THE CONCEPT OF DECOLONIZATION AND PROSPECTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATIONAL MEDIA SPACE
Abstract
One of the challenges of Russian aggression is reasonably considered to be the invasion and attempts to control the Ukrainian media space. The information influence of the aggressor state is aimed, in particular, at the liquidation of Ukrainian statehood and the destruction of Ukrainian identity. One of the means of countering such a destructive influence is considered to be the decolonization of the national media as a means of removing narratives, markers, or symbols of Russian and Soviet imperial policy from the Ukrainian public space.
The purpose of the presented work is to meaningfully define the concept of decolonization in the context of the development of the national media space. The implementation of the corresponding research goal is ensured by solving the following tasks: 1) the content of the concepts of "colonization," "decolonization," and "media space" is outlined; 2) an understanding of the concept of decolonization as a factor in the development of the national media space is formulated.
In the proposed work, the method of information retrieval was used to select scientific materials that examined various aspects of such phenomena as colonization and decolonization. The phenomenon of media space was studied using the descriptive method and the method of problem analysis. The involvement of general theoretical and analytical methods was carried out to formulate the author's understanding of the concept of decolonization as a factor in the development of the national media space.
Based on the results of the study, the author emphasizes that colonization has social, economic, political, and cultural aspects. At the same time, the imposition of cultural and economic standards and approaches poses the greatest danger. A practical means of imposing such standards and approaches is the media space, which, being saturated with colonial narratives and values, transforms human consciousness and destroys self-identification.
Based on the above, the state information policy of Ukraine should be based, inter alia, on the concept of decolonization in the context of the development of the national media space.
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