Social and Cultural Value Orientations of Russian Youth. VALERY LuKOV ...
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Table of Contents Preface MARJATTA VANHALA-ANISZEWSKI AND LEA SIILIN
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Introduction MARJATTA VANHALA-ANISZEWSKI AND LEA SIILIN
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Youth and Mass Media: Interaction, Trust and Expectations VERA GNEvASHEvA AND OKSANA NAmLINSKAIA
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Social and Cultural Value Orientations of Russian Youth VALERY LuKov, VLADImIR LuKov AND NIKoLAI ZAKHARov
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Russian Youth: Theoretical and Empirical Research VALERY LuKov
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The Concept of Gosudarstvennost’ (‘statehood’) in Contemporary Russian Media Discourse RIITTA PYYKKö
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Images of Europe and ”Europeanness” in Contemporary Russian Media Texts MARJATTA VANHALA-ANISZEWSKI
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Commissars on the Market: Discursive Commodities of the Youth Movement NASHI JuSSI LASSILA
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Linguistic and Visual ‘Shock Therapy’: Brand-building of the Shok Chocolate Bar AILA PESoNEN
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Investigating Spiritual and Religious Values Mediated by Russian Orthodox Youth Media LEA SIILIN
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Conceptualizations of Fascism and Anti-fascism on Rodnoverie Internet Forums KAARINA AITAmuRTo
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List of Contributors
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List of Contributors Kaarina Aitamurto is a researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute at the University of Helsinki. Her research interests include new religious movements in Russia and the relationship between religion and nationalism. She is currently writing her Ph.D. thesis on contemporary Slavic Paganism. Vera Gnevasheva is the Head of the Centre for Social Project Planning of University Education and Sociology of Youth at the Institute of Humanitarian Research at the Moscow University for the Humanities. Her main fields of academic activity are the sociology of youth and economics. Gnevasheva’s research interests include methodology of humanitarian knowledge; sociology of youth, cultural values of Russian youth and the current state of Russian economics. Jussi Lassila is a researcher and Ph.D. student at the Aleksanteri Institute at the University of Helsinki and University of Jyväskylä (Russian Language and Culture). His main research interests are discourse studies and multidisciplinary approaches to language and culture, especially relations between institutions, ideologies and language use. His Ph.D. thesis concerns discourses of Pro-Kremlin youth organizations during the Putin era from the critical and
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discourse historical perspective. Valery Lukov is Vice-rector of Moscow University for the Humanities, Professor and Head of the Institute of Humanitarian Research. His main spheres of activity are sociology of youth, culturology, and philosophy. His research interests include methodology of humanitarian knowledge; the thesaurus approach and its application to the sociology of youth; sociology of culture, cultural values of Russian youth and the sociological and culturological examination of Russian social institutions. Vladimir Lukov is Professor and Head of the Theory and History of Culture Centre of the Institute of Humanitarian Research of Moscow University for the Humanities. His main spheres of activity are culturology, philology, and sociology of culture. Lukov’s research interests include methodology of humanitarian knowledge; the thesaurus approach and its application to culturology, philology, and sociology of culture; cultural values of Russian youth; culturological and sociological investigation of television. Okasana NamlinskaIa is a junior researcher at the Institute of Humanitarian Research at Moscow University for the Humanities. Her main field of activity is the sociology of Russian youth. NamlinskaIa’s research interests are methodology of humanitarian knowledge; sociology of youth, social and cultural values of Russian youth; sociological and culturological examination of young Russians. Aila Pesonen is a researcher and Lecturer in Russian Language at the University of Vaasa. Her research interests include Russian advertising discourse, as well as contemporary themes related to multimodality and contrastive linguistics. Riitta Pyykkö is Professor of Russian Language and Head of the Department of Russian Studies at the University of Turku. Her scientific interests are Russian lexicology, language of politics, discourse analyses, language policy, and
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Russian cultural history. Lea Siilin is a researcher in Russian Language at the University of Joensuu. Her research interests include a wide range of topics from the history of Russian and Church Slavonic, old Russian hagiography, the Russian Orthodox faith and church to themes related to contemporary Russian media and its language use. Marjatta Vanhala-Aniszewski is Professor of Russian Language and Culture at the University of Jyväskylä. Her research interests include issues of syntax, semantics and pragmatics, as well as a contrastive analysis with Finnish. Her current research topics are discourse analysis, especially critical discourse analysis and the relation between language use and the socio-cultural context. She is the author of several articles on the language of Russian media texts as well as academic texts. Nikolai Zakharov is Scientific Manager at the Institute of Humanitarian Research, Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Philological Disciplines at Moscow University for the Humanities. He is the author and/or co-author of three monographs and numerous articles on Pushkin and Shakespeare, which were published in various academic journals and collections.
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