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Book Talk by
Jon Roozenbeek, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge
Moderated by Emily Channell-Justice, Director of the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
IN-PERSON and ONLINE via Zoom Webinar (live). Registration is required to attend online.
About the Book
Russia's invasion of Ukraine is one of the most important conflicts of the twenty-first century. With the start of military hostilities in 2014 also came an onslaught of propaganda, to both convince and confuse audiences worldwide about the war's historical and ideological underpinnings. Based on extensive research drawing on tens of thousands of news articles and hundreds of pages of legal documents and internal correspondence, this book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the role of propaganda, ideology, and identity in the Russian-Ukrainian war. It argues that, despite Russia's efforts to set up a media machine at home and abroad with eight years of propaganda legitimising Russia's presence in eastern Ukraine, Russia never managed to vocalise a convincing alternative to Ukrainian nationhood. Instead, Russian propaganda backfired: Ukraine is now more united than ever before. [Source]
About the Author
Jon Roozenbeek is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses broadly on the psychology of intergroup conflict and (digital) media effects, along two major themes: modern propaganda and information warfare (with a specialisation in the Russian-Ukrainian war), and understanding and countering misinformation, disinformation, and extremism. As part of this work, he co-developed the award-winning fake news games Bad News, Harmony Square and Go Viral. Jon is the author of two forthcoming books, both with Cambridge University Press: The Psychology of Misinformation and Propaganda and Ideology in the Russian-Ukrainian War.
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