Beyond the Binary: Toward the Paraconsistencies of Russian Communication Modes

Authors

  • Igor E. Klyukanov Professor of Communication Department of Communication Studies Eastern Washington University Cheney, WA 99004-2431 Tel: (509)359-2863 Fax: (509)359-2496 E-mail: iklyukanov@ewu.edu
  • Galina Sinekopova Professor of Communication Department of Communication Studies Eastern Washington University Cheney, WA 99004-2431 Tel: (509)359-2865 Fax: (509)359-2496 E-mail: gsinekopova@ewu.edu

Keywords:

digital, analog, Russia, identity, paraconsistent logic, public sphere

Abstract

Russian communication is often viewed as inherently mysterious or even mystical. The present article is aimed at the exposition of this view and shows how Russian communication modes can be conceptualized as a constant search for their own logical and practical grounding: This search goes beyond the binary model and focuses on the contingent nature of communication. To that end, we first present a short overview of the concepts of analog and digital. Then, the analog roots of Russian culture are discussed, followed by an examination of the role of the digital in today’s Russia. It is argued that the dynamic of the analog and the digital leads to a third ground, which is conceptualized by using the ideas of paraconsistent logic developed by Nikolai Vasil’ev. Finally, this third ground is identified with the public sphere and is presented as interaction between the state and individuals; electronic communication exemplars are given.

Author Biographies

Igor E. Klyukanov, Professor of Communication Department of Communication Studies Eastern Washington University Cheney, WA 99004-2431 Tel: (509)359-2863 Fax: (509)359-2496 E-mail: iklyukanov@ewu.edu

Igor E. Klyukanov has authored numerous articles, book chapters, and books in communication theory, semiotics, translation studies, general linguistics, and intercultural communication. His works have been published in U. S., Russia, England, Spain, Costa Rica, Serbia, Bulgaria, India and Morocco. His works have appeared in such journals as Studies in Humanities,The American Journal of Semiotics, The Atlantic Journal of Communication,Arob@ase: A Journal of Literature and Human Sciences, International Journal ofCommunication, International Journal of Applied Semiotics, Language, Individual& Society, Contrastes: Revista Interdisciplinar de FilosofÍa, and Discourse and Society. He served as an associate editor of The American Journal of Semiotics and is the founding editor of Russian Journal of Communication. 

Galina Sinekopova, Professor of Communication Department of Communication Studies Eastern Washington University Cheney, WA 99004-2431 Tel: (509)359-2865 Fax: (509)359-2496 E-mail: gsinekopova@ewu.edu

Galina V. Sinekopova is Director of the Master of Science in Communications program. She has published articles in such journals as Journal of Communications, Journal of Language and Social Psychology, Listening - Journal of Communication Ethics, and Religion and Culture. Recently, her chapter (co-authored with Igor E. Klyukanov on Press in Post-Soviet societies has appeared in International handbook of media and mass communication theory (Wiley-Blackwell) She has presented her research at conferences in U.S., Canada, China, Taiwan, Turkey, Russia, and Bulgaria. She served as a guest-editor of two issues of International Journal of Communication (Bahri Publications).

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Published

2016-04-28

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Vol. 10 (2016)

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