scholarly journals Information Behavior Culture of the RuNet Audience

The purpose of this study is to analyze the formation of a media consumption culture in the information-rich multiconfessional and bilingual region of the Russian Federation – the Republic of Tatarstan. The authors of this article conducted a survey of 200 respondents aged 19-55 who are active users of the RuNet. The survey was carried out among students of the Kazan State Institute of Culture and Kazan Federal University, as well as media professionals from the Republic of Tatarstan. The anonymous survey was conducted in January-March 2019. Of all the respondents participated in this survey, 56% were aged 19-20. Eighty-three percent of the respondents were female – students, teachers and media workers of the Republic of Tatarstan. Sixty-five percent of them combined their education with work. Ninety-eight percent of the respondents received information from the Internet, 76% watched information programs on television, 27% listened to the radio and only 7.5% of the respondents still read newspapers. Sixty-eight percent of the surveyed trusted messages received from news agencies, while 78% trusted news messages received from news aggregators. Ninety percent of the respondents trusted information received from online media; 11% trusted the information received from social networks and only 4.5% of the respondents trusted the information discussed in blogs. The high percentage of trust to information obtained from the media and the low percentage of trust to information obtained from blogs indicates the current culture of media use and media literacy of the population in the situation with fake news. Of all the respondents answering the question "Do you refer to the source of information you use on the Internet?", 91.5% answered positively. Disturbingly, 92.5% of the surveyed believe that they do not have to pay for the information received from online media. The authors explain the refusal to pay for content with a small amount of exclusive and analytical materials in the information field of the Republic of Tatarstan

Kavkaz-forum ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
М.Р. ГАБАРАЕВА

Средства массовой информации с развитием интернета из традиционных трансформировались в интернет-СМИ, в которые входят и новостные страницы в социальных сетях «Вконтакте», «Инстаграм», «Телеграм». Чтение новостей является одной из основных целей использования интернета и социальных сетей, что приводит к популярности агрегаторов новостных сообщений. Социальные сети отличаются от традиционных СМИ своей интерактивностью и большей зависимостью от читателей, поскольку успешность страницы зависит от вовлеченности аудитории, особенно от количества комментариев. Администраторы страниц заинтересованы в публикации новостей, вызывающих реакцию и споры. События, освещаемые на новостных страницах, затем переходят в другие сообщества, где продолжается их обсуждение. По отклику пользователей интернета на различные темы можно определять общее настроение общества. В дагестанских социальных сетях вопрос семейно-брачных отношений поднимается часто, к тому же эта тема стимулируется публикацией новостных сообщений о соотношении браков и разводов в республике. Так как большей частью активных пользователей социальных сетей является молодежь, анализ их мнений по вопросу семейных отношений может помочь в понимании будущего семьи в регионе. По результатам контент-анализа комментариев под постами о браках и разводах можно говорить о том, что, помимо личных, основными причинами как разводов, так и снижения количества заключаемых браков являются финансовая нестабильность, а также изменение общества и нахождение его на стыке архаизации и модернизации. Количество заключаемых браков в Дагестане снижается, тогда как количество разводов остается приблизительно на одном уровне, хотя СМИ сосредотачивают внимание в своих публикациях на разводах, формируя определенную картину мира у читателей. With the development of the Internet, the media has transformed from its traditional forms of newspapers and television into online-media, which also includes news profiles on the social networks such as Vkontakte, Instagram, and Telegram. Reading news is one of the main purposes of using the internet and social media, which leads to the popularity of news aggregators. Social networks differ from traditional media in their interactivity and greater dependence on readers, since the success of a profile is based on the engagement of the audience namely, of chief relevance is the number of comments. Administrators of social media profiles would more likely publish news that generates reactions and controversy. Events covered on the news profiles are then transferred to other social media pages, where they continue to be discussed. The general mood of the society can be determined by the response of Internet users to various topics. The issue of family and marriage relations is often raised in Dagestan based social media profiles and pages. This topic is stimulated by the publication of news reports on the ratio of marriages and divorces in the republic. Since the majority of active users of social networks are young people, analyzing their views on the issue of marital relations can help to understand the future of the family in the region. Based on the results of the content analysis of the comments under the posts about marriages and divorces, we can say that, in addition to personal factors, the main reasons for high number of divorces and a decrease in the number of marriages are financial instability, as well as a change in society and its transition to modernization. The number of marriages in Dagestan is declining, while the number of divorces remains approximately at the same level, although the media focuses its attention on divorces, forming a certain picture of the world among readers.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-208
Author(s):  
Ana Pérez-Escoda ◽  
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Gema Barón-Dulce ◽  
Juana Rubio-Romero ◽  
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The explosion of the Covid-19 pandemic has led to a major transformation in media consumption and the use of social networks. New habits and extensive exposure to connected devices coupled with unmanageable amounts of information warn of a worrying reality, especially among the younger population. The aim of this research is to discover the degree of trustworthiness of Generation Z towards the media, their media consumption preferences and the association they make between media consumption and fake news. Using a descriptive and exploratory quantitative methodology, a study is presented with a sample of 225 young people belonging to this population niche. The study addresses three dimensions: media consumption, social networks and perception of fake news. The results show that generation Z is an intensive consumer of the media they trust the least and perceive traditional media as the most trustworthy. The findings indicate that social networks are the main source of information consumption for this ge­neration, among other content, despite also being the least trustworthy and the most likely to distribute fake news according to their perceptions. There is a lack of media literacy from a critical rather than a formative perspective.


