Entertainment interspersed with propaganda: how non-legacy-news accounts deliver explicitly political content to mass audiences on Russia’s most popular social network VK

Julia Kling, Florian Toepfl, Pascal Jürgens

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DOI: 10.1080/1369118x.2024.2420029
Published: 2024-11-15
Container: Information, Communication & Society
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@article{allodium:10.1080/1369118x.2024.2420029,
  title = {Entertainment interspersed with propaganda: how non-legacy-news accounts deliver explicitly political content to mass audiences on Russia’s most popular social network VK},
  author = {Julia Kling and Florian Toepfl and Pascal Jürgens},
  year = {2024},
  journal = {Information, Communication \&amp; Society},
  doi = {10.1080/1369118x.2024.2420029},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118x.2024.2420029}
}

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TI  - Entertainment interspersed with propaganda: how non-legacy-news accounts deliver explicitly political content to mass audiences on Russia’s most popular social network VK
AU  - Julia Kling
AU  - Florian Toepfl
AU  - Pascal Jürgens
PY  - 2024
JO  - Information, Communication &amp; Society
DO  - 10.1080/1369118x.2024.2420029
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Kling, J., Toepfl, F., & Jürgens, P. (2024). Entertainment interspersed with propaganda: how non-legacy-news accounts deliver explicitly political content to mass audiences on Russia’s most popular social network VK. Information, Communication & Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118x.2024.2420029

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