Stephen Hutchings
Biographic Data
| ID | 5860306 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Hutchings |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Hutchings |
| SIGNATURE | HUTCHINGS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Manchester, UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Disinformation as process: Modeling the lifecycle of deceit
This article offers a new conceptual model of disinformation which accounts for the performative status of disinformation accusations, and the dialogistic interaction between accusers and accused, within a multi-aspectual dynamic process involving diverse actors (including those disassociated from various forms of deceit). The model shows how claims acquire or lose their disinformation status, as they transgress temporal, geopolitical, and lingua…
Truth with a Z: Disinformation, war in Ukraine, and Russia’s contradictory discourse of imperial identity
This article offers a qualitative analysis of how, by adopting identity-related discourses whose meanings resonate within a given culture, Russian state propaganda strives to bolster “the truth status” of its Ukraine war claims. These discourses, we argue, have long historical lineages and thus are expected to be familiar to audiences. We identify three such discourses common in many contexts but with specific resonances in Russia, those of colon…
Mediatization and journalistic agency: Russian television coverage of the Skripal poisonings
The 2018 Skripal poisonings prompted the heavy securitisation of UK-Russian relations. Despite the ensuing tight coordination between the Russian government and state-aligned television, this article argues that in today’s mediatised environment – in which social and political activities fuse inextricably with their own mediation – even non-democracies must cope with the shaping of global communications by media logics and related market imperati…
Revolution from the margins: Commemorating 1917 and RT’s scandalising of the established order
In this article, I explore what RT’s unusually open-ended project commemorating the centenary of the Russian Revolution - #1917Live – tells us about its tendentious, mainstream output. I adopt an epistemological framework locating meaning in the marginal and different rather than the normative and recurrent, treating this ‘un-RT like’ project’s components as multi-layered cultural texts to be interpreted rather than sociological data to be counte…
(Un)covering alterity
This chapter examines the initially subdued role of ethnicity in television&s;s approach to consensus management as it struggled to negotiate the competing demands of the democratic and nationalist oppositions. Ethnicity&s;s centrality to the hegemonic process is indicated by the subliminal manner in which it colours the corruption theme so ubiquitous in Russian political discourse. The chapter examines the role of Naval&s;nyi&s;s own populist ca…
Transcending marginality
This chapter focuses on how challenges have been manifested, on why such a development might occur and on what it tells about the relationship between the Kremlin and federal broadcasters, through the prism of television coverage of migration issues. The selection of officials and experts is such that only a minority of the speakers support the Kremlin-endorsed position, namely, that migration is essential for the country&s;s economy and that int…
Mapping an uncertain terrain
This chapter focuses the television&s;s ability to perform state television&s;s balancing act was tested severely during the ethno-racially motivated riots in Moscow in December 2010. In addition to Channel 1 and Rossiia, the author analyse relevant news reports by NTV and REN TV. Conflicting information about the Manezhnaia disturbances was refracted by the four channels through a set of consistently utilized interpretative lenses reflecting off…
An unholy scandal
The scandal took place on the eve of the presidential elections, and in the context of the liberal opposition&s;s criticism of the Moscow Patriarchate for offering its overt support to Putin. Prime among the discursive displacements from the Pussy Riot scandal was the paranoid vitriol launched by the Orthodox Church and the hyperbolic professions of piety. The Moscow Times singled out from among the prosecution&s;s far-fetched accusations the cha…
Ethnic conflict and television news coverage of the December 2010 Moscow riots
This chapter analyses the broader historical and current political context of the region within which Vesti-Buriatiia&s;s coverage. It explores the representational strategies with which Vesti-Buriatiia deals with the republic&s;s actual and symbolic borderland position and negotiates its cultural and religious diversity. The author attempts to make sense of the complex balancing act by analysing Vesti-Buriatiia&s;s broadcasts through the perspec…
