Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/19409419.2021.1972829
G. Tulchinskii
ABSTRACT The intensive transformation of literally all spheres of life in modern society stimulates the search for an adequate conceptual apparatus in order to understand these processes. The purpose of this work is to show the possibilities of applying semiotic analysis to social-cultural phenomena and processes, which involves going beyond the traditional limitation of semiotics with linguistic phenomena and the reduction of social semiotics to the pragmatic contexts of language use. At the same time, particular attention is given to approaches and developments obtained in the last quarter of the previous century by Russian-speaking authors such as Yuri Lotman, Georgy Bogin, Aron Brudnyj, Tamara Dridze, Aleksandr Portnov, Vladimir Sulimov, as well as their colleagues and students. The priority function and significance of the developments of the aforementioned authors and schools is specifically associated with the discovery of non-trivial possibilities of the semiotic approach, which goes beyond considering the peculiarities of using language in various social practices for the semiotic analysis of such practices themselves.
{"title":"Social semiotics: communicative and socio-cultural practices. The Russian-speaking contribution to the development of social semiotics in 1970–2000s","authors":"G. Tulchinskii","doi":"10.1080/19409419.2021.1972829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19409419.2021.1972829","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The intensive transformation of literally all spheres of life in modern society stimulates the search for an adequate conceptual apparatus in order to understand these processes. The purpose of this work is to show the possibilities of applying semiotic analysis to social-cultural phenomena and processes, which involves going beyond the traditional limitation of semiotics with linguistic phenomena and the reduction of social semiotics to the pragmatic contexts of language use. At the same time, particular attention is given to approaches and developments obtained in the last quarter of the previous century by Russian-speaking authors such as Yuri Lotman, Georgy Bogin, Aron Brudnyj, Tamara Dridze, Aleksandr Portnov, Vladimir Sulimov, as well as their colleagues and students. The priority function and significance of the developments of the aforementioned authors and schools is specifically associated with the discovery of non-trivial possibilities of the semiotic approach, which goes beyond considering the peculiarities of using language in various social practices for the semiotic analysis of such practices themselves.","PeriodicalId":53456,"journal":{"name":"Russian Journal of Communication","volume":"13 1","pages":"203 - 221"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85846359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/19409419.2021.1972828
A. Gureeva, Elina Samorodova
ABSTRACT The mediatization of social practices has brought new trends and forms of activism to life in society. This paper seeks to explain the theoretical basis for and provide conceptual insight into the Russian practice of hashtag activism – a phenomenon that has become an integral part of contemporary media activism and is of burgeoning interest to both Russian and foreign researchers. Moreover, this phenomenon is equally relevant to the study of the mediatization of politics more widely. Thus, the aim of the paper is to measure the level of the hashtag activism in Russia. This paper presents the results of the survey on social and political issues among young Russians, compares real activism with media activism, and discusses the role of hashtags in social media activism through the lens of several high profiles, public political events that took place in Russia between 2019 and 2020.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/19409419.2021.1999154
Karina Armenovna Badalyan, S. Gavrov
ABSTRACT The article analyzes the role of the representatives of the mass culture and opinion leaders of the age group 18–25 years in the life of the youth of Russia and the formation of their political views, culture and actions by the influence of the Internet on the example of 2018 elections and summer protests. Subject of research: the role of the youth's opinion leaders in the political decision-making process. Objective: to reveal the influence of the leaders of the mass culture on the young people of Russia and their actions in the political sphere with the help of the internet communications. The author has made the analysis of the information about the happened situation and previous information flows. It is concluded that the youth's society of the Russian Federation has the tendency to the exposure of the internet communications and the opinion leaders who operate them.
{"title":"Leaders of public opinion: political communication with youth in Russia during 2018–2019","authors":"Karina Armenovna Badalyan, S. Gavrov","doi":"10.1080/19409419.2021.1999154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19409419.2021.1999154","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The article analyzes the role of the representatives of the mass culture and opinion leaders of the age group 18–25 years in the life of the youth of Russia and the formation of their political views, culture and actions by the influence of the Internet on the example of 2018 elections and summer protests. Subject of research: the role of the youth's opinion leaders in the political decision-making process. Objective: to reveal the influence of the leaders of the mass culture on the young people of Russia and their actions in the political sphere with the help of the internet communications. The author has made the analysis of the information about the happened situation and previous information flows. It is concluded that the youth's society of the Russian Federation has the tendency to the exposure of the internet communications and the opinion leaders who operate them.","PeriodicalId":53456,"journal":{"name":"Russian Journal of Communication","volume":"285 1","pages":"238 - 252"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77882471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/19409419.2021.1995277
Sergei Pashakhin
ABSTRACT New media introduce mechanics in the news consumption and deliberation of public agenda capable of disrupting the democratic process's normative assumptions (echo chambers, filter bubbles). However, most research has been concerned with cases from Western Europe and the US. In this paper, we examine the fragmentation of the Russian public sphere online. We build on previous works with evidence on networked connections between segments of the online public sphere. We collected news items (N = 210,197) and metadata of 12 news outlets with offline and online reach posted on the largest Russian-language platform during one year (2017). Following a computational approach based on topic modeling and qualitative reading, we match the network segments with their news agendas. Although we do not find evidence of fragmentation, we find divergencies in their agendas. We discuss these findings and their contribution to the discussion of fragmentation of publics and agendas in the digital environment.
