Graffiti as a Form of Public Opinion Expression

This article deals with the problem of the functioning of urban space as a communicative platform for the expression of public opinion. The aim of the work is to analyze the culture of graffiti, which draws attention to modern social processes, and the main task is to assess the semantic and sociocultural content of graffiti and their influence on the formation of public consciousness. Based on the concept of the French researcher Roland Barthes, the authors analyzed the location “Bukashkin’s Yard” in Yekaterinburg. The article summarizes the ideas about social processes in cultural, sociological and philosophical terms.