Re-working Russian diversity
The scandal took place on the eve of the presidential elections, and in the context of the liberal opposition&s;s criticism of the Moscow Patriarchate for offering its overt support to Putin. Prime among the discursive displacements from the Pussy Riot scandal was the paranoid vitriol launched by the Orthodox Church and the hyperbolic professions of piety. The Moscow Times singled out from among the prosecution&s;s far-fetched accusations the cha…
Television and nationhood
In this chapter the author presents an overview of the body of news recordings that people collected over a two-year period from September 2010 to August 2012. From news recordings the author generated a simple content analysis which enabled, to gain a grasp of the broad patterns and trends in coverage of inter-ethnic relations in Russia, to map out the contested and shifting terrain. In presenting the content analysis, the author begins by asses…
Conclusion
National television serves as a key facilitator of the process, both aspects of which were epitomized in Mamontov&s;s Spetsial&s;nyi korrespondent series on Pussy Riot and migrant workers respectively. The symbiosis of national self and antithetical western &s;other&s; in the Russian patriotic imagination, and the fragile condition in which free expression, and with it the future of Russian civil society, and of the Federation, finds itself place…
‘There is war on our streets…’
This chapter focuses on how challenges have been manifested, on why such a development might occur and on what it tells about the relationship between the Kremlin and federal broadcasters, through the prism of television coverage of migration issues. The selection of officials and experts is such that only a minority of the speakers support the Kremlin-endorsed position, namely, that migration is essential for the country&s;s economy and that int…
Re-inventing Russia in television news commemorations of the ‘Day of National Unity’
This chapter talks about the wake of Manezhnaia revealed, television&s;s role in the mis-management of diversity policy is far from restricted to news bulletins. The new generation of gypsy dramas to flood Russian television can also be traced to the early 1990s arrival on post-Soviet screens of the Latin American &s;soap opera&s; form, with its melodramatic narratives of provincial girls finding love and social advancement in new, urban environm…
Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television: Mediating Post-Soviet Difference
Russia, one of the most ethno-culturally diverse countries in the world, provides a rich case study on how globalisation and associated international trends are disrupting, and causing the radical rethinking of approaches to, inter-ethnic cohesion. The book highlights the importance of television broadcasting in shaping national discourse and the place of ethno-cultural diversity within it. It argues that television’s role here has been reinforce…
Globalisation, Freedom and the Media after Communism: The Past As Future
Symposium Editors' Introduction Birgit Beumers, Stephen Hutchings and Natalia Rulyova * The Struggle for Press Freedom in Russia: Reflections of a Russian Journalist Nadezhda Azhgikhina * The Next General Elections in Russia: What Role for the Media? Daphne Skillen * The Neo-Soviet Model of the Media Sarah Oates * Mass Media and the Information Climate in Russia Hedwig de Smaele * The Local and the International in Russian Business Journalism: St…
Serializing National Cohesion: Channel 1's “Shkola” and the Contradictions of Post‐Soviet “Consensus Management”
Parliaments rarely debate television serials. Such, however, was the controversy surrounding Valeriia Gai‐Germanika's 69‐part “Shkola” (“School”), shown on Russia's Channel 1 in 2010, that several Duma Deputies called for its banning. Filmed with hand‐held cameras and unknown actors, “Shkola” offered an uncompromising insight into problems afflicting Russian schools: racism, corruption, casual sex, suicide, drug‐taking, self‐harming, bullying, br…
Political and Cultural Representations of Muslims: Islam in the Plural
Relations between Muslims and non-Muslims have received unprecedented attention since 9/11. In many predominantly non-Muslim countries intense debates have focused on international relations with Muslim-majority states, but dilemmas of national policy and practice in incorporating domestic Muslim minorities have also provoked heated argument. Meanwhile, within predominantly Muslim societies, and within Muslim diasporas, relationships with non-Mus…
Islam, Security and Television News
Focusing on British, French and Russian television news coverage of Islam as a security threat, this book provides the first comparative account of how television broadcasting in different geo- and so
