Media consumption of Donbass students: resources, formats, estimates

Section: Sociology of Journalism

The results of a survey conducted in December 2023 at three DPR universities – Donetsk State University (DonSU), Donbass National Academy of Building and Architecture (DonNABA) and Donetsk National Technical University (DonNTU) were examined. The survey involved 378 students representing different courses and areas of study and constituting a representative sample of the student population of those higher educational institutions. The survey revealed respondents’ preferred media resources, ways of working with them, clarified how students perceive media content and what factors influence their assessment. The resulting picture of student media consumption in the DPR is compared with the current understanding of the relationship between young Russians and the world of media. It is concluded that the media consumption of Donbass students, despite the specific situation in which that new region of the country is located, does not differ from the media consumption of their peers in the rest of Russia and is determined by the tendency to personalize that process, to obtain an emotional mood from immersion in the media environment and to gain the result of such a process of individual and social identity.

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To cite this article: Moskalenko N. M. (2024) Mediapotreblenie studentov Donbassa: resursy, formaty, otsenki [Media consumption of Donbass students: resources, formats, estimates]. Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seriya 10. Zhurnalistika 5: 79–99. DOI: 10.55959/msu.vestnik.journ.5.2024.7999