The Use of Humanitarian Technologies for the Shaping of Public Consciousness in the Foreign Practice
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The article presents the results of evaluating of using humanitarian technologies to shape public opinion using Western countries as an example. It is concluded that Western countries today are aimed at maintaining technical and economic leadership, which requires the formation of a type of public consciousness corresponding to this goal through the active use of modern technologies. As a result, the public consciousness of the population of Western countries is changing, digital television and the Internet have become a tool of enslavement, people are experiencing information overload and psychological shock due to rapid changes. Technologies of economic warfare are used as tools for influencing public consciousness, actively replenished with high humanitarian technologies, including cognitive distortions of consciousness and information technologies of influence affecting elements of worldview, consciousness and subconsciousness. Further advanced development of Western civilization seems doubtful due to the prevalence of deformation of moral and family values, egoism and satiety with comfort in the mass consciousness of the population of Western civilization.
Author: E. N. Korneeva
Institution: Financial University
Language: English
Topic: Media Influence and Politics
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4407103503