scandal. Audience gatekeeping was seen through such discussion themes as gender bias and sexism, political scandals, and sex addiction. The analysis revealed that the majority of reader comments significantly diverged from the news topic, and many comments about US politicians were uncivil. Furthermore, onl…
Media Catching: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Strategic Mediatization in Public Relations
A form of strategic mediatization, media catching is the reversal of the traditional public relations process of pitching story ideas to journalists using press releases, feature pitch letters, and other techniques. In media catching, journalists working on specific stories reach out to large numbers of public relations practitioners using a variety of technologically aided services with queries for specific information. Using quantitative and qu…
‘Repackaging the emptiness’: How Russian regional journalism adapts to the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the role news organizations play in disseminating information and shaping public response to the crisis. This study adopts an ecological approach in examining Russian regional journalists’ adaptations to the pandemic. Based on in-depth interviews, the study found that a worsened economic situation has increased dependence on state subsidies. Journalists avoided questioning authorities’ response to COVID, with…
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Media Studies and Communication (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Public relations (11 works) · Politics (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Media studies (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Public Relations and Crisis Communication (6 works)