The article considers the dynamics of the TV and Internet consumption of different cohorts under the dramatic changes in the Russian media landscape. In the last decade, the media environment has reached the mass scale in the use of the latest communication technologies based on the high-speed mobile Internet and its various apps. The results of the comparison of the studies of 2012 and 2017 indicate multidirectional trends: an increase in the average daily time of the Internet use in the middle-age and partly elder cohorts, and a moderate increase in the younger groups. The duration of TV viewing is a cyclic phenomenon determined by the stages of life cycle and socialization: the TV consumption of the same cohorts tends to decrease in a five-year interval. According to the theory of media substitution, the Internet is partly a functional alternative to TV for it allows the needs of the audience to be more fully satisfied and to develop on the basis of new technological opportunities. The article also considers features of the media consumption of the digital generation (millennials). This group is internally very different: it consists of several age and social-professional subgroups with serious differences in the average daily TV and Internet consumption. All these trends of the media consumption changed under the covid-19 crisis: changes in the mode of life and a fundamentally different information agenda determined an increase in the media use, primarily TV and the Internet. The long-term trend of the gradual decrease of the TV-audience changed: the average TV viewing increased in all cohorts. Under the crisis, the leading functions of the media - information and recreation - are more in demand than before.
Media is one of the most important social institutions that mediates the attitude of citizens to other institutions of society. Thus, one of the key features of the contemporary society is the trust of citizens in basic social institutions. The article considers the issue of public trust in the Russian media and focuses on the question to what extent the trust of Russian citizens in the mass media depends on the trust in other state and public institutions. The authors’ conclusions are based on the comparative empirical studies in the metropolitan region conducted in 2016-2018. The data show that people do not really trust in media: about a half of respondents do not trust this institution. This is a common trend for the post-Soviet period in general. The authors used binary logistic regression, and found out that distrust in media is significantly correlated with distrust in other institutions such as the president, State Duma, law enforcement agencies, political parties, church, banks and businesses. Moreover, according to the statistical model, the lack of trust in media is determined by social-economic problems, general dissatisfaction with political system, and negative attitudes to media content and its role in the society. When studying trust in media one should take into account the ongoing transformations of media landscape: today the most trusted media are Internet and television (practically the same level of trust). There is also a clear age differentiation: trust in media generally grows with age, although the situation is opposite considering trust in the Internet. The development of media technologies and online services and networks makes it increasingly difficult to assess the level of public trust in media and other institutions.
ТРАДИЦИОННАЯ РЕЛИГИОЗНОСТЬ И НЕТРАДИЦИОННЫЕ РЕЛИГИОЗНЫЕ УЧЕНИЯ В ЖИЗНИ РОССИЙСКОЙ МОЛОДЕЖИ:СОЦИАЛЬНО-ПЕДАГОГИЧЕСКИЕ АСПЕКТЫ (региональный социологический опыт)Кублицкая Елена Александровна, кандидат философских наук, ведущий научный сотрудник, руководитель Центра социологии религии и социокультурных процессов, Институт социально-политических исследований РАН, Москва, Россия.Лютенко Ирина Викторовна, магистр социологии, младший научный сотрудник Центра социологии религии и социокультурных процессов, Институт социально-политических исследований РАН, Москва, Россия. Abstract. This material analyzes the empirical indicators of a sociological research (2018) in theMoscow metropolis, which characterize the involvement of young people in religious and secularization processes. The article also discusses the importance of non-traditional religions and esoteric teachings in the life of young people. Today, the religious identity of young people is formed under the influence of modern culture and value orientations of society. Due to social changes, which are often negative in nature, there is a massive decrease in spirituality and the importance of traditional values, as a result of which new specific views on religion as a whole appear. It is typical for modern youth to perceive religion as a set of certain prescriptions adopted in their midst. Any person needs faith to achieve a particular goal in life. Disappointed and not finding help in the ideological constructions of idealism, monarchism, Marxism, traditional faiths, the individual seeks a way out of the ideological vacuum in various kinds of non-traditional religious movements, esoteric practices. The individual chooses from a huge variety of teachings those views that, in his opinion, reflect his worldview identity in relation to religion and atheism. An individual can be a carrier of several worldview positions that not only coexist, but can complement each other. It is quite natural that among the religious and non-religious population there are respondents who are interested in non-traditional religious movements and esoteric teachings.
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