Elena Vartanova is Full Professor, Dean and Chair in Media Theory and Media Economics at the Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia). Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Education. Member of the Presidential Council on the Russian Language. Board member of the Higher Attestation Commission. President of the Russian National Association of Media Researchers (NAMMI). Her research focuses on Russian and foreign media systems, media economics, digital transformation, digital divide, journalism and media studies in Russia in a global context e.t.c. Member of ICA, IAMCR, ECREA, EMMA and Euromedia Research Group. Executive Board Member of IMMAA. Vartanova is editor in chief of “World of Media. Journal of Russian Media and Journalism Studies”, Medi@almanac” and “Mediascope” Russian academic journals. Her research articles, monographs and manuals are translated into many foreign languages and published all around the world.

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