Digital Critical Media Theory: Reasons and Explanatory Possibilities

For citation: Dekalov V.V. (2018) Digital'naya kriticheskaya teoriya media: osnovaniya i ob"yasnitel'nyye vozmozhnosti [Digital Critical Media Theory: Reasons and Explanatory Possibilities]. Mediaskop 2. (in Russian). Available at: http://www.mediascope.ru/2443

DOI: 10.30547/mediascope.2.2018.5

© Vladislav V. Dekalov

PhD student at the Chair of Public Relations in Business, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Saint Petersburg State University (St. Petersburg, Russia), andavior@gmail.com

Abstract

The article deals with political media theory, operating within the critical paradigm, particularly with its "digital" branch. The author considers the history of critical paradigm and its current state. Prospects for applying digital critical concepts for revealing the conflict potential and the contradictions of the mediated network society are presented.

Keywords: political media theory, critical theory, network society.

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