Talk Eastern Europe

Episode 58: Peter Pomerantsev on polarization and the digital reality


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In this special episode of Talk Eastern Europe, Adam sits down with Peter Pomerantsev, expert on disinformation and author of the recent book: “This is not Propaganda. Adventures in the war against Reality”. They discuss the recent report looking at roots of polarization in Ukraine, his current assessment of disinformation campaigns (especially ahead of the US elections) and some reflections on the situation in Belarus.

Resources
- From “Memory Wars” to a Common Future: Overcoming Polarisation in Ukraine https://www.lse.ac.uk/iga/assets/documents/From-Memory-Wars.pdf

- This is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality (2019). https://www.amazon.com/This-Not-Propaganda-Adventures-Against/dp/0571338631

(In Polish) "To nie jest propaganda" https://wydawnictwo.krytykapolityczna.pl/to-nie-jest-propaganda-885

- Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia (2015) https://www.amazon.com/Nothing-True-Everything-Possible-Surreal/dp/1610396006

Additional music featured in the podcast: Time Travel by Frank Schröter. Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6784-time-travel- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Talk Eastern Europe is produced by Maciej Makulski and Adam Reichardt. The podcast is affiliated with New Eastern Europe. Published by the Jan Nowak-Jezioranski College of Eastern Europe in Wroclaw. Additional funding for this episode came from the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the framework of the “Public Diplomacy 2020 – New dimension” grant programme.
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