Freedom of the media - freedom through media?
In: Global journalism research series Vol. 4
In: Crossmedia and quality journalism
In: cuq
In: Global journalism research series Vol. 4
In: Crossmedia and quality journalism
In: cuq
The article discusses the impact of mass communication on the formation of public opinion on migration movements in Europe in 2018 among the citizens of the host country. A number of patterns of shaping society's attitude towards migrants were identified, as well as the reasons for the incitement of hatred towards immigrants. The content of articles of American and European news media was also analyzed. Thematic areas in which the media present migrants are most often identified. This choice of editions is explained by the purpose of identifying the general trends and differences between information resources, the target audience of which is the population of different countries – the USA, the UK and European countries in general. The media reflects the processes taking place within and around society. Results contain the context in which a journalist poses a particular problem of great importance for the subsequent perception. The humanistic orientation of European Union policy has become the basis for the creation of programs that provide benefits for refugees, contribute to improving their living conditions, and facilitate the process of crossing borders to save them from the above factors. This is why we have taken into account the period of the 2018 migration crisis. The analysis revealed thematic areas in which the mass media most often present displaced people, which testifies to the general concepts in which society views the problem of migration adaptation. Mass media is not only an indicator of the society response to immigration movements, but also shapes consumers` opinion on information regarding migrants.
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Regional media is an important segment of the socio-communicative model of the information space of Ukraine, which clearly identifies the vectors of ethnically and culturally identified journalism, works hard to preserve historical memory, national consciousness and civic activity of society. Their study is especially relevant in the period of modern socio-political changes associated with the development of democratization, decentralization and local self-government, which will make new adjustments to the typology, content and functions of local media. Currently, there is a growing scholars interest to the problems of regional journalism, but the culturological and axiological aspects of their study are still insufficiently investigated. This explains the choice of the research object, which were the regional media reviews, reflected in the memoirs and publicistics of the famous Ukrainian writer and public figure Oles Honchar. Recourse to such methods as content analysis, historical, systemic, biographical, axiological, statistical, made it possible to carry out a multifaceted interpretation of journalistic assessments by the writer of the spiritual potential of regional and district newspapers, through which to cover certain periods of Ukrainian journalism development of the twentieth century and reveal the writer's personal involvement in its history. Oles Honchar cooperation with the mass media lasted for more than sixty years. It was widely disclosed in his diary entries, epistolary and journalistic works of various genres. The writer's connections with the regional press are reproduced in chronological order, starting from the 1930s, the journalistic activity of young Oles Honchar in district and regional newspapers in Poltava and Kharkiv regions and ending with observations of an already experienced publicist and master of the word on the activities of local media during the years of independent Ukraine. An analysis of the congratulation-letters texts addressed to local newspapers and magazines offices ...
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Introduction. This article explains the peculiarities of the content constructing of the political media discourse of the Russian Internet resource sputniknews.com for September 2016, represented by English-language political media texts about events in Ukraine.Purpose. The purpose of the article is to disclose peculiarities of the content constructing of the political media discourse in question via the analysis of the cognitive plane of its objectification.Results. The article holds that the political media discourse is a complex phenomenon that has three planes of its objectification: cognitive, pragmatic, and communicative (linguistic). The analysis of its cognitive plane accomplished as the analysis of the content of its political media texts enables to disclose peculiarities of their content constructing. The article proves that this constructing is typically based on a purposeful manipulation of information on behalf of the message author (sender). It is done in different ways and by various means – by faking facts, by their partial distortion, by a shift within the concept semantic field, by the concept simplification, and by stereotyping. The very form of facts presentation also contributes to information distortion – it can be statement, repetition, fragmentation, breaking news, sensation, and non-alternativity (of information source or of view point). Such а content constructing, typical of the analyzed political media texts, enables the message author (sender) to present concrete facts, political events and the very social reality in the right light, suggesting or imposing on the message recipient a certain (necessary) understanding of what is perceived.Originality. Originality of this article is provided by a complex approach to the analysis of the political media discourse. The article contributes to the discourse analysis, in particular to the studies of its cognitive and linguistic-cognitive characteristics.The perspective of the problem under discussion can be seen in the analysis of interrelated pragmatic and communicative (linguistic) planes of the political media discourse objectification.Conclusion. Thus, according to the obtained data, the content constructing of English-language political media texts about events in Ukraine, which represent the political media discourse of the Russian Internet resource sputniknews.com for September 2016, is typically based on manipulation of information. Accomplished by the message author (sender) in different ways and by various means, manipulation of information results in various interpretations of concrete facts, political events and social reality with the purpose to suggest or impose on the message recipient a certain (necessary) understanding, which is, in fact, a manipulative impact on public consciousness.
