Their Fight, Our News: A Case Study of Pussy Riot in British and Russian Online Media

Leur combat, notre actualité. Les Pussy Riot dans les médias en ligne britanniques et russes

Yuliya Moskvina (1, 2)

1 CEFRES - Centre Français de Recherche en Sciences Sociales
2 FSV UK - Fakulta sociálních věd, Univerzita Karlova [Praha, Česká republika] = Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University [Prague, Czech Republic]

Russian punk band Pussy Riot became famous after a performance in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow and a trial which came to be well-known worldwide. The paper com-pares Russian pro-Kremlin and liberal media to British conservative and liberal media in order to demonstrate how components of ideology reinforced the genesis of a critical actor in foreign news. In the Russian case, Pussy Riot, as a critical actor, did not appear in the news because of the ideological structures and role of the selected newspapers in the society. In the case of selected British online media, Pussy Riot was presented as an autonomous col-lective critical actor engaged in the process of politicization. Therefore, ideology embedded in foreign news can play not only a reductive role, as previous research has shown, but also a productive one, reinforcing the genesis of critique.

Mots clés: Foreign news; Critique; Ideology; Russia; Great Britain

Domaines: Sciences de l'information et de la communication; Sociologie

Yuliya Moskvina. Their Fight, Our News: A Case Study of Pussy Riot in British and Russian Online Media. Mediální studia // Media Studies. Journal for Critical Media Inquiry, 2019, 13 (2), pp.123-142. ⟨halshs-02914847⟩