The pre-conference was entitled “The Informational Influence of Autocracies Abroad” and focused on the exchange between scholars of communication science who conduct research on autocracies, propaganda and disinformation. You can find the full program in the linked PDF file.
Among other things, Prof. Dr. Florian Töpfl presented the studies and findings of the RUSINFORM research project:
Toepfl, F., Beseler, A., Kling, J., Kravets-Meinke, D., Poliakoff, S., & Ryzhova, A. (2024). The Kremlin’s foreign propaganda network: Consequences of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine [Conference presentation]. ECREA 2024 Pre-Conference: The Informational Influence of Autocracies Abroad, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 23.
Two studies from the RUSINFORM project were also presented during the ECREA main conference, which took place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from September 24 to 27, 2024:
Kravets, D., Meinert, A., Jungblut, M., & Toepfl, F. (2024). Language of law or language of imperialism? How the Kremlin justifies the full-scale invasion of Ukraine across the eight language editions of its foreign broadcaster RT [Conference presentation]. ECREA 2024, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 24–27.
Ryzhova, A. & Toepfl, F. (2024). “Being a journalist? It's very dangerous both there and here”: How russian speaking migrants deploy authoritarian folk theories about news media literacy to make sense of democratic news environments [Conference presentation]. ECREA 2024, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 24–27.