Open AccessMobilization agenda of generations in the mirror of the "IQBuzz" system (experience of analyzing protests in Siberian cities)
Author(s) -
Yuriy Pustovoyt
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
žurnal političeskih issledovanij
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2587-6295
DOI - 10.12737/2587-6295-2021-5-2-102-116
Subject(s) - politics , context (archaeology) , mobilization , identity (music) , political economy , state (computer science) , similarity (geometry) , political science , sociology , collective identity , power (physics) , law , geography , physics , archaeology , algorithm , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , acoustics , computer science , image (mathematics)
The aim of this work is to study changes in the mobilization agenda (printed and audiovisual statements by leaders and participants of political communities aimed at establishing control over significant resources) in the context of generational change. The research design was set by theoretical constructs formulated within the tradition of identifying and describing the dynamics of generations (K. Mannheim, W. Strauss, N. Hove, V. Radaev), a complex of the theory of identity formation through interactive ritual interaction (R. Collins, N. Rozov) and the theory of mobilization by Ch. Tilly. The focus of attention is the hypothesis of V. Radaev about the intergenerational «rift», the absence of common political themes between the representatives of the Soviet and Russian generations. Using the capabilities of cybermetric methods provided by the IQBuzz automated message analysis system, the author identifies message complexes that determine the mobilization agenda in January 2021 in Siberian cities. Comparison of the obtained data with real behavior and comparison of significant publications with each other by methods of similarity and difference allow us to draw a conclusion about the peculiarities of the manifestation of political activity of millennials. The results show that, as such, there is no intergenerational rift, despite all the dissimilarity, the Soviet and Russian generations have a number of common politicized topics (social justice, national identity). The main symbolic conflict takes place between the «power» communities, those who have received certain competitive collective advantages within the framework of the policy declared by the state (political agenda), and those who do not have them («non-systemic opposition»). The line of conflict runs rather between representatives of the same generation, peers, some of whom are included in the official political system and those that act independently in the political field. The results obtained show the prospects of continuing the work and are quite organically combined with the existing theoretical traditions of the study of generations: the classical archetypes of «prophets», «nomads» and «heroes» and Soviet studies of the «sixties» - «seventies».