Transparency and its manifestations in Russian media discourse: a case study of HC traktor
The article explores the manifestations of transparency related to the Russian political management in 2018–2019. A discursive analysis included the media materials covering the decision by Chelyabinsk (the seventh largest city in Russia) regional authorities, without public discussion, to alloc...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2024
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/23825/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/23825/1/komunikasi_4.pdf |
| Summary: | The article explores the manifestations of transparency related to the Russian political management
in 2018–2019. A discursive analysis included the media materials covering the decision by Chelyabinsk
(the seventh largest city in Russia) regional authorities, without public discussion, to allocate
significant funds from the city budget to support HC Traktor. The public discussion of this issue was
widely reflected in the media. Civic activists accessed official online documents concerning the
participatory financing and initiated an online dialogue with the authorities, disagreeing with their
decisions, offering alternatives, and suggesting that internal political management be made more
public. The study systematizes various aspects of transparency: openness, availability, clarity,
democracy, visibility and accountability. Since new media and social networks play a key role in the
interaction between the state authorities and public, the paper considers all the structural elements
of modern media communication: addressees, target audience, channels of information, the content
and form of publications, their perlocutionary effect. The results of our study proved that
communicative success was reached by breaking language standards, polycode information delivery,
and storytelling techniques. The perlocutionary effect of this transparent media communication was
difficult and deferred. The public dialogue did not satisfy the initial public demand, but it did influence
the management practices (further reflected in Russia’s federal legislation) and accompanied changes
in the composition of regional elites. |
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