{"title":"Public agenda fragmentation beyond established democracies: the case of Russian online publics in 2017","authors":"Sergei Pashakhin","doi":"10.1080/19409419.2021.1995277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19409419.2021.1995277","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT New media introduce mechanics in the news consumption and deliberation of public agenda capable of disrupting the democratic process's normative assumptions (echo chambers, filter bubbles). However, most research has been concerned with cases from Western Europe and the US. In this paper, we examine the fragmentation of the Russian public sphere online. We build on previous works with evidence on networked connections between segments of the online public sphere. We collected news items (N = 210,197) and metadata of 12 news outlets with offline and online reach posted on the largest Russian-language platform during one year (2017). Following a computational approach based on topic modeling and qualitative reading, we match the network segments with their news agendas. Although we do not find evidence of fragmentation, we find divergencies in their agendas. We discuss these findings and their contribution to the discussion of fragmentation of publics and agendas in the digital environment.","PeriodicalId":53456,"journal":{"name":"Russian Journal of Communication","volume":"11 1","pages":"305 - 324"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75480012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-07-31DOI: 10.1080/19409419.2021.1958697
S. Croucher, Tatiana M. Permyakova, E. Turdubaeva
ABSTRACT As of July 2021, more than 153 million people have been diagnosed with COVID-19 globally. Russia has 5.5 million cases with more than 135,000 deaths; while Kyrgyzstan has nearly 132,000 cases and 2000 deaths. While the virus hit the two nations at different times and with different severities, the two nations, as with so many others, both experienced cases of prejudice toward minority groups blamed for the spread of COVID-19. Using integrated threat theory (ITT), this study cross-culturally examines the link between prejudice toward minorities blamed for the spread of COVID-19 in Russia (Asians) and Kyrgyzstan (migrants) and intergroup contact. Results revealed intergroup contact had a positive effect on realistic and symbolic threat. Additionally, results show Kyrgyz respondents had lower levels of symbolic threat than Russian respondents.
{"title":"Prejudice toward Asians and migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia and Kyrgyzstan","authors":"S. Croucher, Tatiana M. Permyakova, E. Turdubaeva","doi":"10.1080/19409419.2021.1958697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19409419.2021.1958697","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT As of July 2021, more than 153 million people have been diagnosed with COVID-19 globally. Russia has 5.5 million cases with more than 135,000 deaths; while Kyrgyzstan has nearly 132,000 cases and 2000 deaths. While the virus hit the two nations at different times and with different severities, the two nations, as with so many others, both experienced cases of prejudice toward minority groups blamed for the spread of COVID-19. Using integrated threat theory (ITT), this study cross-culturally examines the link between prejudice toward minorities blamed for the spread of COVID-19 in Russia (Asians) and Kyrgyzstan (migrants) and intergroup contact. Results revealed intergroup contact had a positive effect on realistic and symbolic threat. Additionally, results show Kyrgyz respondents had lower levels of symbolic threat than Russian respondents.","PeriodicalId":53456,"journal":{"name":"Russian Journal of Communication","volume":"51 1","pages":"289 - 301"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88219998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-07-12DOI: 10.1080/19409419.2021.1951066
Peter Broeder, Lisanne van Doremalen
ABSTRACT This study aims to investigate the effects of web store colours (blue or red) on e-commerce. Specifically, a comparison is made between consumers from two cultures: Dutch and Russian. They participated in an experimental survey and expressed their trust in a web store and their intention to purchase a low-involvement product (a laptop sleeve). The results showed that initial trust and cultural background seem to influence online purchase intention. Higher levels of initial trust were related to higher purchase intentions. Interestingly, where the more uncertainty-avoidant Russian consumers trusted the web store, the Dutch consumers were more likely to purchase the product, regardless of the colour they were exposed to. It is recommended to unravel the degree of localisation of web stores’ atmosphere in global e-commerce. Consumers from different cultural backgrounds might not feel and behave the same in a differently coloured, online retail environment.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-07DOI: 10.1080/19409419.2021.1951112
