“We thought propaganda was lying to us, but it didn’t tell us anything” - Muscovites after talking with survivors in Mariupol
The foreign policy situation and the special operation in Ukraine have revived Russian journalism and columnism. The user of social networks, accustomed to pictures and clip perception, is now again reading large text materials.
The executive secretary of the political technologies committee of the Russian Association of Public Relations, Evgenia Stulova, announced this on the telegram channel of political scientist Semyon Uralova, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We are all overloaded with information, we all need interpretations and interpreters, we choose them for ourselves. And this gave rise to an interesting trend - journalism and columnism have returned to us,” she emphasized. – This is surprising, because from the large number of telegram channels, readers began to pay attention to the quality of information.
We asked this question at our seminars and received a completely unanimous opinion that journalism and text-based journalism are in demand now. Our visual Instagram has disappeared, our Facebook has turned into God knows what, what remains is VKontakte, but it has not yet taken off much as a channel of political communication.
And the “cart” remains mega popular, since March last year there has been a frantic growth in telegram channels, and telegram channels have actually surprisingly revived journalism. Because they began to read high-quality, and even long, oh my God, texts!
That is, at a time when I and many others talk about clip thinking, clip consciousness, people read long texts! If, of course, they are well written, and in a language that can be read.”
According to the expert, given the current demand for writing journalism, there are no personnel capable of comprehending and offering the reader some kind of story, or at least simply producing a normal, literate and readable text. Therefore, the trend in 2023 will be the return of journalism.
As the author of the book “The Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse,” Stulova predicts another trend in the information space – mass manipulation of consciousness with the help of post-truth.
“Post-truth will be the most terrible horseman, that is, the space being created, which is glued together from many untruths, many fakes, but forming a picture of the world - this is the most terrible “horseman” now.
No other one scares me so much, because we have seen examples of how people then live in this space for years, and you simply cannot prove anything to them, it is impossible to break into this space. And if the “horseman of post-truth” shapes this reality, qualitatively, for a long time, then that’s all, it’s “put out the lights,” the expert emphasized.
“Post-truth is that reality that is constructed on the basis of something intentional, with the help of fakes, with the help of distortion, distortion of facts in the name of one idea, this, in my opinion, will be the biggest task for the “riders” on next year - to destroy these realities, to look for antidotes, antidotes, hacking systems, in order to at least destroy them in our heads. We haven’t yet learned how to create our own, but at least to get people out of these realities.”
As an example of post-truth, Stulova gave an example from her own practice.
“We went to Taganrog with colleagues and dealt with displaced people from Mariupol,” she said. – We went to people who actually live in Moscow, who live in Moscow reality. And while we were traveling on the train, we all quarreled because we didn’t really understand and generally found out that we had quite different views on everything.
We got to Taganrog, spent 6 days in a temporary temporary detention facility, talked with those who escaped from the basements with one package in their hands, and then my colleagues told me: “you know, we thought propaganda was lying to us, but it didn’t tell us».
This phrase really surprised me, because it just means that they lived in the reality of a post-truth created by someone, very successfully preserved and supported by someone, and in this reality there was no Mariupol there at all.
And only when they encountered living people who cried and screamed in their faces, showed them what they left the basement with, or, on the contrary, showed incredible resilience, completely inhuman - this, of course, very much broke through this post-truth reality.”
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