(East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies) Incontemporary societies, mass media are increasingly important as a means of both communication and discursive representation. Media interaction is one of the main practices where people use language to learn about others and tell about themselves. Hence, it is one of the key sites for constructing identities and articulating ideologies. As technological means of mediated communication evolve, so too do ways in which people use them to exchange their beliefs about themselves and the world, and, with just a little delay, methods scholars employ to study these exchanges. It is therefore no wonder that studies of media communication and representation is one of the most vibrant fields within the social sciences and the humanities. Apart from those specializing in it, media attract scholars primarily working in linguistics, anthropology, sociology, political science, history, and other disciplines. […]
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Contents
Editorial
From the Editor-in-Chief: Publicity and Initiatives for EWJUS
Svitlana (Lana) Krys
Articles
Introduction: Language, Identity, and Ideology in Ukrainian Media
Volodymyr Kulyk, Alla Nedashkivska
Discourses on Languages and Identities in Readers’ Comments in Ukrainian Online News Media: An Ethnolinguistic Identity Theory Perspective
Roman Horbyk
Argumentation and Aggression: About Maps and Poems in the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict
Holger Kuße
Between the “Self” and the “Other”: Representations of Ukraine’s Russian-speakers in Social Media Discourse
Volodymyr Kulyk
“Re-Imagining” the Homeland? Languages and National Belonging in Ukrainian Diasporas since the Euromaidan
Ivan Kozachenko
Identity in Interaction: Language Practices and Attitudes of the Newest Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada
Alla Nedashkivska
The “German Intrigue” as an Element of the Anti-Ukrainian Campaign: A Case Study of Kyiv’s Russian Language Press, 1914-18
Ivan Basenko
Featured Reviews
Larysa Masenko. Mova radians’koho totalitaryzmu [The Language of Soviet Totalitarianism].
Michael Moser
Natalya Ryabinska. Ukraine’s Post-Communist Mass Media: Between Capture and Commercialization.
Dariya Orlova
Book Reviews
Review of Larissa M. L. Zaleska Onyshkevych, compiler, editor, and with introductory essays. An Anthology of Modern Ukrainian Drama.
Oksana Lutsyshyna
Lucien J. Frary and Mara Kozelsky, editors. Russian-Ottoman Borderlands: The Eastern Question Reconsidered.
Virginia Aksan
Olga Bertelsen, compiler, editor, and with an introduction and notes. Les’ Kurbas i teatr “Berezil'”: Arkhivni dokumenty (1927-1988) [Les’ Kurbas and the Berezil’ Theatre: Archival Documents (1927-1988)].
Mayhill C. Fowler
Lisa Grekul and Lindy Ledohowski, editors. Unbound: Ukrainian Canadians Writing Home.
Valerii Polkovsky
Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann. State Food Crimes.
Bohdan Klid
Bohdan S. Kordan. No Free Man: Canada, the Great War, and the Enemy Alien Experience.
J.-Guy Lalande
Orest T. Martynowych. Social Structure, Religious Institutions, and Mass Organizations.
Thomas M. Prymak
Christian Raffensperger. Ties of Kinship: Genealogy and Dynastic Marriage in Kyivan Rus’.
Oleksandr Fylypchuk
Vitalii Shchepans’kyi. Kistka shamana: Narys z istorii rann’omodernoho slov”ians’koho ezoteryzmu [The Shaman’s Bone: Sketch of the History of Early Modern Slavic Esotericism].
Oleg Kyselov
Orest Subtelny with Orest Dzulynsky et al. Plast: Ukrainian Scouting, a Unique Story.
Peter Melnycky
Anne Applebaum. Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine.
Alexander J. Motyl
