Media and Information Literacy as a Means of Deviations Prevention in State and Municipal Service
https://doi.org/10.21453/2311-3065-2025-13-1-154-165
Abstract
The study is dedicated to the deviations of political and administrative elites in the system of state and municipal service. The author has found that the fight against the deviation of “corruption consciousness” at the elite level is largely formal and nominal, while media and information tools are objectively underused. Despite the public demand for a consistent anticorruption policy, its implementation, in the author’s opinion, is complicated by the lack of conditions and motivation of employees outside the corruption component. The author sees a solution to the problem in the development of media and information literacy of state and municipal employees responsible for ensuring the openness of government, national policy in the field of education, culture, information and the media. Media literacy is considered in this regard as a factor in the formation of value attitudes and the fight against corruption deviations, which is partly confirmed by the data of surveys of civil servants.
About the Author
K. V. Stepanov
Southern Federal University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Stepanov Konstantin Vladimirovich – CandSc (Law), associate professor, Head of the Department of Criminal Procedure and Forensic Science
344006, Rostov-on-Don, Bolshaya Sadovaya st., 105/42
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Stepanov K.V. Media and Information Literacy as a Means of Deviations Prevention in State and Municipal Service. Communicology. 2025;13(1):154-165. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21453/2311-3065-2025-13-1-154-165
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