Study of the Impact of Social Media Technologies on Political Consciousness: Specifics of Russian Approaches


  •  Dmitry Gennadievich Baluev    
  •  Dmitry Igorevich Kaminchenko    

Abstract

The article is devoted to the phenomenon of political consciousness and social media. The authors pay attention to existing approaches to study of political consciousness and modern social media in Russian science. According to this article Russian scientists actively consider the problems that are connected to social media. There is a number of works where authors consider terminological aspects of modern social media. There are also many investigations that are devoted to the problem of political consciousness. Russian scientists draw attention to modern social networks support platforms as tools of socialization and emphasize the need for the system-based theoretical and applied researches of political and social phenomenon of modern social networks support systems in Russia. The authors of this paper suppose that social media may enhance the feeling of modern Russians potential involvement in socio-political sphere. Moreover these media may contribute to changing political and social institutions perception by users.


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