Fault Lines in Russia's Discourse of Nation: Television Coverage of the December 2010 Moscow Riots
This article analyzes Russian television news accounts of the December 2010 Manezhnaia riots that followed an ethnic Russian football fan's murder by a group of men from the North Caucasus. It focuses on the narrative struggle to reconcile official nation-building rhetoric with grassroots realities and broadcasters' own assumptions. Using the tools of media discourse analysis, Stephen Hutchings and Vera Tolz demonstrate that national television's…
Between Impartiality and Ideology: The BBC's paradoxical remit and the case of Islam-related television news
This article examines the paradoxical requirements of the BBC's public service broadcasting (PSB) remit, which prescribes impartiality, fairness and balance in news reporting but also requires the broadcaster to serve specified civic values deemed fundamental to British society. Since this combination of civic values is not ideologically neutral, it raises the question of how liberal ideological assumptions are communicated in news items purporti…
Television and Culture in Putin's Russia: Remote Control
This book examines television culture in Russia under the government of Vladimir Putin. In recent years, the growing influx into Russian television of globally mediated genres and formats has coincided with a decline in media freedom and a ratcheting up of government control over the content style of television programmes. All three national channels (First, Russia, NTV) have fallen victim to Putin’s power-obsessed regime. Journalists critical of…
Television and Culture in Putin's Russia: Remote Control
Russia and its Other(s) on Film: Screening Intercultural Dialogue
Russia's interactions with the West have been a perennial theme of Slavic Studies, and of Russian culture and politics. Likewise, representations of Russia have shaped the identities of many western c
The Post-Soviet Russian Media: Conflicting Signals
Introduction Birgit Beumers, Stephen Hutchings and Natalia Rulyova Part One: Media, Politics and State 1. Free to get rich and fool around Ivan Zassoursky 2. Where did it all go wrong? Russian television in the Putin era John A. Dunn 3. Shifting media and the failure of political communication in Russia Samuel A. Greene 4. The end of independent television? Elite conflict and the reconstructing the Russian television landscape Tina Burrett Part 2…
Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television: Mediating Post-Soviet Difference
Russia, one of the most ethno-culturally diverse countries in the world, provides a rich case study on how globalisation and associated international trends are disrupting, and causing the radical rethinking of approaches to, inter-ethnic cohesion. The book highlights the importance of television broadcasting in shaping national discourse and the place of ethno-cultural diversity within it. It argues that television’s role here has been reinforce…
Truth with a Z: Disinformation, war in Ukraine, and Russia’s contradictory discourse of imperial identity
This article offers a qualitative analysis of how, by adopting identity-related discourses whose meanings resonate within a given culture, Russian state propaganda strives to bolster “the truth status” of its Ukraine war claims. These discourses, we argue, have long historical lineages and thus are expected to be familiar to audiences. We identify three such discourses common in many contexts but with specific resonances in Russia, those of colon…
Television and Culture in Putin's Russia: Remote Control
This book examines television culture in Russia under the government of Vladimir Putin. In recent years, the growing influx into Russian television of globally mediated genres and formats has coincided with a decline in media freedom and a ratcheting up of government control over the content style of television programmes. All three national channels (First, Russia, NTV) have fallen victim to Putin’s power-obsessed regime. Journalists critical of…
Fault Lines in Russia's Discourse of Nation: Television Coverage of the December 2010 Moscow Riots
This article analyzes Russian television news accounts of the December 2010 Manezhnaia riots that followed an ethnic Russian football fan's murder by a group of men from the North Caucasus. It focuses on the narrative struggle to reconcile official nation-building rhetoric with grassroots realities and broadcasters' own assumptions. Using the tools of media discourse analysis, Stephen Hutchings and Vera Tolz demonstrate that national television's…
Between Impartiality and Ideology: The BBC's paradoxical remit and the case of Islam-related television news
