{"id":4788,"date":"2015-02-06T15:11:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T15:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media.am\/research-study-the-image-of-russia-in-armenias-online-media\/"},"modified":"2015-02-06T15:11:49","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T15:11:49","slug":"research-study-the-image-of-russia-in-armenias-online-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/newsroom\/2015\/02\/06\/4788\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Study: The Image of Russia in Armenia’s Online Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

In order to identify the image of modern Russia in Armenia’s social discourse, the Yerevan-based Region Research Center in October\u2013November 2014 conducted research into eight local online news media: 7or.am, 1in.am, Aravot.am. iLur.am, Lragir.am, News.am, Panorama.am, and Yerkir.am. <\/p>\n

The research<\/a> found that the majority of reports on Russia (61%) featured neutral coverage. However, assessments in the media were more negative than positive. In the aforementioned sites, there was negative treatment in 29% of descriptions of Russia, and only in 10% of cases was the disposition positive. <\/p>\n

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Authors of the research “The Image of Russia in the Armenian Media” calculated an “aggression index” (the ratio of negative to neutral content) and a “goodwill index” (the ratio of positive to neutral content). In the eight news sites studied, the aggression index toward Russia was 0.48; the goodwill index, 0.15.<\/p>\n

The Center conducted a similar research study in 2004\u20132005, and at the time, the aggression index was 0.32; the goodwill index, 0.24. Thus, in 10 years, the aggression index grew while the goodwill index dropped.<\/p>\n

According to Region Research Center Director and head of the research study Laura Baghdasaryan, the changes are insignificant, and it cannot be said that there is a negative attitude toward Russia in Armenia’s media. <\/p>\n

The research findings show that Lragir.am (52%), Aravot.am (40%), and 1in.am (36%) had the highest number of negative descriptions of Russia in their reporting. However, Aravot.am was also in the lead in terms of positive descriptions (19%), followed by Panorama.am (14%) and 1in.am (13%).<\/p>\n

Gegham Vardanyan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In order to identify the image of modern Russia in Armenia’s social discourse, the Yerevan-based Region Research Center in October\u2013November 2014 conducted research into eight local online news media: 7or.am, 1in.am, Aravot.am. iLur.am, Lragir.am, News.am, Panorama.am, and Yerkir.am. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsroom","author_posts-gegham-vardanyan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}