Haters" in the Russian Segment of the Internet

The author believes that his article is relevant because it explores new forms of non-political radical ideas on the Russian Internet. The object of the research is the main manifestations of non-political activity of a destructive orientation. Its aim is to classify and determine the degree of social harmfulness of this activity. The author employed methods of both empirical and theoretical analysis. The theoretical methods were category-criterion analysis, critical discourse analysis, typological analysis, complex-procedural and comparative psychological methods. The empirical methods were the collection of material using general and special search programs and an information retrieval thesaurus, and the analysis of textual material and products of communication. First, the author developed a set of criteria for identifying non-political radical Internet communities. As a result, the author received a large array of empirical information, which he then ordered and conceptualized according to previously developed criteria. The novelty of the research consists in the development of criteria and a classification of the scantily explored forms of non-political radicalism in the Russian Internet. The author developed a category-criterion apparatus for identifying Internet communities that can be classified as "hate groups", identified the addresses of their Internet distribution, and, finally, determined the scale of social harmfulness of such communities. The author hopes that the materials of the article may be of interest to social scientists and governmental managers, as well as to specialists in security problems.

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