Agenda-setting by politicized 
netizens of Russia (part 2)

This article examines agenda-setting by politicized netizens of Russia (a set of the most influential politicized communities on the social media platform VKontakte). The socio-political views of online communities — organized into factions and larger conglomerates — are not treated here merely as projections of "textbook" sociopolitical doctrines. The purpose of the study is to map a kind of semantic landscape formed by various ideas about the future of Russia, the most influential on the Web. This publication is a continuation of the previously published study and constitutes its second and final part. The first part studied the agenda of patriotic pro-presidential factions, as well as that of leftist, Stalinist, conspiracist, and some other online communities. The second part focuses on the agenda of nationalist, liberal, monarchist, and some other factions. The research involves mapping a large cluster of approximately 500 politicized online communities from which the most influential ones were identified using methods derived from the natural-scientific theory of self-organized criticality. These communities are capable of shaping the values, views, and behavior of their members. The analysis centers on the most widely disseminated posts and comments within these communities over the course of a year. Drawing on this material, the study reconstructs collective historical interpretations, political positions, and agenda peculiar to the factions. The outcome is a detailed map of the ideological landscape within the politicized segment of the social media platform. The findings presented here suggest that, despite sharp disagreements, there exists a certain consensus — a consensus among all or most factions on certain issues. And this consensus concerns agenda-setting — a vision of a desired future, which may be shared, at least in part, by different factions, even though their interpretations of history and contemporary realities differ considerably.