Information Wars in the Baltic States

lt;p> Janis Chakars is Associate Professor of Communication and Digital Media at Neumann University, USA.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: The Weight of History.- Chapter 2: Echoes of the Past: Media and History in the Baltic Battlespace.- Chapter 3: Russian Disinformation: The Forest Brothers, Baltic Resistance, and NATO.- Part II: The Weight of Ethnicity.- Chapter 4: Making Sense of Public Media in Times of Geo-Political Crisis: Latvian Public Media and their Ethno-Linguistic Majority and Minority Audiences.- Chapter 5: Building Bridges: Estonian- and Russian-Speaking TV Audiences and the Value of Estonian Public Service Broadcasting, 2010-2020.-Chapter 6: Building or Banning? Russian-Language TV in Latvia.- Part III: The Digital Challenges.- Chapter 7: Bots, Trolls, Elves, and the Information War in Lithuania: Theoretical Considerations and Practical Problems.- Chapter 8: Robotrolling in the Baltic States.- Part IV: The Responses,- Chapter 9: Disinformation Analysis and Citizen Activism in the "Post-Truth" Era: The Case of DebunkEU.org.- Chapter 10: The Perils of Defense in an Information War: Media, Minorities, and the Threat Next Door.- Chapter 11: NATO's Response to Information Warfare Threats.- Part V: The Complications.- Chapter 12: "Let Them Flee to Sweden: There, Everyone Looks at Them More Politely": Gay Propaganda and LGBT Rights in the Baltic States.- Chapter 13: The Best of Enemies: Identity, Recursion, and the Convergence of Kremlin and Estonian Strategic Narratives in the Global Populist Discourse.- Part VI: Epilogue.- Chapter 14: Epilogue: Baltic Journalists Respond to Disinformation.