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We have researched media texts of the anti-terrorist military action participants. There are war diaries, memoirs, blogs, publications of veterans and separately journalistic interviews with them. We used comparative, analytical, synthesis and induction method. Communicative specificity of these texts was concretized. Literary works of anti-terrorist military action participants are amateur and new for Ukrainian information space. They were built on the autobiographical basis. This kind of memoir genre is a valuable source for learning both behavior of some person in concrete conditions and sociopolitical order of some people in determined history period. The authors demonstrate their military personal experience through detailing of war events. Memoir writers explain their motivation of joining military platoons and demonstrate a strong patriotic position. Veterans recite their own history in a chronological order with adding images of comrades, commanders, technique units, tranches, weapon, elements of everyday life to their telling. Also combatants say about exploits of their fighting brothers. The prominent feature of memoirs is a contrast between front realities and civilian life. Military action participants have a colloquial style with military slang and terms. With a great sadness Ukrainian defenders describe a way of life of dead friends. But military texts have a lot of funny stories, jokes, positive notices and interesting cheerful details of communication between soldiers. The analysis of media texts allowed to find out problem zones of veterans' life. There is need for civil and professional adaptation, socialization, saving a memory about heroes. The authors try to pay attention of wide society to these problems and motivate to its solution. The results can be used in the course of the journalism specialty for the further scientific researches.
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The article analyzes lexical items, the augmentatives, that are used in the language of modern mass media; it is defined new lexical items and expansion of the sphere of their functioning in media materials on social and political and other subjects; it is defined the functional and stylistic role of augmentatives in the language of the press and negative assessment in publicistic materials. The descriptive research method and observation method were used as main in studying augmentatives in the language of Ukrainian periodicals of the XXI century. At different stages of the research the method of functional analysis was used to determine the stylistic load of lexical items. It is concluded that in the language of Ukrainian periodicals, the augmentatives are rarely used, unlike diminutives. They most often have a negative assessment function, representing neglect, condemnation, contempt, etc. Sometimes, with the help of augmentatives, they show the size of the object, phenomenon, or a living being that the author writes about. In general, the augmentatives give some expressive coloring to the text.
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The article deals with the analysis of historiographic scientific researches on origin and development of national printed mass media.Ukraineis presented as a country with long-standing traditions of publishing, a country where there are a lot of scientists studying the history of Ukrainian periodicals. Informatization of human activities becomes more and more profound, thorough and complete, and this fact requires constant analysis, assessment of printed products functioning from the point of view of their role in information, scientific, educational and cultural spiritual provision of society. The peculiarity of this revolutionary change forUkrainelies in the fact, that political and social-political changes, connected with obtaining independence and establishing statehood byUkraine: complex and system-defined historiography of publishing in post-industrial period is scantily explored. The undertaken historiographic investigation shows, that scientists were concentrated on searching rather special components of a publication. The author analyzed the existing periodization of mass media development depending on different factors and generalized, systematized and added the results of the existing investigations. The suggested periodization is, on the one hand, the continuation of scientists' analytics, who researched shorter time periods, and, on the other hand, the investigations are supplemented with the analysis of the influence of social and economic factors. Besides, the majority of scientists investigate only their regions, often keeping to their ideological bias, that brings contradictions even in such, at first sight, simple questions as: where the first Ukrainian newspaper was published. The deficiency of unified methodological approach to problems under investigation is clarified. It is proved, that the situation in publishing depends on the pluralism, freedom of speech, well-developed party structures. Complex investigation requires not only knowledge in history, but also in economics, management, ...
