This book is a follow-up to Mervi Pantti's Media and the Ukraine Crisis: Hybrid Media Practices and Narratives of Conflict (2016) considering the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
Göran Bolin and Per Ståhlberg: Understanding the Ukrainian Informational Order in the Face of the Russian War
Kateryna Boyko and Roman Horbyk: Swarm Communication in a Totalising War: Media Infrastructures, Actors and Practices in Ukraine during the 2022 Russian Invasion
Mervi Pantti and Matti Pohjonen: Social Media Platforms Responding to the Invasion of Ukraine
Part Two: The Use of Open-Source Intelligence
Jamie Matthews: Open-Source Actors and UK News Coverage of the War in Ukraine: Documenting the Impacts of Conflict and Incidents of Civilian Harm
Marc Tuters and Boris Noordenbos: Faking Sense of War: OSINT as pro-Kremlin Propaganda
Part Three: Everyday Media in War
Tom Divon and Moa Eriksson Krutrök: TikTok(ing) Ukraine: Memetic Expressions of Cultural Trauma on Social Media
Marja Lönnroth-Olin, Teemu Pauha, Satu Venäläinen, Rusten Menard and Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti: Grandma warriors on YouTube: Negotiating Intersectional Distinctions and De/legitimisations of the War in Ukraine
Part Four: News and Geopolitics
Johana Kotisová: The 'Emotional Gap'? Foreign Reporters, Local Fixers and the Outsourcing of Empathy
Antal Wozniak and Zixiu Liu: Indian Press coverage of Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
Simon Cottle: Reporting the War in Ukraine: Ecological Dissimulation in a Dying World
Andrew Hoskins: Afterword
Mette Mortensen is Professor at the Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen. Her research is concerned with media and conflict, visual media studies, and popular culture and populism. She is the author or editor of ten books, including the monograph Eyewitness Images and Journalism: Digital Media, Participation, and Conflict (2015) and the volume Social Media Images and Conflicts co-edited with Ally McCrow-Young (2023).
Mervi Pantti is Professor in Media and Communication at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki. Her research is concerned with conflict and disaster journalism, emotion in media, media and immigration, digital platforms, disinformation and media accountability. She is co-author of Disasters and the Media (with Karin Wahl-Jorgensen and Simon Cottle, Peter Lang 2012) and editor of Media and the Ukraine Crisis: Hybrid Media Practices and Narratives of Conflict (Peter Lang 2016).