Expert Assessments of Media Industry Products: Information Safety for Children

Occupation: Professor, Head of the Department of University Management and Innovation in Education
Affiliation: Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod
Address: Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod

Alla K. Polyanina

Occupation: Associate Professor
Affiliation: Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod
Address: Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod

Journal name

Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya

Edition

Issue 7

Pages

83-89

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to evaluate effectiveness of expertise as a tool for managing information safety of society in the field of dangerous media products for children. Expertise is understood as one of the methods to reach compromise between conflicting interests of social groups in relation to the media products. The experts’ arguments, the percentage of violations detected by the expert in the total number of expert examinations, customers of expert opinions, types of information products and methods of disseminating information, the frequency of detecting certain categories of harmful information, formal and logical errors of experts were identified. Common problems of expert practice are identified and analyzed: lacking quality control of expertise; perversity of rules for financing expert events. Based on the analysis of experts' arguments, common errors in expert opinions are detected. The authority of the expert community, the "power of experts" is associated with the degree of "plasticity" in the wording of categorized harmful content. The conclusion is made about the gaps in the state design of this type of expert activity. The empirical base of the study was the texts of expert opinions in this area made between 2013 and 2019.

Keywords

management of children's information safety, problems of expert activity effectiveness, media security, age classification of media products

Received

19.07.2021

Publication date

21.09.2021

Number of characters

18145

Cite

GOST	Grudzinsky A., Polyanina A. Expert Assessments of Media Industry Products: Information Safety for Children // Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya – 2021. – Issue 7 C. 83-89 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/socis/s013216250012554-2-1-en (circulation date: 20.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S013216250012554-2
MLA	Grudzinsky, Alexander O, Polyanina, Alla K "Expert Assessments of Media Industry Products: Information Safety for Children." Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya 7 (2021):83-89. DOI: 10.31857/S013216250012554-2
APA	Grudzinsky A., Polyanina A. (2021). Expert Assessments of Media Industry Products: Information Safety for Children. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya (7), pp.83-89 DOI: 10.31857/S013216250012554-2

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