Projecting Russia in a Mediatized World

This book presents a new perspective on how Russia projects itself to the world. Distancing itself from familiar agency-driven International Relations accounts that focus on what ‘the Kremlin’ is up to and why it argues for the need to pay attention to deeper trans-state processes over which the Kremlin exerts much less control. Especially important in this context is mediatization defined as the process by which contemporary social and political practices adopt a media form and follow media-driven logics. In particular the book emphasizes the logic of the feedback loop or ‘recursion’ showing how it drives multiple Russian performances of national belonging and nation projection in the digital era. It applies this theory to recent issues events and scandals that have played out in international arenas ranging from television through theatre film and performance art to warfare.The Open Access version of this book available at taylorfrancis has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.