THE ARMENIAN MEDIA IN THE EPOCH OF SOCIAL NETWORKS - 2022

We conducted a survey in the period of December 2021 - January 2022 amongst the managers of 100 diverse media outlets in Armenia. Responses to our survey were received from the chief editors, deputy editors, directors, founders and managers of the news services of the media outlets from 74 online, 26 broadcast TV and radio, including 11 regional TV outlets.

With this representative sample of the media landscape from the above prisms our attempt was to find out:
• The problems faced at present by the mass media outlets and what these problems are overwhelmingly connected with;
• What are the criteria defined by media managers to differentiate quality media from diverse information platforms;
• How social networks affect the media and what are the reasons for making use of several social networks at the same time;
• What it means to say social network restriant. Is it needed? Is it possible to achieve?

Please, find the results of the survey below.