2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (Extra-A) ◽  
pp. 179-189
Author(s):  
Ko Young Cheol ◽  
Kim Youngsuk

The purpose of this study is to investigate the opinions of Russian university students on the understanding of Korea, to find out the degrees and errors of understanding Korea, and to derive the contents and methods for notifying Korea immediately to Russia. Accordingly, this paper surveyed the opinions of Korean geographic knowledge, Korean cultural and economic situation knowledge by surveying “consciousness about the understanding of Korea” of Korean learners and non-Korean learners of Kazan Federal University in Russia. Through this, Korean governments, institutions, and social organizations must teach Russian university students general knowledge about geography, history, economy, and society of Korea. It is necessary to promote Korea's accurate situation through the media. Active and continuous efforts to enhance the image of Korea are needed. It is necessary to expand the contents of Russian secondary school textbooks about Korea and to train teachers.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Valchanov ◽  

The development of the Internet and social media and networks as a media environment and communication channels combined with the specificity of the journalistic profession in the online environment are a factor which contributes to the emergence and proliferation of fake news. The lack of reliable fact checking by the media and the fast news consumption by the public lead to mass disinformation about certain issues or subjects. The current paper examines fake news from several points of view and describes the models of their use – as harmless jokes, as lack of journalistic competence or professionalism and as means of manipulation and intentional misleading of public opinion. The attempts of big media corporations to fight fake news are also described.


The article analyzes the names of newspapers and magazines published in the Republic of Tatarstan (a constituent entity of the Russian Federation) from 1917 to 1991. The research object (hemeronyms) is considered by the authors as an artifact of culture; the authors prove that among all the onyms, hemeronyms seem to be the most dependent on cultural, historical, and ideological factors. Based on the application of the methods of keywords and key meanings, the semantic field of the media onomastic regional space of the studied period is reconstructed. It is shown that the nuclear idea of a semantic field constructed as a result of systematization of empirical material is an idea that can be designated as “building a society of a new formation”. The nuclear idea is revealed in specific key meanings: “struggle” (namely ‘active actions to overcome or achieve something’ and ‘active actions aimed at achieving labor success’), “renewal”, i.e. ‘aimed at building a new socio-economic formation - the communist’, “path”, “collectivization”, “labor as the supreme value”, “guiding the role of the communist party (communists)”. The research results obtained by the authors reflect the specifics of not only the regional (Tatarstan) media onomastic space, but also the whole of Soviet Russia. The algorithm of the study of Russian hemonyms of the Soviet era presented in the work can be extrapolated to the similar material of other national-cultural formations or of the Russian one, but covering other time periods with its own specific worldview dominant.


INFORMASI ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 181
Author(s):  
Aulia Puspaning Galih

