"Creative" Bolotnaia and "Public" Poklonnaia: The Visual Representation of Protests in the Russian Media Cover Image

"Креативная" Болотная и "народная" Поклонная: визуальный ряд митингов в российских СМИ
"Creative" Bolotnaia and "Public" Poklonnaia: The Visual Representation of Protests in the Russian Media

Author(s): Anastasiya Kalk
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Центр независимых социологических исследований (ЦНСИ)
Keywords: Visual Analysis; Critical Media Studies; Protests; Images of Protestors; Russia

Summary/Abstract: Beginning in December 2011, the Russian media has become a site for the construction of a perticular metalanguage, through which journalists describe the current political context in general and the imaginaries of the protest movement in particular as a revolution of the "creative (middle) class." The artificially generated opposition of categories of participants' backgrounds in oppositional and progovernment protest circulates in "official," government-controlled and "independent," liberal media outlets alike. In these circumstances of the mediatization of society, political struggle is conducted with the help of concrete images.

  • Issue Year: 4/2012
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 164-172
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Russian