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Путеводитель по социальным медиа - 2013
The 2013 Social Media Guidebook explores the potential and the challenges of social media and the right to freedom of expression as new media develop. The autors address contemporary issues affecting journalism and media in general. For journalists, consultants, regulatory officials and undergraduate and graduate students.
The 2013 Social Media Guidebook explores the potential and the challenges of social media and the right to freedom of expression as new media develop. The autors address contemporary issues affecting journalism and media in general. For journalists, consultants, regulatory officials and undergraduate and graduate students.
This article investigates technologies of media coverage of election campaign in the USA in 2012 in order to discover new tactics and their effect on political contest of the candidates. With the help of comparative analysis of previously implemented technologies and empirical generalization of the data, received during investigation of survey results, the study aims at answering the question: what technologies of media coverage are preferred nowadays in the USA and what the results of their implementations are. While investigating the study of Gallop and Pew Research Center data was carried out. As a result the following conclusions were made: the trust of American citizens in traditional media has decreased dramatically for the last years. This circumstance caused the increase of popularity of new media. Modern technologies of media coverage in the Internet in the USA is considered as a means of the development of democracy and civil society, motivation of individual to participate in political activities if the society, a new means for realization of free speech and widening the access to information for citizens. The article presents the analysis of implementation of new communication technologies by candidates in the presidential elections in 2012 in the USA. The analysis showed that despite the negative type of information, presented by new media, the volume of this information is the only point that matters. The distribution of even negative information about the candidate contributes to his popularization among American people.
In his seminal work «Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft», Ferdinand Tönnies back in the late nineteenth century already predicted that the end of the gesellschaft era will be marked by the appearance of new gemeinschafts, which may give birth to a new culture. Nowadays, we may be witnessing the emergence of such gemeinschafts in the form of self-isolated local communities (ecovillages, intentional and religious communities, kin’s domain settlements, etc.). The situation in Russia is unique and unforeseen by Tönnies — new local gemeinschafts coexist in the same country and even in the same ethno-religious environment with the remaining old ones — territorially isolated local communities (remote hard-to-reach villages). Based on the identified features of a gemeinschaft, the article compares territorially isolated and self-isolated local communities (on the example of the so-called kin’s domain settlements — its most widespread variety in Russia) with an ideal gemeinschaft. The author concludes that territorially isolated communities are closer to an ideal gemeinschaft. This can be partly explained by the fact that kin’s domain settlements are still at the initial stage of their development. They grew out of the gesellschaft and bear some of its traits. And even now, gemeinschaft features in kin’s domain settlements are prevailing over the gesellschaft ones as evolution towards an ideal gemeinschaft continues. Nevertheless, new gemeinschafts will remain qualitatively different social ties as compared to the old ones. The data were collected in remote villages and kin’s domain settlements using such methods as in-depth interviews and observations with elements of participant observation.
This article is about the life of Dmitry Bystroliotov (1901-1975), a Soviet intelligence officer, about his adventures in the Sahara desert and the Congo in the 1930s. Some information about Bystroliotov and about his trip emerged many years after his death, in the 1990s. But even today much of the story remains mysterious. Bystroliotovs first publications although a mystery too appeared in our journal in 1963. We continue the story on the basis of what has come to light since then.
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