TaRC and Russian Media Lab Network’s collaborative initiative Online Talks on Russian Media starts its second season! It promises to be an exciting year with monthly presentations on a wide variety of topics.
In the first Online Talk on Tuesday 14 September, TaRC’s very own Svetlana Pasti will present her research “BRICS journalism as a new territory for localizing journalism studies”. The paper, co-authored with Jyotika Ramaprasad, was published in the edited volume BRICS Media: Reshaping the Global Communication Order? (Routledge, 2021).
The paper takes a second look at some of the findings of an empirical study of BRICS journalists, reported earlier in two collaborative publications (Pasti and Ramaprasad, 2015, 2018), using the ethical and epistemological analytic techniques of the BRICS perspective as proposed by Albuquerque and Lycarião (2018).
The purpose of the paper is to situate interpretations locally – within the historical legacies and current dynamics of journalism, including its imported influences – in these countries.
The authors selected journalists’ beliefs about professionalism, functions of journalism and roles of journalists as variables to reconsider in this light because they comprise the essence of news. They also included social media use because it provides a new venue through which journalists practise their profession and deliver functions and roles, and is thus a new avenue to journalistic freedom.
Svetlana Pasti is University Researcher, Adjunct Professor at Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences (ITC) at Tampere University. Her research interests are in journalism studies and comparative research in the BRICS countries.
She is author of two monographs, A Russian Journalist in Context of Change: Media of St Petersburg (2004) and The Changing Profession of a Journalist in Russia (2007), plus over 40 peer-reviewed chapters and journal articles in publications such as Journal of Communication, European Journal of Communication, Brazilian Journalism Research, and Nordicom Review.
She is the author and co-editor The BRICS journalist: Profession and practice in the age of digital media (Special issue of African Journalism Studies, Routledge, 2015), and Contemporary BRICS Journalism (Routledge, 2018).
Svetlana Pasti’s talk will be held on Zoom on Tuesday 14 September, 12:00–13:30 Helsinki time (GMT+3). The discussion will be moderated by Docent, Senior Lecturer Katja Lehtisaari (Tampere University).
If you want to participate in Svetlana’s talk and receive emails about the next Online Talks, please leave your contact information on the registration form by noon on Monday 13 September.
If you have registered for Online Talks or on the Russian Media Lab Network email list before, no need to register again – we will send you the information!