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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Sociology</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Sociology</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Социология</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-2272</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2408-8897</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumamba</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">45087</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-2272-2025-25-2-473-481</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">YBJLXJ</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Sociological lectures</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Социологический лекторий</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Sociology of the new media environment in the western post-truth society</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Социология новой медиасреды в западном обществе постправды</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Sharkov</surname><given-names>F. I.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Шарков</surname><given-names>Феликс Изосимович</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru">доктор социологических наук, заведующий кафедрой общественных связей и медиаполитики и заместитель декана факультета журналистики Института государственной службы и управления</bio><email>sharkov_felix@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Silkin</surname><given-names>V. V.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Силкин</surname><given-names>Владимир Владимирович</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru">доктор политических наук, декан факультета журналистики Института государственной службы и управления</bio><email>vv.silkin@migsu.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Kireeva</surname><given-names>O. F.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Киреева</surname><given-names>Ольга Феликсовна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru">кандидат социологических наук, доцент кафедры управления информационными процессами Института государственной службы и управления</bio><email>kirolga08@list.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Российская академия народного хозяйства и государственной службы при Президенте Российской Федерации</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2025-07-03" publication-format="electronic"><day>03</day><month>07</month><year>2025</year></pub-date><volume>25</volume><issue>2</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en"/><issue-title xml:lang="ru"/><fpage>473</fpage><lpage>481</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2025-07-17"><day>17</day><month>07</month><year>2025</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2025, Sharkov F.I., Silkin V.V., Kireeva O.F.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2025, Шарков Ф.И., Силкин В.В., Киреева О.Ф.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2025</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Sharkov F.I., Silkin V.V., Kireeva O.F.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Шарков Ф.И., Силкин В.В., Киреева О.Ф.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/sociology/article/view/45087">https://journals.rudn.ru/sociology/article/view/45087</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The new media presents forms of communication that facilitate production, distribution and exchange of content on platforms and networks that enable interaction and collaboration. Over the past three decades, the new media has developed rapidly and continues to develop in new, previously unknown ways, providing greater opportunities for social governance and political practice. With their convergent properties, the new media has changed the ways in which government institutions operate and political leaders communicate. The new media environment has significantly transformed the system of social communications and changed the role of journalists in political processes. Today digital platforms used by the media provide the electoral system with new ways of interacting with the electorate, introducing new ways for holding elections and in general expanding mechanisms of civil participation. At the same time, the new media in the post-truth society has become the main source of information, which presents lies supplemented by individual facts as news. The dubious quality of such news creates serious problems for the democratic discourse. In the emerging era of post-truth, the new media strengthens negative trends in the changing media environment, which undermines both the goals of democratically oriented media and the foundations of social-cultural development. This situation determines the need to analyze new patterns of audience behavior in connection with the development of the new media environment. The increasing effect of media dependence in the post-truth society has turned the new media into the main source of fakes, which is typical mainly for the American post-truth society. Based on the analysis of the traditional and new media, the authors show the ways to block the free dissemination of truthful information by the socalled “megaphone press”, serving as an advertising machine for politicians. The authors’ methodological approach to the study of the media environment is based on the principle of convergence of technologies and created and consumed content in the developing “post-truth society of the contemporary western type”. Convergence of the media environment, along with the positive trends, creates new opportunities and gives new impetus to the development of the post-truth society.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Новые медиа - это формы коммуникации, которые облегчают производство, распространение и обмен контентом на платформах и в сетях, обеспечивающих взаимодействие и сотрудничество. За последние три десятилетия они быстро развивались и продолжают развиваться новыми, неизвестными ранее путями. Новые медиа имеют широкое значение для социального управления и политической практики: обладая конвергентными свойствами, они радикально изменили способы работы государственных учреждений и коммуникации политических лидеров. Новая медиасреда существенно преобразовала систему социальных коммуникаций и изменила роль журналистов в политических процессах. Цифровые платформы, используемые в современных медиа, предоставляя электоральной системе новые способы взаимодействия с электоратом, позволяют внедрить новые способы проведения выборов и в целом расширить механизмы участия граждан в политике. В то же время новые медиа в обществе постправды превратились в основной источник информации, где ложь, приправленная отдельными фактами, выдается за новости. Сомнительное качество большей части таких новостей создает серьезные проблемы для функционирования демократического дискурса. В зарождающуюся эпоху постправды новые медиа усиливают негативные тенденции развития изменяющейся медиасреды, которые подрывают как цели демократически ориентированных медиа, так и основы социокультурного развития. Такая ситуация актуализирует необходимость анализа новых паттернов поведения аудитории в связи с развитием новой медиасреды. Возрастание эффекта медиазависимости в обществе постправды превращает новые медиа в основной источник фейковой информации, что характерно, прежде всего для американского общества постправды. На основе анализа особенностей традиционных и новых медиа в статье показаны способы блокирования свободного распространения правдивой информации так называемой «прессой-рупором», которая служит рекламной машиной для политиков. Методология авторского подхода к изучению медиасреды основана на принципе признания конвергенции технологий и создаваемого и потребляемого контента в контексте формирования «общества постправды современного западного типа». Конвергенция медиасреды, наряду с позитивными тенденциями современности, формирует новые возможности и дает новые импульсы для развития общества постправды.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>media environment</kwd><kwd>convergent media environment</kwd><kwd>new media</kwd><kwd>digital platforms</kwd><kwd>post-truth society</kwd><kwd>sociology of the media environment</kwd><kwd>patterns of the media audience behavior</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>медиасреда</kwd><kwd>конвергентная медиасреда</kwd><kwd>новые медиа</kwd><kwd>цифровые платформы</kwd><kwd>общество постправды</kwd><kwd>социология медиасреды</kwd><kwd>паттерны поведения аудитории медиа</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Al Sheikh A. The media in the post-­truth era: In the post-­truth world, a far-­right embrace of social media threatens the broadcasting of truth. December 11, 2016. 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