Abstract
This text is a continuation of the analysis of the attitudes of politically engaged users of the Facebook, conducted between 13.12.2020 and 25.01.2021 on a sample of 220 respondents. The first statistical conclusions and the full description of the methodology were published in the issue 1/2021 of Przegląd Politologiczny (Pawlak, 2021). In this text, I focused on the interpretation of the open part of the questionnaire, in which the respondents expressed their own ideas and forecasts regarding the possibility of ending/mitigating the conflict. While the data from closed questions could be treated as coming from a group representative of politically engaged Facebook users in Poland (although this condition was more of an added value than the intention behind the research), the material containing answers to open-ended questions is no longer of this nature. This is due to the fact that 43.6% of the respondents left this section unanswered. The analysis presented here prompts reflection on the conciliatory potential of social media, which I consider to be an important platform for political debate in the 21st century.
Highlights
The classical approach to political science treats political culture – despite the anthropological origins of this phenomenon – primarily as a psychological orientation towards social objects
The analysis presented here is a pretext to reflect on the potential and role of social media in contemporary public debate
A large proportion of the respondents distanced themselves from the problem or denied its existence, pointing to the fact that conflict is an inherent element of politics
Summary
The classical approach to political science treats political culture – despite the anthropological origins of this phenomenon – primarily as a psychological orientation towards social objects. It was that the basic features characteristic of both modern communication systems and, their users were established: entertainment, superficiality, visuality, differentiation, non-linearity, standardization, contextual ambiguity, increasing mercantilism, polysemy, fluctuation, information overload, increasing dynamics, globality, fragmentation, acceleration and increasing instrumentalization of the media for economic purposes (advertising), and for political purposes (propaganda) (Dijk van, 2010; Castells, 2013) The consequence of this state of affairs in the area of political culture is, among others, the so-called slactivism – that is, to put it as briefly as possible, the expression of civic activity in a primarily virtual dimension. Characteristic and – in my opinion – positive for the condition of democracy and political culture seems to be the fact that a significant part of conciliatory statements is substantive They are more extensive than aggressive and neutral statements, and are supported by the involvement of the respondents in the problem of resolving the dispute. It can be assumed that the nature of the statements of the surveyed group is moderately strongly related to the political orientation of the respondents
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