Media and Communications as the Vehicle of the Open Society
The Internet and the Global Society
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9849113 |
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| Authors | Yassen N Zassoursky (Faculty of Journalism, Moscow State University, 9 Mokhovaya, Moscow 101999, Russia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 425-432 |
| Publication date | 2002-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Gazette (Leiden Netherlands (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-5492 • E-ISSN: 1460-3594 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/17480485020640050301 |
| OpenAlex | W1983429383 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
The terrorist attack against the United States presented the global community with a new crisis of gigantic proportions, with a new threat to the open society and human civilization. Sir Karl Popper developed the concept of the `open society' after the defeat of Fascist totalitarianism. Mikhail Gorbachev's concept of glasnost has became a major factor in the defeat of one of the main enemies of the open society — Stalinist totalitarianism and authoritarianism at the end of the 20th century. Now it is the turn to fight terrorism, extremism, fanaticism, intolerance, fundamentalism and totalitarianism in the framework of a global, interdependent conglomerate of nations. And this poses new challenges to the open society, which can be solved only in a global context
Authoritarianism · Civilization · Context (archaeology · Democracy · Fanaticism · Fundamentalism · Interdependence · Islamic fundamentalism · Open society · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Terrorism · History · Law · Sociopolitical Dynamics in Russia
| Highly cited | No |
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