Social networks: turning the «field of freedom» into a weapon of the anti-Russian information war
Abstract
The author of the article set the task to identify and characterize the main factors underlying global changes in media communications in the Russian Federation. Analysis of a large number of new sources of information allowed us to conclude that social networks have become the most important link in the infrastructure of the information space and one of the main tools of strategy and tactics for the destruction of Russia as a state and Russian civilization as a whole. Therefore, the scientific community and, most importantly, the political authorities face the most important problem of countering the aggressive information and network expansion of the West.
About the Authors
N. A. Vasiliev
Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Vasiliev Nikolay Alexandrovich, Master of Sociology, Senior Researcher of the Sector of Socio-Cultural and Media Communications
Moscow
O. I. Karpuhin
Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Karpuhin Oleg Ivanovich, Doctor of Sociology, Professor, Chief Researcher of the Sociocultural and Media Communications Research Sector
Moscow
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Vasiliev N.A., Karpuhin O.I. Social networks: turning the «field of freedom» into a weapon of the anti-Russian information war. P.O.I.S.K. 2022;(4):18-32. (In Russ.)
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