This article examines the paradoxical requirements of the BBC's public service broadcasting (PSB) remit, which prescribes impartiality, fairness and balance in news reporting but also requires the broadcaster to serve specified civic values deemed fundamental to British society. Since this combination of civic values is not ideologically neutral, it raises the question of how liberal ideological assumptions are communicated in news items purporti…
Disinformation as process: Modeling the lifecycle of deceit
This article offers a new conceptual model of disinformation which accounts for the performative status of disinformation accusations, and the dialogistic interaction between accusers and accused, within a multi-aspectual dynamic process involving diverse actors (including those disassociated from various forms of deceit). The model shows how claims acquire or lose their disinformation status, as they transgress temporal, geopolitical, and lingua…
Writings on Literature
Universe of the Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Culture
La Letteratura Russa Del Novocento: Problemi di Poetica
A Semiotic Analysis of the Short Stories of Leonid Andreev 1900-1909
This thesis applies the techniques of semiotic analysis to a selection of short stories by Leonid Andreyev in an attempt to offer one answer to the problems of categorising Andreyev's unique art and placing it within a literary-evolutionary perspective. The semiotic method was chosen because of its ability both to assimilate literary texts to the supra-individual processes with which it works, and at the same time to delineate an author's particu…
A Semiotic Analysis of the Short Stories of Leonid Andreev, 1900-1909
Letters and Other Materials from the Moscow and Prague Linguistic Circles, 1912-1945
Ghosts in the machine: Literature as translation mechanism in post-Soviet televisual representations of western-ness
This article examines how Russian television's recent assimilation of western genres to its own cultural paradigms has influenced the development of a post-Soviet identity. Informed by W.J.T. Mitchell's theory of the importance of word—image thresholds, and by Iurii Lotman's conception of intercultural dialogue, it is based on light entertainment broadcasts recorded over the period 1999—2001 on the NTV channel. It argues that Russia's traditional…
Russian Literary Culture in the Camera Age: The Word As Image
This book explores how one of the world's most literary-oriented societies entered the modern visual era, beginning with the advent of photography in the nineteenth century, focusing then on literature's role in helping to shape cinema as a tool of official totalitarian culture during the Soviet period, and concluding with an examination of post-Soviet Russia's encounter with global television. As well as pioneering the exploration of this import…
Russian and Soviet Film Adaptations of Literature, 1900-2001: Screening the Word
Introduction: The Importance of the Ekranizatsiia in 20th Century Russian and Soviet Culture Stephen Hutchings and Anat Vernitski Part 1 Soviet Film Adaptations under Lenin and Stalin: Manufacturing the myth 1. Popular Literature in Film Adaptations of the NEP Period Ian Christie 2. Moving Images and Eye-deologies: Visuality and the political in the soviet screen adaptation of literature Helen Goscilo 3. National Historical Mythologies on the Sov…
Russian Literary Culture in the Camera Age: The Word as Image
Russian and Soviet Film Adaptations of Literature, 1900-2001: Screening the Word
Russia and its Other(s) on Film: Screening Intercultural Dialogue
Russia's interactions with the West have been a perennial theme of Slavic Studies, and of Russian culture and politics. Likewise, representations of Russia have shaped the identities of many western c
The Post-Soviet Russian Media: Conflicting Signals
Introduction Birgit Beumers, Stephen Hutchings and Natalia Rulyova Part One: Media, Politics and State 1. Free to get rich and fool around Ivan Zassoursky 2. Where did it all go wrong? Russian television in the Putin era John A. Dunn 3. Shifting media and the failure of political communication in Russia Samuel A. Greene 4. The end of independent television? Elite conflict and the reconstructing the Russian television landscape Tina Burrett Part 2…
Television and Culture in Putin's Russia: Remote Control
This book examines television culture in Russia under the government of Vladimir Putin. In recent years, the growing influx into Russian television of globally mediated genres and formats has coincided with a decline in media freedom and a ratcheting up of government control over the content style of television programmes. All three national channels (First, Russia, NTV) have fallen victim to Putin’s power-obsessed regime. Journalists critical of…
Television and Culture in Putin's Russia: Remote Control
Between Impartiality and Ideology: The BBC's paradoxical remit and the case of Islam-related television news
