Utilitarian Discourse of Important Socio-Political Issues in Russian Media
Keywords:
public opinion, media frames, constructivism, dominant narrative, “communicative sphere”
Abstract
The main goal of the given research is to test the hypothesis, that the public opinion is not determined only by media. Thus, the relation between media and public opinion is an issue of complex interdependence caused by structurally determined dominant narratives. The given research extends the inquiry focused on a shortage of Russian citizens discursive means which determine relationships towards changing institutional structure (Kashirskikh 2014). The research relies on example of Russian media-frames accompanying lightening of most important social issues (economic crises and corruption) in 2016-2017. The research results revealed utilitarian discourse to be dominant by lightening important social issues in Russian media. The lack of functioning representation of citizens in institutionally structured “communicative sphere” is projected to “communicative sphere” of meaning production thus to the news covering major socio-political issues.
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Cohen, J. (1996). Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy. Deliberative Democracy: Essays on Reason and Politics, (ed. Bohman, J. & Rehg, W., Massachusetts Institute for Technology, 67-92.
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Hall, S. (1997). The work of representation. Representation: Cultural representations and signifying practices (ed. S. Hall), London: Sage, 13-64.
Hay C. (2008). Constructivist Institutionalism. Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions, (ed. Binder S. A., Rhodes R. A. W. & Rockman B. A.), Oxford Handbooks Online, 1-27.
Kiriya I. (2014). Social Media as a Tool of Political Isolation in the Russian Public Sphere. Journal of Print and Media Technology Research, 3(2), 131-138.
Manin, B. (1987). On Legitimacy and Political Deliberation. Political Theory, 15(3), 338-368.
McQuail, D. (2005). McQuail’s mass communication theory (5th ed.), London: Sage.
Petrov, N., Lipman, M. & Hale, H. (2014). Three Dilemmas of Hybrid Regime Governance: Russia from Putin to Putin. Post-Soviet Affairs, 30(1), 1-26.
Reese, S. D. (2001). Introduction. Framing public life: Perspectives on media and our understanding of the social world (eds. S. D. Reese, O. H. Gandy, & A. E. Grant), Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1–31.
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Schimpfossl, E. & Yablokov, I. (2014). Coercion or Conformism? Censorship and Self-Censorship among Russian Media Personalities and Reporters in the 2010s. Demokratizatsiya, 22(2), 295-311.
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Sztompka P. (2000). Cultural Trauma. The Other Face of Social Change. European Journal of Social Theory, 3(4), 449-466.
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Toepfl, F. (2013). Making Sense of the News in a Hybrid Regime: How Young Russians Decode State TV and an Oppositional Blog. Journal of Communication, 63(2), 244-265.
Toepfl, F. (2014). Four Facets of Critical News Literacy in a Non-democratic Regime: How Young Russians Navigate Their News. European Journal of Communication, 29(1), 68-82.
Van Gorp B. (2007). The Constructionist Approach to Framing: Bringing Culture Back In, Journal of Communication 57 (1), 60–78.
Published
2018-02-20
How to Cite
КаширскихО. Н. (2018). Utilitarian Discourse of Important Socio-Political Issues in Russian Media. Communications. Media. Design, 2(4), 67-90. Retrieved from https://cmd-journal.hse.ru/article/view/7474
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