Strategies of Obtaining Political and Legal Information under the Military Conflict in the East of Ukraine

  • L. Nykonenko Junior Researcher Fellow of the Laboratory of Psychology Political-Law Activity of the Institute of Social and Political Psychology of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
Keywords: students, sources of information, close social environment, educational environment, social institutions, the media

Abstract

The article presents the results of an empirical study of strategies for obtaining information of political and legal content by the students in the context of the military conflict in the East of Ukraine. In the process of theoretical analysis, sources are derived from the close social environment of the individual, educational environment of the university, the media and individual social institutions. The tendencies of their use for obtaining political and legal information are analyzed. It is revealed that the representatives of the close social environment are most trusted: members of the family, mates and friends. In the environment of higher education, teachers and classmates get the greatest trust. It is empirically proven that from the point of view of political and legal communications, the student group at the same time plays the role of both the educational environment and the student’s close social environment. There is proven point of complexity of the public positioning in the student’s environment of the political and legal position in which the events of the Revolution of Dignity (2013–2014) are regarded by the student as unlawful and unconstitutional. It has been determined that multiple media is the main source of information on political and legal content. Most students are using social networks and the magical websites. There is a wide spreader in the student community fear of tracking in social networks, which is overcome by strategies: 1) avoiding discussion on political and legal topics in the virtual space; 2) multiple virtual self-presentation using different accounts (including anonymous ones); 3) refusing to register in social networks. As for social institutions, it has been determined that the information which is received from volunteers and representatives of NGOs and movements gets the greatest trust from students. Representatives of the authorities and politicians are the anti-trust leaders of the student community.

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L. Nykonenko
Junior Researcher Fellow of the Laboratory of Psychology Political-Law Activity of the Institute of Social and Political Psychology of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

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Theoretical and methodological issues of legal psychology