This article examines the paradoxical requirements of the BBC's public service broadcasting (PSB) remit, which prescribes impartiality, fairness and balance in news reporting but also requires the broadcaster to serve specified civic values deemed fundamental to British society. Since this combination of civic values is not ideologically neutral, it raises the question of how liberal ideological assumptions are communicated in news items purporti…
Political and Cultural Representations of Muslims: Islam in the Plural
Relations between Muslims and non-Muslims have received unprecedented attention since 9/11. In many predominantly non-Muslim countries intense debates have focused on international relations with Muslim-majority states, but dilemmas of national policy and practice in incorporating domestic Muslim minorities have also provoked heated argument. Meanwhile, within predominantly Muslim societies, and within Muslim diasporas, relationships with non-Mus…
Islam, Security and Television News
Focusing on British, French and Russian television news coverage of Islam as a security threat, this book provides the first comparative account of how television broadcasting in different geo- and so
Fault Lines in Russia's Discourse of Nation: Television Coverage of the December 2010 Moscow Riots
This article analyzes Russian television news accounts of the December 2010 Manezhnaia riots that followed an ethnic Russian football fan's murder by a group of men from the North Caucasus. It focuses on the narrative struggle to reconcile official nation-building rhetoric with grassroots realities and broadcasters' own assumptions. Using the tools of media discourse analysis, Stephen Hutchings and Vera Tolz demonstrate that national television's…
Globalisation, Freedom and the Media after Communism: The Past As Future
Symposium Editors' Introduction Birgit Beumers, Stephen Hutchings and Natalia Rulyova * The Struggle for Press Freedom in Russia: Reflections of a Russian Journalist Nadezhda Azhgikhina * The Next General Elections in Russia: What Role for the Media? Daphne Skillen * The Neo-Soviet Model of the Media Sarah Oates * Mass Media and the Information Climate in Russia Hedwig de Smaele * The Local and the International in Russian Business Journalism: St…
Serializing National Cohesion: Channel 1's “Shkola” and the Contradictions of Post‐Soviet “Consensus Management”
Parliaments rarely debate television serials. Such, however, was the controversy surrounding Valeriia Gai‐Germanika's 69‐part “Shkola” (“School”), shown on Russia's Channel 1 in 2010, that several Duma Deputies called for its banning. Filmed with hand‐held cameras and unknown actors, “Shkola” offered an uncompromising insight into problems afflicting Russian schools: racism, corruption, casual sex, suicide, drug‐taking, self‐harming, bullying, br…
(Un)covering alterity
This chapter examines the initially subdued role of ethnicity in television&s;s approach to consensus management as it struggled to negotiate the competing demands of the democratic and nationalist oppositions. Ethnicity&s;s centrality to the hegemonic process is indicated by the subliminal manner in which it colours the corruption theme so ubiquitous in Russian political discourse. The chapter examines the role of Naval&s;nyi&s;s own populist ca…
Transcending marginality
This chapter focuses on how challenges have been manifested, on why such a development might occur and on what it tells about the relationship between the Kremlin and federal broadcasters, through the prism of television coverage of migration issues. The selection of officials and experts is such that only a minority of the speakers support the Kremlin-endorsed position, namely, that migration is essential for the country&s;s economy and that int…
Mapping an uncertain terrain
This chapter focuses the television&s;s ability to perform state television&s;s balancing act was tested severely during the ethno-racially motivated riots in Moscow in December 2010. In addition to Channel 1 and Rossiia, the author analyse relevant news reports by NTV and REN TV. Conflicting information about the Manezhnaia disturbances was refracted by the four channels through a set of consistently utilized interpretative lenses reflecting off…
An unholy scandal
The scandal took place on the eve of the presidential elections, and in the context of the liberal opposition&s;s criticism of the Moscow Patriarchate for offering its overt support to Putin. Prime among the discursive displacements from the Pussy Riot scandal was the paranoid vitriol launched by the Orthodox Church and the hyperbolic professions of piety. The Moscow Times singled out from among the prosecution&s;s far-fetched accusations the cha…
Political science (21 works) · Art (13 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (12 works) · History (11 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (10 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Media studies (8 works)