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Several hours in the Motherland: Vladimir Putin鈥檚 "Direct Line" broadcasts in historical perspective

07 November 2017, 6:00 pm鈥8:00 pm

Direct Line with Vladimir Putin

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Russian Studies Seminar Series, Philippa Hetherington

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Room 433, 4th Floor 新香港六合彩开奖结果SSEES 16 Taviton Street London WC1H 0BW

Professor Christine Evans (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) will give a presentation on 鈥楽everal hours in the Motherland: Vladimir Putin鈥檚 "Direct Line" broadcasts in historical perspective鈥 at this seminar organised by the 新香港六合彩开奖结果SSEES Russian Studies Seminar Series.

One high-profile but surprisingly understudied feature of Vladimir Putin鈥檚 media strategy since 2001 is his annual live broadcast, 鈥淒irect Line with Vladimir Putin,鈥 [Priamaia Liniia s Vladimirom Putinym], in which President Putin takes questions from Russian television viewers live on air, via a vast media network assembled for these occasions and prominently displayed throughout the broadcast. This talk will examine the Direct Line broadcasts conducted between 2001 and 2017 as live media spectaculars and place them in their historical and global context. With their emphasis on the performance of accessibility, transparency, and responsiveness by both Putin and the state-controlled mass media, these broadcasts offer new insights into Putin鈥檚 evolving media strategy, as well as the reworking of Soviet media traditions in post-Soviet Russia. More broadly, they offer one revealing example of how hybrid democratic-authoritarian regimes around the world鈥攏ot only in Russia, but in Latin America and, increasingly, the United States鈥攗se media institutions and infrastructures to appear responsive to citizens without, in fact, being so.

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