Fashion in Postmodern Political Communication

2021 ◽  
Vol 35.5 ◽  
pp. 156-166
Author(s):  
Olga V. Afanasieva
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
The Political ◽  
Mass Communications ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Political Sphere ◽  
Mental Context

The goal of this article is to try to reach theoretical comprehension of the political fashion phenomenon. Conceptualization of fashion as an effect of mass communication allows one to see in it not only a phenomenon of pop culture but also an immanent side, and at the same time the main social, psychological and mental risk of the progress, – the accelerating humanity evolution. The article shows how modern values – novelty priority, truth accessibility, individualism, – and mass communications progress maximize the potential and danger of mass mental enthusiasm in political sphere. The author substantiates the following conclusion: political fashion in the communication mental context of postmodern appears to be the manifestation and factor the increasing crisis of social structure.

Mediapolicy

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Рашид Мухаев ◽  
Rashid Muhaev
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
The Political ◽  
Communication Policy ◽  
Policy Space ◽  
Municipal Administration ◽  
Information And Communication

If you want to find out how the mechanisms and technologies of political domination in modern information societies have changed, then read the first Russian textbook on the new academic discipline “Media Policy”. The textbook examines the main interpretations of the information and communication policy space, its subjects, structure and information management technologies, identifies effective channels of information influence on the political behavior of a person, groups and communities, reveals the mechanism of symbolic dominance in the structure of modern politics, identifies its elements, technologies and communication strategies. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of various means and channels of mass communication, used for positioning and promoting ideas, discourses and political images, as well as constructing messages through various media. The textbook is addressed to bachelors and masters studying in the specialties “Advertising and Public Relations”, “Political Science”, “State and Municipal Administration”, as well as to theoreticians, practitioners, and experts working in the field of political communication.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Epstein
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
American Political Development ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
The Political ◽  
Communication History ◽  
Choice Phase ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
And Diffusion

This introduction serves several important goals. It lays out both the research objective and theoretical framework placing this study on an interdisciplinary foundation that combines work from political science, American political development, mass communication, history, and diffusion studies. It introduces the core concepts of the book, concentrated around a recurring multistage process called the political communication cycle (PCC). The three stages of the PCC, detailed in the following chapters, include the information and communications technology (ICT)–focused technological imperative phase; the political choice phase, which emphasizes the behavioral process central to innovation; and stabilization through the establishment of new norms, regulations, and institutions. This process has repeated throughout history, where long periods of relative stability, known as political communication orders (PCOs), are disrupted by shorter periods of permanent change, identified as political communication revolutions (PCRs). The introduction concludes by introducing the three claims that are used throughout the book and outlining the chapters that follow.

DIGITALIZATION OF THE POLITICAL PROCESS OF MODERN RUSSIA: TRENDS AND PROSPECTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 63-72
Author(s):  
O. Potanina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
The Political ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Political Sphere ◽  
Digital Format ◽  
The Impact

The development of digital technologies, their active implementation in the process of public-power management, and the daily life of citizens are changing the usual forms of political communication, radically transforming the political space. In the scientific community, discussions are held about the feasibility and importance of these processes, value judgments are made about the changes taking place in society; however, the digital transformation of public relations is irreversible and increasingly affects the familiar world. The urgency of this issue is due to the intensive introduction of the latest technologies in the political sphere, that is, its complete digitalization. The object of the research is the political process under the influence of the digital transformation of society in modern Russia. The subject of the study is the impact of the latest digital technologies on the transformation of the political process. The research purpose of the article is to determine the list of trends in the digitalization of the political process in modern Russia. The first task is to consider the issue in the scientific community about the use of digital technologies in the political sphere; the second task involves the analysis of the influence of trends on the transformation of the political process, the third-the identification of the most obvious trends. Digital technologies and prospects of digitalization are considered, taking into account the accumulated experience in the political sphere. The research examines the phenomena of digitalization of the political environment, analyzes digital trends and their impact on changing political communication. The author delineates the prospects and trends of digitalization of the political process. A possible list of trends in digitalization that will be introduced into the political sphere in the coming years, such as trends in the “digital format”, the protection of big data, control, and robotization, which cause modern changes in the political process in modern Russian society, and have an impact on the development of relations between a person and the state, is revealed

The Stabilization Process Then and Now

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Epstein
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Stabilization Process ◽  
The Third ◽  
Stabilization Phase ◽  
Over Time

This chapter shifts the focus to the third and final stabilization phase of the political communication cycle (PCC). During the stabilization phase, a new political communication order (PCO) takes shape through the building of norms, institutions, and regulations that serve to fix the newly established status quo in place. This status quo occurs when formerly innovative political communication activities become mundane, yet remain powerful. Much of the chapter details the pattern of communication regulation and institution construction over time. In particular, this chapter explores the instructive similarities and key differences between the regulation of radio and the internet, which offers important perspectives on the significance of our current place in the PCC and the consequences of choices that will be made over the next few years.

Democracy in the Plural?

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-35
Author(s):  
Anna Friberg
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Social Democrats ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Political Sphere ◽  
Universal Suffrage ◽  
The Social ◽  
Concepts Of Democracy ◽  
Positive Concept

The article explores some of the composite concepts of democracy that were used in Sweden, primarily by the Social Democrats during the interwar years. Should these be seen as pluralizations of the collective singular democracy or as something qualitatively new? By showing how these concepts relate to each other and to democracy as a whole, the article argues that they should be considered statements about democracy as one entity, that democracy did not only concern the political sphere, but was generally important throughout the whole of society. The article also examines the Swedish parliamentarians' attitudes toward democracy after the realization of universal suffrage, and argues that democracy was eventually perceived as such a positive concept that opponents of what was labeled democratic reforms had to reformulate the political issues into different words in order to avoid coming across as undemocratic.

Indian and Russian Tolstoy: one among strangers and a stranger among one’s

2021 ◽  
pp. 27-35
Author(s):  
Svetlana M. Klimova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Sphere ◽  
Indian Thought ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Lev Tolstoy ◽  
The One ◽  
The Voice ◽  
The Church ◽  
Peculiar Phenomenon

The article examines the phenomenon of the late Lev Tolstoy in the context of his religious position. The author analyzes the reactions to his teaching in Russian state and official Orthodox circles, on the one hand, and Indian thought, on the other. Two sociocultural images of L.N. Tolstoy: us and them that arose in the context of understanding the position of the Russian Church and the authorities and Indian public and religious figures (including Mahatma Gandhi, who was under his influence). A peculiar phenomenon of intellectually usL.N. Tolstoy among culturally them (Indian) correspondents and intellectually them Tolstoy among culturally us (representatives of the official government and the Church of Russia) transpires. The originality of this situation is that these im­ages of Lev Tolstoy arise practically at the same period. The author compares these images, based on the method of defamiliarisation (V. Shklovsky), which allows to visually demonstrate the religious component of Tolstoy’s criticism of the political sphere of life and, at the same time, to understand the psychological reasons for its rejection in Russian official circles. With the methodological help of defamiliarisation the author tries to show that the opinion of Tolstoy (as the writer) becomes at the same time the voice of conscience for many of his con­temporaries. The method of defamiliarisation allowed the author to show how Leo Tolstoy’s inner law of nonviolence influenced the concept of non­violent resistance in the teachings of Gandhi.

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