Management of the past. Mass media, myth -making, identity

"Management of the past" is a large -scale study of historical and political myths: their occurrence, transformation, disappearance in the conditions of a modern political process and the development of a mediatized society. The book presents a new look at the construction of national self -identification systems of different countries. In their study, the authors demonstrate the possibilities of a media geographical approach for tracking social processes, using various methods, including from the field of political media metrics, large data analysis, rank and factor analysis. The authors pay attention to the role of mass media and new communication technologies in the construction of mental landscapes of the global, regional and local levels and consider the mechanisms of the formation of historical memory: special attention is paid to the practices of promotion and the introduction of myths into mass consciousness. For politicians, political scientists, sociologists, experts in the field of international relations and national security, diplomatic workers, historians, teachers of the history of schools and universities, media studies, journalists, media managers, employees of public services and departments, ethnographers and geographers, cultural scientists.
The book will be interesting to a wide circle of readers, including those who include themselves to the number of Internet activists and Internet authors