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Rationale Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the proliferation of the Internet, scholars in the Commonwealth of Independent States and Eastern Europe have had increased access to information concerning research methods. Efforts on the part of international funding agencies, charities and contributions by individual scholars have contributed to the availability of academic literature from North America and from both Eastern and Western Europe. Much of the academic literature has been translated into Russian, and to a lesser extent into Ukrainian, and this has contributed to expanding university curricula with new data and new approaches.Despite the knowledge that academics have of various research methodologies, there remains a substantial gap between what they teach and the research methodologies that receive funding and/or departmental support. In many CIS countries, the selection of methodology for media studies research is frequently determined by the political leanings of the government. the semi-authoritarian nature of many regimes in the CIS has hindered your scholars from learning, practicing and conducting social science research. State support for politically impartial research is virtually non-existent in many CIS countries and international aid in the region is limited. as for commercially driven research, it has been allowed in the CIS to the degree that it does not interfere with a government¡¯s political policies. The continuing manipulation of election results in many CIS countries and Eastern Europe supports the need for studying research ethics, which young scholars can incorporate into their own research and in their teaching. Therefore, by expanding their base of knowledge to allow for new avenues of investigation and teaching methodologies, junior faculty participating in our program will no longer be confined to strictly Eastern European research traditions. |
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