Information Wars in the Baltic States: Russia's Long Shadow
In: The Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication Ser.
Intro -- Praise for Information Wars in the Baltic States -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- References -- Part I: The Weight of History -- Chapter 2: Echoes of the Past: Media and History in the Baltic Battlespace -- A Pattern of Political Instrumentalization -- Continuity and Change in the Baltic Information Wars -- References -- Chapter 3: Russian Disinformation: The Forest Brothers, Baltic Resistance, and NATO -- Disinformation Campaigns -- The Forest Brothers -- Resistance or Collaboration? -- What Does Disinformation Do Anyway? -- References -- Part II: The Weight of Ethnicity -- Chapter 4: Making Sense of Public Media in Times of Geo-Political Crisis: Latvian Public Media and their Ethno-Linguistic Majority and Minority Audiences -- Method -- Results -- Media Use -- Media-Related Perceptions: Public Media Ideals -- Skepticism toward Media: "They all Lie" -- Latvian-Speaking Audiences -- Russian-Speaking Audiences -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5: Building Bridges: Estonian- and Russian-Speaking TV Audiences and the Value of Estonian Public Service Broadcasting, 2010-2020 -- Position of Broadcasting -- Trustworthiness of Media Institutions -- Importance and Trustworthiness of News Sources -- Position of Public Broadcasting -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Building or Banning? Russian-Language TV in Latvia -- Russian-Language Television in Latvia from the Late Soviet Period to EU Accession: Reviving the State and Nation -- Post-Accession to Crimea: Media and Integration-Or the Failure Thereof -- Crisis in Ukraine: Strengthening Content on LTV, but Not Enough for a New Channel in Russian -- From Crimea to COVID-19: The Information War Heats Up -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III: The Digital Challenges.