Struggle for Identity and Transformation of Social Media as Space of Interaction between State and Society
Journal: Journalism and mass communication
Year: 2015

The article is devoted to the struggle for identity which has been intensified in the Russian social media in 2014 both on interpretation of the historical past and on the up-to-date situation, especially, Crimea events.Authors suppose that as a result social media become a means of manipulation more than independent space with rizhoma nature.In 2011-2012 social media were the space of struggle between authority and political opposition.Today space of social media is looking polarized regarding