Social media, as the name implies, is a media for people to socialize with the others,with borderless space and time, over the Internet. Facebook is one of Indonesian favoritesocial media. Indonesian does a lot of activities on Facebook, such as posting andcommenting on other people posts. One of the most popular features on Facebook isthe sharing feature. It can share post or link from online media or other people’s postto their own account. The ease of using the share features, it also raises many cases.The case of indignation expression of Danish badminton players against the threat ofmurder directed against them, until the case of defamation of the President of Indonesiabecame a real example of the effects of these features.Many of those kinds of cases resultin social punishment, even prison. Law of The Republic of Indonesia Number 11 year2008 about Electronic Information and Transaction which had been revised on 2016,still can not solve social problems which occur on the Internet. In fact, the Act alone willnot be enough to solve social problems. Actually, what society needs is more knowledgeabout digital literacy. Media sosial, seperti namanya, adalah media bagi masyarakat untuk bersosialisasidengan orang lain tanpa dibatasi ruang dan waktu melalui jaringan internet. Salah satu bentuk media sosial yang paling banyak digunakan saat ini, terutama oleh masyarakat Indonesia, adalah jejaring sosial Facebook. Masyarakat Indonesia melakukan banyak kegiatan di situs jejaring sosial tersebut, seperti mengunggah tulisan dan berkomentar pada suatu unggahan. Salah satu fitur yang digemari di Facebook adalah fitur bagikan yang berfungsi agar pengguna dapat membagi tautan dari orang lain keakun pribadi mereka dengan pengaturan tertentu. Adanya kemudahan dalam menggunakan fitur bagikan tersebut, ternyata malah menimbulkan banyak kasus. Kasus ungkapan kemarahan pemain bulutangkis asal Denmark terhadap ancaman pembunuhan yang ditujukan kepada mereka, hingga kasus penghinaan Presiden Indonesia menjadi contoh nyata dari efek fitur tersebut. Tidak jarang masalah yang ada di jejaring sosial berujung pada hukuman sosial,bahkan dapat masuk dalam ranah hukum pidana. Undang-Undang Informasi dan Transaksi Elektronik yang telah direvisi pada akhir tahun 2016, ternyata tidak dapat mengatasi masalah sosial yang terlanjur terjadi di internet. Faktanya, Undang-undang saja tidak akan cukup untuk mengatasi masalah sosial. Sebenarnya, yang lebih dibutuhkan masyarakat adalah pengetahuan tentang literasi digital.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (26) ◽  
pp. 101-106
Author(s):  
Mariya E. Avakyan ◽  

The article examines functioning of the Russian language outside the Russian Federation: the peculiarities of the «national» Russian language in the Republic of Armenia, the concept of this term itself, the significance of using Russian in the media, overlapping national features. The main characteristics of the «national» Russian language outside Russia are considered to be as follows: the language is seen as an «advocate» of necessary national ideas and a real opportunity to transmit national ideas, thoughts, messages and information in a language of international communication. The development of the social institution of the «national language» in the future will largely determine the preservation of national cultural, educational as well as political and economic unity with Russia. We should not forget that professional journalistic activity is, first and foremost, a verbal activity. And the professional culture of journalists depends on how well they master the language. The linguistic features of the Russian-language media in Armenia present a rather broad spectrum of issues possible and relevant for consideration. The national variant is a certain form of adapting the classical literary language to the traditions and cultural values, to the urgent needs of a particular nation, thus becoming a special form of functioning of the language common for the nation.


Author(s):  
Yosra Sobeih ◽  
El Taieb EL Sadek

Modern communication means have imposed many changes on the media work in the different stages of content production, starting from gathering news, visual and editorial processing, verification and verification of the truthfulness of what was stated in it until its publication, so the changes that were stimulated by modern means and technologies and artificial intelligence tools have affected all stages of news and media production, since the beginning of the emergence of rooms. Smart news that depends on human intelligence and then machine intelligence, which has become forced to keep pace with the development in communication means, which has withdrawn in the various stages of production, and perhaps the most important of which is the process of investigation and scrutiny and the detection of false news and rumors in our current era, which has become the spread of information very quickly through the Internet and websites Social media and various media platforms


2020 ◽  
pp. 8-22
Author(s):  
Ivanka MAVRODIEVA

Thе article presents the results of a study based on the news surrounding COVID-19 in electronic media sites, print media and online media in Bulgaria through the prism of three notions: intertextuality, hypertextuality and multimodality. The survey period covers three months: February – April 2020 (the beginning of wider dissemination of information about COVID-19 in the media until the establishment of a peak of patients, hospitalized and carriers of the virus). A discursive, media and communicative analysis of a corpus has been conducted and then divided into four sub-corpora, which include online publications, videos, memes, photos, infographics and more. The analysis focuses on online publications in order to pinpoint the manifestations of intertextuality, mainly on a verbal level; the external and internal hyper textuality and the role of hyperlinks are investigated too. The establishment of multimodality in official media information and memes reflecting situations related to the coronavirus crisis (COVID-19) are examined in part three. Linguistic and communication features are also presented in terms of metadiscourse and intervisuality, which are carried out in the events of institutional public relations. The article also presents groups of terms and expressions used in expert and statemen’s statements in media sites, online media and social networks to present the information about overcoming the coronavirus crisis and preventing the spread of fake news and fake content.


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