The Mobilization of Youth Political Protest and Russian Video Bloggers: Cognitive Mapping Results
Journal: Galactica Media Journal of Media Studies
Year: 2021

The paper presents the results of using the cognitive mapping method to analyze the messages from video bloggers which were popular among Russian youth and covered protest actions in Russia in 2019-2020. The cognitive mapping method has not previously been used to interpret the information messages of representatives of the protest movement in modern Russia. The objective of the study is to identify the value systems, priorities, individual logical chains of opinion leaders in the Russian langua