Open AccessINTERNET NEWS MEMES WITH POLITICAL OVERTONES IN THE PERCEPTION OF YOUNG PEOPLE
Author(s) -
D. S. Gorbatov,
P. Yu. Gurushkin
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
vek informacii
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2618-9291
DOI - 10.33941/age-info.com51(14)7
Subject(s) - the internet , anonymity , politics , perception , focus group , sociology , empirical research , psychology , focus (optics) , media studies , public relations , social psychology , political science , world wide web , epistemology , computer science , law , philosophy , physics , optics , neuroscience , anthropology
The purpose of the empirical research described in the article was to study the range of judgments that characterize the social perception of the student youth of Internet news memes with political overtones. The research method was a focus group interview using the Microsoft Teams platform. The four groups included 28 undergraduate students of higher educational institutions of St. Petersburg. The results of the study characterize the attitude of students to attempts to impose political overtones on Internet news memes, reflect their opinions about the mistakes made by the authors, contain arguments about the reasons for the anonymity of the authors of memes, describe the range of views on the problem of the responsibility of the authors of memes for violations of laws. In addition, students ' perceptions about changes in Internet memes, in particular, news memes, in the future were revealed.