CONFRONTATIONAL ATTITUDES OF DISCUSSION COMMUNITIES OF THE RUSSIAN-LANGUAGE FACEBOOK SECTOR

Abstract

The article actualizes the socio-psychological problems of modern socially virtual mediated communication. A level model of escalation of tension and aggressiveness under conditions of unconscious provocative manipulation is discussed. The authors analyze confrontational attitudes, which are the intention in network discussions, which, whatever the topic, are of a trigger character, reflecting the irreconcilable communicative conflict of the scriptors. The paper analyzes 1341 comments in 20 network trigger discussions on history, politics, economics, ethnic and gender relations, literature and interethnic interaction, and ideas about the future. Subpositions of communicants are such markers of destructive installations as: frustration; negativism; devaluation, depression, hostility, hatred, envy, insults, animosity, threats, trolling, isolation, confrontation, extremism, chauvinism, defamation, harassment, fury, rage, depersonalization, provocation. Empirical analysis is based on a matrix approach (the author’s categorical matrix of network threats), intent analysis, factor analysis, solving the problem of identifying the hierarchy of constructs of group settings. Factors such as discrediting, including subpositions of depersonalization, chauvinism, insult, hostility, animosity and frustration, were identified; the factor of harassment, including scales of negativity, provocation and frustration, was revealed. The threat of such negatively saturated attitudes is offset by a third factor - isolation, correlating with hostility and envy. Thus, the scriptors of the Russian-speaking sector of Facebook have low activity, limiting themselves to expressing verbal aggression.