Abstract:
In the 21st century, new means of information and
communication technologies have become an important tool for
many countries in terms of expanding political rights and freedoms,
forming a rule-of-law state, and achieving the ideals of a democratic
society. The paper aims to study trends and carry out a qualitative
assessment of the interdependence of the media and social platforms
and political culture of citizens of three Central Asian countries:
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan. This work aims to fill the
existing theoretical gap regarding the issues of mutual influence of
political culture and media in the states above. The study reveals the
factors of public political participation in the three countries
examined through the prism of comparing indicators of public
participation in political processes in the context of the development
and emergence of new types of media and social network platforms.
The paper analyses the essential features of each country’s
development of democratic institutions and civil dialogue,
considering the role of traditional media and social networks as
implementation tools. Based on the experience of the three countries
examined, the results of the study give reason to say that the media
(including social networks and media platforms) do not have a
decisive influence on the formation of political culture.
Transformation processes in the sphere above of these countries are
fragmentary, affecting to a greater extent issues of individual
perception of political processes, as a rule, without significant
external manifestation. The findings of the study provide grounds to
assert that the theoretical comprehension of political culture in the
examined countries is scarcely distinguishable from the concept of
political awareness.
