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Values Underlying the Information Culture in Communist and Post-Communist Russia (1917-1999)
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Abstract In this article the concept of information culture - understood as the dominant handling of information, shared by a dominant proportion of journalists, the public, authorities and other actors within a societal environment at a given time and place - is explored in the context of Communist and earl... view more
In this article the concept of information culture - understood as the dominant handling of information, shared by a dominant proportion of journalists, the public, authorities and other actors within a societal environment at a given time and place - is explored in the context of Communist and early post-Communist Russia (1917-1999). Three value pairs underlying the attitude towards information are explored: individualism and collectivism (the relation of man to the state), universalism and particularism (the relation of man to man), and pluralism versus dominance (the nature of knowledge and truth). Continuities are found between the Communist Soviet Union and post-Communist Russia in their instrumental use of media and information (collectivism), the view on information as a particular privilege rather than a universal right and the monopoly of truth. Post-Communism, therefore, appears not only as an indication of time (i.e. the period after Communism) but also as an indicator of the continuation of basic value orientations over these time periods. (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
Russia; information flow; information society; media; effect; mass media; media society; communism; post-communist society; political culture; media policy; social norm; value; value system; collectivism; particularism; historical development
Classification
Media Politics, Information Politics, Media Law
Media Contents, Content Analysis
Sociology of Communication, Sociology of Language, Sociolinguistics
Document language
English
Publication Year
2015
Page/Pages
p. 15-25
Journal
Media and Communication, 3 (2015) 4
Issue topic
Turbulences of the Central and Eastern European Media
ISSN
2183-2439
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution