WEB RESOURCE- NewsLab Russia - For Students and Scholars of Post-Communist Russia

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WEB RESOURCE- NewsLab Russia - For Students & Scholars of Post-Communist Russia

Posted by: Serguei A. Oushakine <oushakin@princeton.edu>

Further information about NewsLab Russia, including registration
instructions and a link to the archive itself, are available at
www.creeca.wisc.edu/newslabeurasia.

The Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia at UW Madison has
launched an exciting new resource for students and scholars of
postcommunist Russia: NewsLab Russia, an online digital archive of
Russian television news. Part of NewsLab Eurasia, a broader effort to
archive the news in post-Soviet states, NewsLab Russia utilizes new
technology to make Russian news broadcasts available for analysis and
classroom use. In its first year of operation, NewsLab Russia
archived the main evening news broadcast on Russia's three national
television networks (NTV, Channel One, and Rossiya) during a period
that encompassed the 2007 Duma elections, the nomination of Dmitri
Medvedev to succeed Vladimir Putin as president, and the 2008 Russian
presidential election. Support for this initial round of archiving
was provided by the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian
Studies at UT Austin.

NewsLab Russia draws on the resources of the University of Wisconsin
NewsLab, a project initiated by Wisconsin political scientist Ken
Goldstein to study local U.S. news. Content from Russia is "captured"
from satellite feed and stored on servers in Madison, where
Russian-speaking undergraduates "clip" the news, dividing broadcasts
into segments and attaching category labels to each segment. Through
an online searchable archive, anyone with an Internet connection who
is willing to abide by basic terms of use has access to broadcasts
from all three stations. Thus, for example, a teacher of Russian
might search for a news segment on Russian-Ukrainian relations for
instructional use, or a scholar might analyze all reports on Ukraine
over a one-year period.

Further information about NewsLab Russia, including registration
instructions and a link to the archive itself, are available at
www.creeca.wisc.edu/newslabeurasia.

Ted Gerber, Director, CREECA, and Professor of Sociology, UW Madison
Jennifer Tishler, Associate Director, CREECA
Scott Gehlbach, Associate Professor of Political Science, UW Madison

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