Popularity of Social Networks Among Armenian Users
https://doi.org/10.53658/RW2024-4-1(11)-102-123
Abstract
Now there is active debate about the influence of virtual (online) communication on real (offline) communication. Do online and offline communications complement each other, or will online communication gradually completely replace real (offline) communication, including in the professional and personal life of a modern person? If people stay at home and go about their daily activities without interacting with other members of society and this suit them, then they will not make efforts to create social connections outside the online sphere, and the field of real (offline) relationships is completely or significantly transformed. The article discusses: the spread of social networks among Armenian users, online and/or offline communication preferences of Armenian users in one or another area of life, depending on age, gender and the subject of communication. As a result of the study, conducted by questionnaire, preferences were identified on the basis of which users build online communication, which determines the purposes of using social networks in Armenia.
The research was carried out with the financial support of Yerevan State University according to the scientific project “Mechanisms of dissemination and consumption of fake news in social networks”, 2022-2024. The article was prepared according to the International Academic Mobility Program, organized by the National Research Institute of the Communications Development for young scientists from foreign countries.
About the Author
A. A. Karapetyan
Yerevan State University
Armenia
Armenia
Anrieta A. KARAPETYAN. Postgraduate student of Faculty of Sociology
6, Miklukho-Maklaya street, Yerevan, 117198
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Karapetyan A.A. Popularity of Social Networks Among Armenian Users. Russia & World: Sc. Dialogue. 2024;(1):102-123. https://doi.org/10.53658/RW2024-4-1(11)-102-123
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