Studies in Contemporary Journalism and Communication in Russia's Provinces

This book examines the contemporary communicational practices of journalists and media outlets and the consumption and reception patterns of audiences in Russia's provinces with an emphasis upon the intergenerational transmission of culture and memory.

Greg Simons is currently a researcher at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies (IRES) at Uppsala University, a lecturer in the Department of Communication Science and leading researcher at the Business Technology Institute at Turiba University in Riga, Latvia, and a leading researcher at the Humanitarian Institute at Ural Federal University in Yekaterinburg, Russia. He is on the Senior Editorial Board of the Journal for Political Marketing. Anna Sumskaya received her PhD degree in pedagogical sciences at Chelyabinsk State Pedagogical University in 2005, and since 2019 she has been an applicant for the degree of Doctor of Philology. Anna has been an associate professor in Television and Other Screen Arts since 2016. From 2008 to 2018 she worked at the Faculty of Journalism of the Chelyabinsk State University, and from 2016 to the present ¿ at the Faculty of Journalism of the Ural Federal University (Yekaterinburg, Russia).