Russia, Disinformation and the Liberal Order: RT as Populist Pariah
Forthcoming with Cornell University Press in October 2024, new book on disinformation and liberal democracy 'Russia, Disinformation and the Liberal Order: RT as Populist Pariah', based on first full analysis of RT, the Kremlin’s primary foreign propaganda tool by Stephen Hutchings, Vera Tolz, Precious Chatterje-Doody, Rhys Crilley and Marie Gillespie.
Russia, Disinformation and the Liberal Order
- interrogates and critiques commonplace notions of disinformation
- investigates the threat it poses to democracy via first systematic analysis of RT, the Kremlin’s primary foreign propaganda tool
- illuminates wider communications strategies pursued by authoritarian states and grassroots populist movements
- reveals the interlinked nature of global media-politics pathologies
- argues that the challenge they pose requires reflection on liberalism's own blind spots, and a vigorous defence of open-minded impartiality
The book provides insights into RT's
- institutional culture, and journalistic ethos
- activities across multiple languages and media platforms
- audience-targeting strategies and audience engagement
- stance on Ukraine war and on Western responses to it
- reflexive relationship with pariah status reinforced by those responses
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