Media confrontation technologies in the Belarusian political protest, 2020-2021

the article is devoted to the development of technologies in the media opposition to power and protest in the Belarusian protests 2020-2021. The protests in Belarus have become a new attempt at a "color revolution" with the maximization of the external factor and the media and communication capabilities of social networks. Technologically, there was an attempt to continue the development of technologies of the so-called “network protest”, where the media channel became not only an information resource, but also the organizational core of the protest. The existing media system in Belarus with its centralization and synchronization of the information flow, the connection of Russian media to this agenda, as well as the beginning of the active work of pro-state channels in social networks made it possible to ensure information dominance, bring down the peak of protest activity, and then completely neutralize it. On the Belarusian example, an effective toolkit for combating color revolution technologies is recorded in connection with a change in approaches to regulating media communications and anti-protest work of pro-state network media.

political protest, protests in Belarus, network protest, regulation of media communications