Online Political Communication of Youth from Russian Megapolises

Analyzing online political discussion using three models of democratic communication

Research examining online political forums has until now been overwhelmingly guided by two broad perspectives: (1) a deliberative conception of democratic communication and (2) a diverse collection of incommensurable multi-sphere approaches. While these literatures have contributed many insightful observations, their disadvantages have left many interesting communicative dynamics largely unexpl...

Constitutive Features of the Russian Political Discourse in Ecolinguistic Aspect

The article offers a comparative description of typological mechanisms used in political communicative practice and methods of verbal explication of its axiological and symbolic constituents determining universal mental features of individual/collective consciousness. The research position based on a systemic multilevel analysis of the component structure of discourse facilitates the identifica...

Experience of Online Communication from the Perspective of Adolescents: A Qualitative Study

Experience of Online Communication from the Perspective of Adolescents: A Qualitative Study   R. Masoudifar , Ph.D. [1] B. Shalchi, Ph.D. [2] S. Kolahi Hamed  [3]   In the past decades, we have witnessed a dramatic rise in the number of teenagers using the Internet, especially for the purpose of communicating with others. The problematic use of the Internet contradicts with the normal dail...

Tweeting From Left to Right: Is Online Political Communication More Than an Echo Chamber?

We estimated ideological preferences of 3.8 million Twitter users and, using a data set of nearly 150 million tweets concerning 12 political and nonpolitical issues, explored whether online communication resembles an "echo chamber" (as a result of selective exposure and ideological segregation) or a "national conversation." We observed that information was exchanged primarily among individuals ...

Tweeting from Left to Right: Is Online Political Communication More Than an Echo Chamber?