Fragmentation and Polarization of the Public Sphere in the 2000s: Evidence from Italy and Russia
After the Arab spring, direct linkage between growth of technological hybridization of media systems and political online-to-offline protest spill-overs seemed evident, at least in several aspects, as ‘twitter revolutions’ showed organizational potential of the mediated communication of today. Bu...
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| author | Svetlana S. Bodrunova |
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| description | After the Arab spring, direct linkage between growth of technological hybridization of
media systems and political online-to-offline protest spill-overs seemed evident, at least in several
aspects, as ‘twitter revolutions’ showed organizational potential of the mediated communication of
today. But in de-facto politically transitional countries hybridization of media systems is capable of
performing not just organizational but also ‘cultivational’ roles in terms of creating communicative
milieus where protest consensus is formed, provoking spill-overs from expressing political opinions
online to street protest.The two cases of Italy and Russia are discussed in terms of their nonfinished
process of transition to democracy and the media’s role within the recent political process.
In the two cases, media-political conditions have called into being major cleavages in national
deliberative space that may be conceptualized like formation of nation-wide public counter-spheres
based upon alternative agenda and new means of communication. The structure and features of
these counter-spheres are reconstructed; to check whether regional specifics are involved into the
formation of this growing social gap, quantitative analysis of regional online news media (website
menus) is conducted. Several indicators for spotting the formation of counter-spheres and criteria
for further estimation of democratic quality of such counter-spheres are suggested. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7421f780d4564f6b977f5cb2c1ad9f252024-03-02T14:56:51ZdeuFreie Universität BerlinGlobal Media Journal: German Edition2196-48072196-48072013-05-0131Fragmentation and Polarization of the Public Sphere in the 2000s: Evidence from Italy and RussiaSvetlana S. BodrunovaAfter the Arab spring, direct linkage between growth of technological hybridization of media systems and political online-to-offline protest spill-overs seemed evident, at least in several aspects, as ‘twitter revolutions’ showed organizational potential of the mediated communication of today. But in de-facto politically transitional countries hybridization of media systems is capable of performing not just organizational but also ‘cultivational’ roles in terms of creating communicative milieus where protest consensus is formed, provoking spill-overs from expressing political opinions online to street protest.The two cases of Italy and Russia are discussed in terms of their nonfinished process of transition to democracy and the media’s role within the recent political process. In the two cases, media-political conditions have called into being major cleavages in national deliberative space that may be conceptualized like formation of nation-wide public counter-spheres based upon alternative agenda and new means of communication. The structure and features of these counter-spheres are reconstructed; to check whether regional specifics are involved into the formation of this growing social gap, quantitative analysis of regional online news media (website menus) is conducted. Several indicators for spotting the formation of counter-spheres and criteria for further estimation of democratic quality of such counter-spheres are suggested.http://www.db-thueringen.de/servlets/DerivateServlet/Derivate-27654/GMJ5_Bodrunova_final.pdfPublic counter-sphereItalyRussiamediacracydemocratic quality of communicationfragmentationpublic sphere |
| spellingShingle | Svetlana S. Bodrunova Fragmentation and Polarization of the Public Sphere in the 2000s: Evidence from Italy and Russia Global Media Journal: German Edition Public counter-sphere Italy Russia mediacracy democratic quality of communication fragmentation public sphere |
| title | Fragmentation and Polarization of the Public Sphere in the 2000s: Evidence from Italy and Russia |
| title_full | Fragmentation and Polarization of the Public Sphere in the 2000s: Evidence from Italy and Russia |
| title_fullStr | Fragmentation and Polarization of the Public Sphere in the 2000s: Evidence from Italy and Russia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fragmentation and Polarization of the Public Sphere in the 2000s: Evidence from Italy and Russia |
| title_short | Fragmentation and Polarization of the Public Sphere in the 2000s: Evidence from Italy and Russia |
| title_sort | fragmentation and polarization of the public sphere in the 2000s evidence from italy and russia |
| topic | Public counter-sphere Italy Russia mediacracy democratic quality of communication fragmentation public sphere |
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