The Influence of Digital Communications on Political Participation

Васильевич, Пырма Роман

doi:10.26794/2226-7867-2019-9-4-63-69

Gumanitarnye nauki

2019

DOI: 10.26794/2226-7867-2019-9-4-63-69

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The Influence of Digital Communications on Political Participation

Пырма Роман Васильевич

Abstract: ПырмаРоманВасильевич ,канд. полит. наук, доцент Департамента политологии и массовых коммуникаций, Финансовый университет, Москва, Россия rpyrma@gmail.com Аннотация. В статье проведен обзор исследований, оценивающих эффекты влияния цифровых технологий коммуникации на политическое участие граждан. Политическое участие понимается как проявление гражданской активности. Автор рассматривает изменения форм политического участия граждан при переходе цифровых коммуникаций от однонаправленных информационных техноло… Show more

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Social media infrastructure of the Russians civic participation: the analysis of audience intersection graphs for socio-political communities on Runet

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Васильевич

Александрович

2021

Vestnik Instituta Sotziologii

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The article presents the results of the analysis of the digital infrastructure of civil and political participation of Russians, it shows the connections between the audiences of online network communities, reflecting markers of the attitude of Russian social media users to the current government and indicators of the involvement of Russian citizens in the implementation of social initiatives. To construct graphs, we used a tool for unloading information and modeling the infrastructure of social connections of graphs, created on the basis of the programming language R. Additionally, the vkR packages were used to unload information from the VKontakte social network, as well as the igraph and ggraph packages for working with graphs and arcdiagram for visualisation. To interpret the empirical data, the principles of the network approach and the methodology of smart search for digital markers of socio-political processes were applied. As a result of the study, indicators of the density of communications between digital groups of political and civil participation were revealed, and the intersection of their audiences was established. Segments of the infrastructure of connections are shown both for all socio-media communities (research cases) and for each block of communities classified on two grounds: orientation (loyal or critically oriented towards the authorities) and type of group (political or civil). The intersection of audiences of loyalist and oppositional online communities was revealed and reflected in the graphs. The disunity and distance between loyalist, conventional audiences of groups carrying out political communication from civil groups, who are also constructively disposed towards the authorities, are shown. Revealed and graphically interpreted the techniques of capturing the user audience in the activities of opposition online leaders. Risks of a low density of connections between audiences of loyal social media communities have been substantiated. A relatively high density of connections has been established between opposition political online groups aimed at forming unconventional, deconsolidating attitudes of Russian social media users. Basic measures have been formulated to overcome the danger of consolidating supporters of opposition digital groups and the risks of increasing the influence of critical online leaders among the loyalist audience.

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Social media infrastructure of the Russians civic participation: the analysis of audience intersection graphs for socio-political communities on Runet

Юрьевна

Васильевич

Александрович

2021

Vestnik Instituta Sotziologii

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Engagement of Russian Citizens in Public Participation Online

Parma

2022

Russian Foundation for Basic Research Journal. Humanities and Social Sciences

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The author examines the process of involving Russian citizens in public activity through digital communication by creating an online environment for information distribution, content sharing, and coordination of actions. The study explores the ways of engaging citizens in social and political forms of public participation in the view of increasing influence of digital communication. The study is aimed at determining the extent to which digital communication on social media influences social participation and citizen engagement. The objectives of the study were to identify ways of engagement, appealing content, level of impact, users’ reactions, and preferred communities. The study method is based on networking and neo-behavioural approaches. The study employs the method of sociological online survey (N = 1,600) of social media users. The results of the study concluded that the involvement in social participation online is mostly through the consumption of information content, and less through targeted social media messages, which proved to be infrequent. Participation in social media communities for civic initiatives depends on a large extent on the focus of activities. Social media initiatives focused on solving citizen’s common problems, providing assistance to people in need, and environmental issues are the most popular among citizens. Politicized communities are the least attractive, revealing the dominant attitude among Russian citizens to avoid political participation.

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Protest Moods of Russian Youth in a Digital Network

Васильевич

2020

Gumanitarnye nauki

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This article discusses the protest activity of Russian youth in social media as one of the aspects of the concept of “digital citizenship”. The relevance of the study is due to the expanding influence of digital communications, the possibilities of initiating, disseminating, coordinating and mobilising protest actions in social media. The author outlines the main approaches to the study of the “ageing” of the mood of protest in the digital environment. Based on sociological research, the areas of interest of young users of digital communication are determined, and civic activity of young people is compared online and offline. In the course of the study, the intensity of protest messages on the Internet and social media was established, and the topics of protest content in the digital environment were determined. The study allowed us to identify the most common patterns of behaviour as the reaction of young Internet users to calls for protest actions. The author conducts a role differentiation of the protest audience by gender and age groups, in the direction of training and time spent on the network, as well as ways to receive online news. The research data obtained are correlated with current trends in civic activity in modern societies. Finally, the author indicated the underlying factors contributing to the growth of protest moods.

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The Influence of Digital Communications on Political Participation

Cited by 8 publications

References 35 publications

Social media infrastructure of the Russians civic participation: the analysis of audience intersection graphs for socio-political communities on Runet

Social media infrastructure of the Russians civic participation: the analysis of audience intersection graphs for socio-political communities on Runet

Engagement of Russian Citizens in Public Participation Online

Protest Moods of Russian Youth in a Digital Network

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