The media-geographical dimension of politics: a new research approach (review of M. M. Yanglyaeva’s monograph “The experiences in the political media geography. Moscow: IKAR, 2024. – 212 p.”)

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M. M. Yanglyaeva’s monograph explores the media-geographical approach potential in the applied political science research which aims to the effectively identify of the information threats in their various forms generated by the cross-border Internet communications, the digitalization of all areas of the social reality, and the mediatization of the political world. This approach combined with the statistical methods for processing big data arrays extracted from the World Wide Web and their verification allows us to study the mental fields formed under the global media influence. The concepts of mental landscape and mental relief which characterize the state, the heterogeneity and the dynamics of the public consciousness that reflecting the political phenomena and processes, are introduced into scientific circulation for a detailed study of mental in the political science context. Specific examples of the mental political fields’ construction are considered in the real time. The author is demonstrating the possibility of the political-media-geographical approach using to analyze the information environment, the regional separatism potential identify, and the modern system of political meanings study. The monograph contains diagrams, graphs, tables and other visual materials revealing the results of the author’s research and is of undoubted interest to both the specialists and the university students.

Keywords

• media geography
• applied political science research
• big data
• mental field
• information threats
• social consciousness
• regional separatism
• political meanings
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References

1. Yanglyaeva, M. M. Opyty politicheskoy mediageografii [The experiences in the political media geography]. Moscow: IKAR; 2024, 212 p.

2. Craine, J. Media geography. Oxford Bibliographes. 2014, March 27. Available at: https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199874002/obo-9780199874002-0101.xml (accessed: 29.08.2025).

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