The role of Russian mass media in the system of communicative relations between the state and society. Review of Markov, E.A. Rossiiskaya vlast' i SMI: istoriya informatsionnogo vzaimodeistviya: monografiya [Russian authorities and mass media: the history of information interaction: a monograph]. Moscow: RUSAINS, 2021.

Abstract

The proposed work analyzes a monograph published in 2021 by Evgenii A. Markov, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor of the Department of Social Communications and Media of Cherepovets State University. In the monograph, he made an attempt to explain the role and importance of the mass media in the communication system “the State – Mass Media – Society.” The importance of the work under review lies in a comprehensive insight into the problems of transformation of communicative and informational relations between the state and society as well as factors that influenced the formation of the present-day system of interaction between the authorities and society, which generally allows not only seeing the ongoing political processes in proper perspective but also predicting their further development. The author’s research interest has been associated with this problem for quite a while, and he devoted his new work to identifying the origins, traditions, and modern trends that influence the process of communicative interaction between the government institutions, mass media, and society in modern Russia.

Keywords

• information policy
• power
• authorities
• mass media
• society
• state
• communication
• propaganda