Abstract
Conceptualization of the phenomenon of modern protest is important for understanding the current political and social space. The aim of the research is a comprehensive comparative system – communicative study based on a separate communicative practice (online petition) of modern protest in Russia and Germany in the context of changes in the information and communication space, parameters of satisfaction, dialectics of the general and linguo-sociocultural specific. In their research the authors use such approaches as integrative (allowing to use achievements in the given field of linguistics, sociology, political science, cultural studies, media psychology); system-communicative (to study the main communicative dimensions of protest practice), comparative (to determine the general characteristics and linguistic-socio-cultural specifics of the analyzed protest practice). The results obtained contribute to the further development of the provisions of the communicative theory of protest, to the comprehension of the communicative nature of social phenomena, the interaction of technological and socio-cultural changes; they can be used to optimize the management of conflict societies.
Highlights
Today’s communication practices of protest illustrate new opportunities and new «disadvantages» and problems associated with the globalization of the media, modern information and communication technologies and electronic democracy as an actual form of communication between citizens and authorities ; transformations of retial social mass communication, communicative experience and the subject of communication itself, mediatization of public life and the individual, new forms of collective interaction [Rebrina, Shamne, 2020a]
The communicative behavior of the Russianspeaking addresser is dominated by the tactics of psychological argumentation indicating the dominance of the fixation on mobilizing supporters from among the platform users, which entails the specifics of stylistic syncretism of these petitions; logical argumentation is a peripheral phenomenon in both practices
Analysis of online petitions at German- and Russian-language platforms indicates their common integrative nature, which is manifested in their polyfunctionality, discursive hybridity, and stylistic syncretism
Summary
Today’s communication practices of protest illustrate new opportunities and new «disadvantages» and problems associated with the globalization of the media, modern information and communication technologies and electronic democracy as an actual form of communication between citizens and authorities ; transformations of retial social mass communication, communicative experience and the subject of communication itself, mediatization of public life and the individual, new forms of collective interaction [Rebrina, Shamne, 2020a]. (different levels of participation from «clicktivism» to initiation of protest actions [Berg, 2017]), constructive and active protest (participants of which differ in heterogeneity of behavior and motivation (activism consumers, new lobbyists, hit activists, stakeholders – neue Lobbyisten, hit and run-Aktivisten, Activism Consumers und Single Issue Stakeholders [Jungherr, Jürgens, 2011]) [Rebrina, Shamne, 2020a ; Rebrina, Shamne, Eltanskaya, 2020b]
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