Abstract:Архангельская область по протестной активности в 2018—2019 гг. заняла одну из лидирующих позиций среди всех регионов России. Это было вызвано решением региональных властей начать на станции Шиес строительство мусорного полигона для размещения твердых бытовых отходов из Москвы и Московской области. В связи с тем, что ключевую роль в мобилизации граждан сыграли социальные медиа, целью данного исследования стало выявление роли дискуссии в социальных медиа вокруг строительства мусорного полигона в усилении протест… Show more
Social conflict is one of the key concepts for social studies, which, however, does not have generally accepted definitions. The purpose of the article is to clarify the main topics of conflict research in Russian media studies and determine their place within the context of the conflictology. We attempted to categorize and theoretically define these objects within the context of the Russian academic tradition, based on the content analysis of articles by Russian authors published in 2014–2021. As a result, eight types of conflict were described, as well as four thematic blocks were found, which together form the structure of the discourse of media and conflict studies. Thus, it is possible to identify several main vectors of scientific research in this field: strategies of conflict representation in the media, assessment of the impact of media on conflict, technologies of media influence and theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of conflict and media interaction. The study found that the field is currently not a unified system.
However, the interdisciplinarity of the research field determines its potential to become an independent field of studies that integrate conflictology and journalism theory, as well as media linguistics, sociology of audience, and social psychology. Such an integrated paradigm makes it possible to analyze the representation of social conflict in the contemporary media taking into account their influence on the dynamics of this conflict at every stage of its "life cycle".
Social conflict is one of the key concepts for social studies, which, however, does not have generally accepted definitions. The purpose of the article is to clarify the main topics of conflict research in Russian media studies and determine their place within the context of the conflictology. We attempted to categorize and theoretically define these objects within the context of the Russian academic tradition, based on the content analysis of articles by Russian authors published in 2014–2021. As a result, eight types of conflict were described, as well as four thematic blocks were found, which together form the structure of the discourse of media and conflict studies. Thus, it is possible to identify several main vectors of scientific research in this field: strategies of conflict representation in the media, assessment of the impact of media on conflict, technologies of media influence and theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of conflict and media interaction. The study found that the field is currently not a unified system.
However, the interdisciplinarity of the research field determines its potential to become an independent field of studies that integrate conflictology and journalism theory, as well as media linguistics, sociology of audience, and social psychology. Such an integrated paradigm makes it possible to analyze the representation of social conflict in the contemporary media taking into account their influence on the dynamics of this conflict at every stage of its "life cycle".
Studies of conflicts in socio-humanitarian knowledge have traditionally focused attention on the research of conflicts themselves, less attention has been paid to the features of their media representations depending on their types, types of media, as well as subsequent audience effects. In the context of increasing mediatization of social space, it seems relevant to analyze media-centric approaches to the study of conflicts, which may explain the formation of media conflictology as an autonomous area of research. Since the beginning of the 21st century, the study of the coverage of social conflicts in the media has become a prominent area of interdisciplinary research, complementing and combining the subject areas of conflictology and media studies that emerged in the 20th century. The emerging academic field has included the study of actors involved in the creation of media representations of conflicts, including traditional and new media, as well as various online communities of the digital media environment; analysis of the stages of the conflict and its consequences presented in the media; study of the influence of media communications on the “life cycle” of a conflict; consideration of a set of reasons for the representation of certain characteristics of the conflict in the media, including political, ideological and ethnocultural factors of the external environment; analysis of the intra- and extramedia context of the representation of the conflict and its features; research into the relationship between media representation of the conflict and the model and traditions of the national media system, regulatory conditions for media activity, the professional culture of a journalist and the communicative culture of society; studying the media-axiological aspect of the conflict.
The main purpose of current study is to review the main existing methodological approaches to the integration of survey data and digital traces that are used in sociological research. The paper examines key arguments in the current methodological discussion about the place of big digital data in contemporary social science research. The authors make an attempt to scrutinize the practice of integrating survey data and digital traces through the concept of “reactive – nonreactive” measurement. The possible functions of digital traces in the design of the study are indicated (on the example of social media data). On the example of three research areas (the study of media consumption, media effects and electoral behavior) general methodological principles for integrating data of different nature are demonstrated and possible prospects for the development of these approaches is described. The article discusses a wide range of methodological issues: problems of the data linking validity; potential threats to the validity of digital traces; opportunities to improve survey questionnaire, to enrich data, to search for new valid indicators of socio-political processes and to provide cross-validation of research results. The current practices of integrating administrative data are considered as well.
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