Mediatisation of social practices: risks and consequences

Authors

  • Nataliya A. Fedotova Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliezhnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

Keywords:

mediatisation, social practices, risks, temporality, control, decentralisation, gameisation (gamification)

Abstract

The author of the article analyses the influence of the mediatisation process on various spheres of public life and social practices. The methodological basis of the article is the principles of social and materialist phenomenology, the ideas of structuralism and network theory, as well as an interdisciplinary approach that allows us to consider digital media in connection with social and anthropological changes. The conducted research allows us to identify the risks and consequences of ongoing social transformations in the categories of temporality, control, decentralisation of interaction and space, gameisation (gamification) of social interactions.

Author Biography

  • Nataliya A. Fedotova, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliezhnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

    PhD (philology), docent; associate professor at the department of medialogy, faculty of jour­nalism

References

  1. Berdyaev NA. [Man and machine (problem of sociology and metaphysics of technology) (extract)]. Vestnik Universiteta imeni O. E. Kutafina. 2022;4:246–256. Russian.
  2. Maklyuen GM. Ponimanie media: vneshnie rasshireniya cheloveka [Understanding media: external extensions of human]. Moscow: Kuchkovo pole; 2003. 464 p. Russian.
  3. Keane J. Demokratiya i dekadans media [Democracy and media decadence]. Moscow: Publishing House of the Higher School of Economics; 2015. 312 p. Russian.
  4. Radkevich AL. Internet-based social practices as a subject of sociological analysis [Internet]. 2009 [cited 2024 May 21]. Avaible from: http://www.zpu-journal.ru/e-zpu/2009/3/Radkevich/. Russian.
  5. Latur B. Peresborka sotsial’nogo: vvedenie v aktorno-setevuyu teoriyu [Reassembling the social: an introduction to actornetwork theory]. Moscow: Publishing House of the Higher School of Economics; 2014. 384 p. Russian.
  6. Berger P, Lukman T. Sotsial’noe konstruirovanie real’nosti. Traktat po sotsiologii znaniya [Social construction of reality. Treatise on the sociology of knowledge]. Moscow: Medium; 1995. 323 p. Russian.
  7. Hegel G. Raboty raznykh let. Tom 2 [Works from different years. Volume 2]. Moscow: Mysl’; 1973. 630 p. Russian.
  8. Drozdova AV. New temporality of daily practices in online-communication. Yaroslavl Pedagogical Bulletin. 2019;4:173–177. Russian. DOI: 10.24411/1813-145X-2019-10467.
  9. Kastels M. Informatsionnaya epokha: ekonomika, obshchestvo i kul’tura [Information age: economy, society and culture]. Moscow: Higher School of Economics; 2000. 608 p. Russian.
  10. Altheide DL, Snow RP. Media worlds in the postjournalism era. New York: Routledge; 2019. 274 p. DOI: 10.4324/9781351328883.
  11. Manovich L. Yazyk novykh media [The language of new media]. Moscow: AdMarginem press; 2018. 400 p. Russian.
  12. Brin D. The transparent society: freedom vs privacy in a city of glass houses. Reading: Addison-Wesle; 1998. 378 p.
  13. van den Bumen M. How digital becomes social. Neprikosnovennyi zapas. 2020;2:17–39. Russian.
  14. van Dijck J. Datafication, dataism and dataveillance: big data between scientific paradigm and ideology. Surveillance & Society. 2014;12(2):197–208.
  15. Foucault M. Nadzirat’ i nakazyvat’. Rozhdenie tyur’my [Supervise and punish. The birth of a prison]. Moscow: AdMarginem press; 2022. 416 p. Russian.
  16. Qiu T, Ning Ch, Keqiu Li, Mohammed A, Wenbing Zh. How can heterogeneous Internet of things build our future: a sur¬- vey. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. 2018;20(3):2011–2027. DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2018.2803740.
  17. Novikova ON. Gamification of human being in the context of digital culture. Socium i vlast’. 2020;5:78–85. Russian. DOI: 10.22394/1996-0522-2020-5-78-85.
  18. Fortunatov AN. Axiology of imitative communication: formulation of the problem. Humanitarian vector. 2022;17(4): 32–38. Russian. DOI: 10.21209/1996-7853-2022-17-4-32-38.
  19. Tul’chinskii GL. [Digitalisation: opportunities and social and humanitarian costs]. Vedomosti prikladnoi etiki. 2021;57: 34–47. Russian.

Downloads

Published

2024-10-23

Issue

No. 2 (2024): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Journalism

Section

Media Strategies and Tactics

License

The authors who are published in this journal agree to the following:

  1. The authors retain copyright on the work and provide the journal with the right of first publication of the work on condition of license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial. 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).
  2. The authors retain the right to enter into certain contractual agreements relating to the non-exclusive distribution of the published version of the work (e.g. post it on the institutional repository, publication in the book), with the reference to its original publication in this journal.
  3. The authors have the right to post their work on the Internet (e.g. on the institutional store or personal website) prior to and during the review process, conducted by the journal, as this may lead to a productive discussion and a large number of references to this work. (See The Effect of Open Access.)

How to Cite

Mediatisation of social practices: risks and consequences. (2024). Journal of the Belarusian State University. Journalism, 2, 10-17. https://journals.bsu.by/index.php/journalism/article/view/6435