A. M. Pivovarov, D. Tkachuk
ABSTRACT The article presents the results of a comparative visual analysis of popular Russian and British music videos. The sample was based on the most viewed music videos on YouTube in 2019. The authors used the modern interpretation of Bourdieu's theory of capital as a theoretical framework for analysis. Bodily capital is considered as an independent type of capital that has physical, erotic, gender, and aesthetic dimensions. One considers that the capitalization of corporeality in a music video is connected with the plot visualization of the accumulation of bodily capital, i.e. the process of body transformation, by working on its physical features, constructing gender identity, modeling erotic behaviour, and aesthetic attributes of appearance. Moreover, the capitalization of corporeality in the video includes demonstration of obtaining direct or symbolic benefits resulting from the conversion of bodily capital into economic, cultural, or social capital. The crucial features of the capitalization of corporeality in Russian videos are the replication of markers of video characters' social status through body attributes, demonstration of aesthetically idealized bodies, and general irony over corporeality. In the British videos, there is less tongue-in-cheek narrative, especially associated with corporeal attributes; more unified body types are demonstrated.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-14DOI: 10.1080/19409419.2021.1940057
A. Mitrofanova
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/19409419.2021.1934895
Alfonso Puyal
ABSTRACT In its cinematographic dimension, Soviet Constructivism turns the city into a stage upon which amazing deeds, burlesque situations and acrobatics are performed. The circus, music-hall and variety shows are the new genres that are incorporated first into the theatre, advocated by the Left Front of the Arts (LEF), and shortly afterwards into the cinema. At the same time, the urban space becomes the epitome of the technology propelled by the Soviet state, which drove the industrialisation of the country: factories, machines and engines, road traffic, telecommunications and, of course, the cinema. The present paper addresses these questions – the ‘technification’ and the eccentric view of the city of the Soviet cinema-makers – through the analysis of three period-defining works. The first of these is Glumov's Diary (S. M. Eisenstein, 1923), a satirical short film integrated in the mise-en-scene of Enough Simplicity for Every Wise Man, a play by Aleksander Ostrovski; the second is The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (Lev Kuleshov, 1924); and the third work studied is The Adventures of Oktiabrina (Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg, 1924), the first film by the FEKS group.
在电影的维度上,苏联建构主义把城市变成了一个舞台,在这个舞台上表演着惊人的行为、滑稽的情景和杂技。马戏、音乐厅和综艺节目是由左翼艺术阵线(Left Front of The Arts, LEF)倡导的,首先被纳入剧院的新类型,不久之后进入电影院。与此同时,城市空间成为苏联国家推动的技术的缩影,这推动了这个国家的工业化:工厂、机器和发动机、道路交通、电信,当然还有电影。本文通过对三个时期定义作品的分析,解决了这些问题——“技术化”和苏联电影制作人对城市的古怪看法。其中第一部是格卢莫夫的《日记》(S. M.爱森斯坦,1923年),这是一部讽刺短片,与亚历山大·奥斯特洛夫斯基的戏剧《给每个聪明人足够的简单》的场景布景相结合;第二本是《韦斯特先生在布尔什维克的土地上的非凡冒险》(列夫·库列绍夫,1924年);研究的第三部作品是《奥克提亚布里纳历险记》(格里戈里·科津采夫和列昂尼德·特劳伯格,1924年),这是FEKS小组的第一部电影。
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Pub Date : 2021-03-16DOI: 10.1080/19409419.2021.1899563
V. Vasileva, L. Y. Ivanova
ABSTRACT Networking within online communities is recognized as a new way of social interaction. The authors study Russian Internet communities that unite members of the same profession – professional social networks. In such communities, speech etiquette is formed under the influence of communicative values that are, in turn, formed under the influence of values that are determined by a particular profession. We search for a correlation between professional social networks’ speech etiquette features and the profession of their members, and raise the questions: What communication goals are pursued by the users of the communities studied? What communicative situations form the professional social networks’ speech etiquette? What are the communicative values of an online group for professionals? What kinds of professionals’ speech activity may influence the formation of speech etiquette in professional social networks? Speech activity of professional social networks was analysed in ‘Dentistry’, ‘Overheard in the police’, and ‘Law dot ru’.
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