Mediatization of international conflicts and crises in digital reality: mediageographical perspective

The article introduces a novel mediageographical approach to the study of international conflicts and crises, emphasizing the analysis of mental landscapes across countries worldwide. The author proposes a three-dimensional spatial model of analysis: the physical, media, and mental spaces of conflict are examined in their interrelations and mutual influences within a spatiotemporal coordinate system. The mediageographical toolkit incorporates methods and technologies from political geography, media studies, and international relations theory, enabling the analysis of interconnections between media, geographical, and political factors. The mediageographical dimension of international conflicts and crises allows for the study of the dynamics of audience media behavior in different regions of the world in relation to international events and phenomena and the identification of transformation vectors in mental landscapes. Application of the mediageographical approach in international political analysis opens research perspectives for identifying the directions of symbolic space construction and the formation of zones of influence during the implementation of foreign policy projects within the global information field.