Modern Anti-System Terrorism and Pro-System Mass Media in the Structure of Social Ontology
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https://doi.org/10.47850/RL.2023.4.1.103-116Keywords:
social ontology, world-system, anti-systemic terrorism, mass media, means of armed violence, CNN effectAbstract
The article attempts a supra-disciplinary analysis of the role of modern mass media (media) in the activities of terrorist organizations. The theoretical and methodological basis was the world-system approach and the concepts of social ontology by N. S. Rozov. The description of the projections of anti-system terrorism through the spheres of socio-historical existence (biotechnosphere, sociosphere, cultural sphere, psychosphere) made it possible to better understand the ontology of terrorism and identify the mechanisms of interaction between it and the media, as well as their combined effect on society. Anti-system terrorist organizations may have their own media, but they get the widest audience by getting into the news reports of pro-system TV channels. The pro-systemic media defending the values of the geoculture of the societies that make up the world system, on the one hand, stigmatize terrorism as an evil, which is reflected in the psychosphere as an increase in fear in the public mind. On the other hand, the media in their messages are forced to rationalize terrorist activities. If fear forces society to put pressure on the government, which is the goal of terrorists, then rationalization leads to the emergence of various forms of support for terrorists by some members of society or segments of the population, especially in conditions of low legitimacy of power.
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