Mediatization as an international humanitarian space forming factor

Olga Mironova,Olesya Shestopalova,Angelika Baicherova,Yuri Doroginin

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202128404016

Abstract

The study is devoted to understanding the role of mediatization processes at the present stage of globalization, one of the displays of which is forming the international humanitarian space. In most researches, the process of mediatization is considered exclusively as a modern phenomenon and in many cases is equated with digitalization of mass media. The authors consider that this process has been intrinsic for culture since its genesis. However, in modern conditions it has a certain specificity, to studying of which this article is devoted. Summarizing various points of view on the mediatization concept and essence interpretation, the authors come to the conclusion that the process of mediatization is a fundamental process of mutual influence of the media on various public life spheres, including culture. This leads to mutual changes in both interacting parties and various social practices and methods of communication between representatives of various social groups and strata, and also within these groups and strata. In modern conditions, this process acts as an international humanitarian space forming factor. Being a various-vector process, mediatization leads to both integrating and disintegrating consequences. It acts as an ambiguous and contradictory phenomenon, which determines the need for its comprehensive research and in-depth study within the framework of social and economic sciences.

Highlights

Developing digital information technologies in the modern post-industrial society principally changes the role of the media, turning them into the most important source of information about the world around us
The question that in modern conditions these processes act as an international humanitarian space forming factor is not fully disclosed
Mediatization as a process of implementing and steady growth of interaction between the media and society is a determining factor influencing the social life and consciousness/mentality, the culture of individual countries and of the whole humanity, which allows considering it as factor that encourages forming the international humanitarian space

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Introduction

Developing digital information technologies in the modern post-industrial society principally changes the role of the media, turning them into the most important source of information about the world around us. Digital mass media have both high speed and significant opportunities for wide spreading large pieces of information, which allows them to cover the entire globe with the broadcast of their information products, thereby creating a global media space. This process received the name mediatization in modern sources of scientific literature. Despite the wide coverage of the mediatization processes in scientific works and publicism, the works devoted to the problems of mediatization of humanitarian interaction between countries are currently practically not represented. The question that in modern conditions these processes act as an international humanitarian space forming factor is not fully disclosed. There is no unified clear interpretation of the "mediatization" concept, and the relations between mediatization processes and forming the humanitarian space on a planetary scale are underexplored

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