Volha Kananovich

Volha Kananovich
University of Iowa | UI · School of Journalism and Mass Communication

PhD in Economics, PhD in Mass Communication

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Publications (10)
Technical Report
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Public Scholarship: Interviewing 64 U.S. political journalists, we found that many of them have come to view their outlets’ political endorsements as a liability.
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This study tests the robustness of the “protest paradigm”—a routinized, predominantly negative pattern in covering social protest—by examining the news coverage of the 2021 US Capitol attack in eight countries that vary in the nature of their political regime and geopolitical standing, with democratic US allies United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Fran...
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The age of digital, and especially social, media has increased the volume of information users encounter and the mediated interactions users are involved in or observe. This study analyzes young adults’ understanding of harmful content online to identify folk theories, the explanations and predictions users develop to help guide their judgments and...
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This study investigates the effects of competing frames in newspaper coverage of offshore outsourcing, an issue that is characterized by a predominantly negative, unemployment-focused media framing. The findings of a randomized, controlled experiment (N = 152) demonstrate that conventional framing effects do hold for this issue and for this media c...
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Taxpaying constitutes a major opportunity for citizens to relate to their governments. Although it is true that paying taxes is a responsibility, it also entitles citizens to claim control over government spending, which may facilitate a greater democratization of a country’s political regime. Consistent with this reasoning, a growing body of schol...
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This textual analysis traces the framing of the 2011-2012 anti-Kremlin protests in Russia by the nation's most popular tabloid, Komsomol'skaya Pravda. The findings show that the otherwise agnostic newspaper came to adopt Vladimir Putin's rhetoric challenging the protesters, who represented the emerging, Internet-savvy, professional "creative class....
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From the first seconds of Pussy Riot’s most famous February 2012 performance in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior to the questionable trial that made headlines around the world to their widely publicized release in December 2013, media coverage has been an integral part of Pussy Riot’s activism. This study examines the media coverage of the a...
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In February 2012, in the full swing of the then-current presidential campaign in Russia, a short video of the “Pussy Riot” feminist band, beseeching the Virgin Mary to “drive Putin away” while performing a wild dance in front of the altar of Russia's major Orthodox Cathedral, was uploaded to YouTube. The performance was followed by the rapid arrest...
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In February 2012, less than two weeks before that year’s presidential elections in Russia, a two-minute video of young women in brightly colored masks and short dresses was uploaded to YouTube. The video featured four members of the Pussy Riot punk feminist band performing a wild dance in front of the altar of Russia’s main Orthodox temple, the Cat...

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