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The article identifies some approaches to identifying the concepts of media and legal information. Some classifications of mass media and their immanent elements are considered. The concept of information and its qualifying legal features are defined. The main Laws of Ukraine concerning information are highlighted. Separate normative-legal laws of Ukraine on information and various forms of information are singled out. Categories of legal, public information and misinformation are considered. The key Law of Ukraine on information dated October 2, 1992 № 2657-XII has been determined. It is investigated, that the main source of legal information is the Constitution of Ukraine in accordance to the Law of Ukraine "On Information". It is proved, that information can exist in an ideal and material form and be the object of commodity relations. Attention is drawn to the Law of Ukraine "On Electronic Documents and Electronic Document Management". It is proved, that in the era of using information and communication technologies, the implementation of e-government makes it possible to operate in an information society. Sources for media information have been identified - state, confidential and anonymous. Attention is drawn to the access of the media to confidential information, to data that are not disclosed or published only by court decision. An example is given of the possibility of disseminating public or private information about a person. Attention is drawn to the need to verify anonymous information. In conclusion, it is emphasized, that the media in Ukraine are trying to follow in the footsteps of the latest information and communication technologies. The use of constitutional and legal acts is a vital necessary condition for building civil society, guaranteeing the constitutionality of democracy, freedom of access of the media to primary sources of information.
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The article is devoted to the actual problem of print media reforming, in particular the definition of its perspectives and trends. The article highlights re-registration processes results of Ukrainian state and public print media and publication editions. Consequently, enforcement of the Bill's provisions of Ukraine "On the Reform of State and Public Print Media" was considered. The process of print media denationalization has been investigated and analyzed, factors that hinder and impede print publications reformation, declared as reform objects are found out. In particular, it is noted that there is a reluctance to carry out re-registration by labor collectives, in which exists the fear of a future existence without founders' financial support, provided by the state or local budget, as well as conflicts that arise on the basis of property/premises handover by owners to editorials that were previously there. It is found that one of the main problems is the careless and irresponsible work of "Ukrposhta" postal workers, in particular postman, namely delivery delay of some editions for at least two weeks, or even, for several months, slows down the success of Ukrainian print media. The statistical analysis of editions reforming has been carried out during the two years of reform — from January 1, 2016 to December 18, 2018. The leaders of denationalization, who have re-registered more than 50 percent of the reform objects specified in the "List of Reform Objects" approved by the State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting, have been identified. The article presents results in the chronological order, that were presented by the State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting, the Center for Democracy and Rule of Law, and in particular organizations that monitor print media reform results. The latest results are presented as at 18 December, 2018 — two weeks before the reform formal completion — January 1, 2019.
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Purpose of the study. The emergence of a new type of discourse, called media discourse. Мedia discourse is conditioned by the tendencies of internationalization and globalization, the development of modern telecommunication technologies in the world community. The problem of media discourse was widely discussed by Western scholars, in particular J. Orwell, T. van Dyke, and the interest in studying it and today does not diminish. Research methodology. In the proposed article a systematic and analytical approaches have been used, elements of systemic and structural research have been used to determine goals and strategies, and comparative and problem-chronological methods have been used to solve problems . The scientific novelty of the results consists in approbation of the scientific problem, namely, in the comprehensive research of journalistic investigation in contemporary media discourse, ground analysis of the direct journalistic investigation as one of the newest genres of modern convergent journalism. The practical task demonstrates the effectiveness of combating journalists in a democratic society. Conclusions. A journalistic investigation describes the entire spectrum of a systemic problem, rather than a single incident involving one person, reveals complex social issues, corruption, violations of the law, and abuse of power and information, previously unknown to the public for various reasons, or which are deliberately concealed. Considering the journalistic investigation as a method of journalist's work, it can be described as a synthetic one that combines all methods of collecting information by a journalist (observation, interviewing, document analysis), based on work with numerous sources, thorough analysis, comparisons, searches for contradictions and concealed information in order to make information public,it is of public interest. In the last decade, a network of investigative journalism centers and investigative journalists in the national and regional mass media, which forms professional ...
