The role of blogosphere in national internet space development

V.Z. Garifullin^*, L.R. Zakirov^**

Kazan Federal University, Kazan, 420008 Russia

E-mail: ^*vasilgarifullin@mail.ru, ^**linariken@mail.ru

Received April 16, 2018

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Abstract

The functioning of blogs in the Tatar language has been analyzed. Their place and role in the information space have been identified. The topics and blogs have been explored. The relevance of the study is determined by the fact that the blogosphere is one of the fastest growing segments of the Internet space, which accounts for an ever increasing attention of researchers to study its functioning problems. A number of examples have been provided to prove that Tatar-language blogs built in the general content of information resources in the Tatar language, often instead of specialized publications and websites.

The following conclusions have been made based on the obtained results:

– Blogs in the Tatar language are actively functioning in the framework of the popular social networks;

– Blogs are actively created on the websites of traditional media in order to provide feedback from the readers;

– Blogs in the Tatar language have a unique thematic scope, which is aimed primarily at discussion of the problems of education, development of national culture, literature and language;

– The most active themed blogs in the Tatar national blogosphere are devoted to the problems of national education and culture;

– In the framework of the information exchange network, the ethnicity factor is gradually “erased”; much of the content in the “Tatar blogosphere” is marked by national specificity;

– The posts made by Tatar-speaking bloggers do not have a specific frequency;

– The Tatar-language blogosphere makes a significant contribution to enrichment of the information field in the education process of technologically advanced youth, formation of modern scientific and intellectual elite at the national level;

– An urgent task is to support the efforts to preserve the mentality of the people, as well as the specifics of culture, language, social networks, methodological assistance in creation and development of Internet projects in the national languages of the Russian Federation, their progress in the global information space.

Keywords: blogosphere, information, communication, portal, user, culture, language

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For citation: Garifullin V.Z., Zakirov L.R. The role of blogosphere in national internet space development. Uchenye Zapiski Kazanskogo Universiteta. Seriya Gumanitarnye Nauki, 2018, vol. 160, no. 4, pp. 872–883. (In Russian)

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