The space of political Internet communications in modern Russian Society

Abstract

The author examines the space of political Internet communications in modern Russian society. The subject of the study is Internet resources related to the dissemination of political content. The object of the study is the Internet resources. The purpose of this study is to examine the subjects of political and communicative relations on the Internet and to study the resources of the Internet environment, with a special focus on the YouTube and Telegram platforms, since they are leaders among similar resources. The analysis used general scientific methods, such as empirical, institutional and historical. These methods helped in studying the interaction of political actors, analyzing the role and influence of YouTube and Telegram on political communication, as well as in understanding the changes taking place in the modern political environment as a result of the development of the Internet. According to the results of the research, the following conclusions were made. Actors of political relations mainly use resources that are in demand among the population to disseminate information. Political and communicative subjects can be divided into state and copyright. Their main difference is the possession of direct power to regulate relations in the state. The main growth in the audience over the past year has been received by platforms such as Telegram and YouTube, which causes political actors to be interested in these sites. The author comes to the conclusion that the Internet is a new stage in the dissemination of political information, it is a unique space of political communications, which is an independent phenomenon with its own characteristics, having significant differences from the traditional dissemination of political information.