Myria Georgiou, LSE, and Marek Troszyński, Collegium Civitas, Warsaw recently travelled across the routes followed by many Ukrainian refugees: from the Poland-Ukraine borders to Polish cities and towns. Here, they recount their observations and findings about the nature of the border in…
Category: 6. Opinion
-
The communicative architecture of the wartime border: Control, hope and solidarity
-
Russia-Ukraine War: Who is winning the Info-War?
LSE’s Professor Bart Cammaerts discusses the contrast between the Ukrainian and Russian approaches to the information war that has emerged alongside the physical acts of war taking place.
The idea that “in war, truth is the first casualty” is regularly evoked during conflict, with noted…
Continue Reading
-
Russia: the west underestimates the power of state media
Stephen Cushion, Professor at Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Culture, at Cardiff University, explains just how different the media landscape is in Russia in comparison to that of many western countries, and the implications of this.
Many western countries have a wide range of…
Continue Reading
-
Britain’s post-humanitarian response to Ukraine: Preserving a racist migration regime
Lee Edwards, Professor of Strategic Communications and Public Engagement in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE, writes that even though the media coverage constructs Ukraine as an exceptional case of conflict and horror, Britain’s post-humanitarian response clearly…
Continue Reading
-
Why Zelenskyy’s ‘selfie videos’ are helping Ukraine win the PR war against Russia
Anjana Susarla, Professor of Information Systems at Michigan State University, explains how and why the Ukrainian president’s unusual communication tactics are succeeding in rallying support for his cause.
It seems straight out of an action movie: As the capital city becomes a war…
Continue Reading