Description
Book SynopsisThis edited volume, featuring accomplished scholars, is about the information wars in the Baltic states, a battle that pits Russia against the West with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as sites of contention for great power politics. Chapters address responses from titular populations, local Russian speakers, national governments, activists, journalists, and NATO, as well as the impact of Russian foreign policy on media.
Table of ContentsChapter 1: IntroductionPart I: The Weight of History
Chapter 2: Echoes of the Past: Media and History in the Baltic Battlespace
Chapter 3: Russian Disinformation: The Forest Brothers, Baltic Resistance, and NATOPart II: The Weight of EthnicityChapter 4: Making Sense of Public Media in Times of Geo-Political Crisis: Latvian Public Media and their Ethno-Linguistic Majority and Minority AudiencesChapter 5: Building Bridges: Estonian- and Russian-Speaking TV Audiences and the Value of Estonian Public Service Broadcasting, 2010–2020Chapter 6: Building or Banning? Russian-Language TV in LatviaPart III: The Digital ChallengesChapter 7: Bots, Trolls, Elves, and the Information War in Lithuania: Theoretical Considerations and Practical ProblemsChapter 8: Robotrolling in the Baltic StatesPart IV: The ResponsesChapter 9: Disinformation Analysis and Citizen Activism in the “Post-Truth” Era: The Case of DebunkEU.orgChapter 10: The Perils of Defense in an Information War: Media, Minorities, and the Threat Next Door
Chapter 11: NATO’s Response to Information Warfare Threats
Part V: The Complications
Chapter 12: “Let Them Flee to Sweden: There, Everyone Looks at Them More Politely”: Gay Propaganda and LGBT Rights in the Baltic States
Chapter 13: The Best of Enemies: Identity, Recursion, and the Convergence of Kremlin and Estonian Strategic Narratives in the Global Populist Discourse
Part VI: Epilogue
Chapter 14: Epilogue: Baltic Journalists Respond to Disinformation
