Visual Means of Communication in a Contemporary Provincial Town (on the Example of Kurgan Graffiti)

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This article considers graffiti as a means of communication in the contemporary urban environment of a provincial town. The author provides several basic approaches to the definition of graffiti and gives some key classifications of graffiti that are used as a basis for analyzing and ranking the empirical data of the research.

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E V Maiseeva

Kurgan State University

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Email: KrohaSorti@mail.ru

Кафедра социологии и социальной работы; Курганский государственный университет; Kurgan State University

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