Protest and Mass Media as varieties of communication: the problem of semantic interconnection
- Authors: Sapan I.E.1
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Affiliations:
- Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Issue: Vol 34, No 1 (2023)
- Pages: 99-111
- Section: Social practices
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0236-2007/article/view/126599
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S023620070024831-1
- ID: 126599
Abstract
The article contains an analysis of the phenomenon of protest based on the conceptual features of the system-communicative approach. The author makes an attempt to express the essential characteristics of protest as a form of social communication, which represents the mobilization of “society against society”, using the method of socio-philosophical analysis. This analysis raises the question of the potential of social networks and the Internet as a tool of protest activity, due to the close dependence of protest on the mass media as a special functional system. The author concludes that despite the wide reach of social media users, this resource is a weak mechanism for protest self-organization.
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About the authors
Ilia E. Sapan
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Author for correspondence.
Email: chelovek@iph.ras.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8300-1679
Russian Federation, 1, Leninskie Gory, Moscow 119991