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The purpose of the article is to identify specific features of the modern Ukrainian superhero as a mechanism of cultural reflection. Recently, comics have become popular in Ukraine, and on the shelves of bookstores every year, there are more and more interesting Ukrainian superhero comic stories that are closely intertwined with socio-cultural and political contexts. However, the image of a modern Ukrainian superhero remains an unexplored phenomenon. The research methodology includes a historical method for systematizing the available material, a method of analysis used to compare national and foreign publications and projects where superheroes operate, and a synthesis method for summarizing the results of the research. The scientific novelty is to identify the main features of the modern Ukrainian superhero and its representation in the mass media as a tool for self-analysis of Ukrainian society. Conclusions. Modern Ukrainian comic culture produces the latest images that emerge from the circumstances of Ukrainian society (the Revolution of Dignity, the war in the East of Ukraine). The Ukrainian superhero, following the traditions of the world classics, has superhuman capabilities and special character traits. Through mass media promoting the image of a superhero, national values are actively promoted in Ukraine. ; The purpose of the article is to identify specific features of the modern Ukrainian superhero as a mechanism of cultural reflection. Recently, comics have become popular in Ukraine, and on the shelves of bookstores every year, there are more and more interesting Ukrainian superhero comic stories that are closely intertwined with socio-cultural and political contexts. However, the image of a modern Ukrainian superhero remains an unexplored phenomenon. The research methodology includes a historical method for systematizing the available material, a method of analysis used to compare national and foreign publications and projects where superheroes operate, and a synthesis method for summarizing the results of the research. The scientific novelty is to identify the main features of the modern Ukrainian superhero and its representation in the mass media as a tool for self-analysis of Ukrainian society. Conclusions. Modern Ukrainian comic culture produces the latest images that emerge from the circumstances of Ukrainian society (the Revolution of Dignity, the war in the East of Ukraine). The Ukrainian superhero, following the traditions of the world classics, has superhuman capabilities and special character traits. Through mass media promoting the image of a superhero, national values are actively promoted in Ukraine.
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The purpose of the article is to identify specific features of the modern Ukrainian superhero as a mechanism of cultural reflection. Recently, comics have become popular in Ukraine, and on the shelves of bookstores every year, there are more and more interesting Ukrainian superhero comic stories that are closely intertwined with socio-cultural and political contexts. However, the image of a modern Ukrainian superhero remains an unexplored phenomenon. The research methodology includes a historical method for systematizing the available material, a method of analysis used to compare national and foreign publications and projects where superheroes operate, and a synthesis method for summarizing the results of the research. The scientific novelty is to identify the main features of the modern Ukrainian superhero and its representation in the mass media as a tool for self-analysis of Ukrainian society. Conclusions. Modern Ukrainian comic culture produces the latest images that emerge from the circumstances of Ukrainian society (the Revolution of Dignity, the war in the East of Ukraine). The Ukrainian superhero, following the traditions of the world classics, has superhuman capabilities and special character traits. Through mass media promoting the image of a superhero, national values are actively promoted in Ukraine. ; The purpose of the article is to identify specific features of the modern Ukrainian superhero as a mechanism of cultural reflection. Recently, comics have become popular in Ukraine, and on the shelves of bookstores every year, there are more and more interesting Ukrainian superhero comic stories that are closely intertwined with socio-cultural and political contexts. However, the image of a modern Ukrainian superhero remains an unexplored phenomenon. The research methodology includes a historical method for systematizing the available material, a method of analysis used to compare national and foreign publications and projects where superheroes operate, and a synthesis method for summarizing the results of the research. The scientific novelty is to identify the main features of the modern Ukrainian superhero and its representation in the mass media as a tool for self-analysis of Ukrainian society. Conclusions. Modern Ukrainian comic culture produces the latest images that emerge from the circumstances of Ukrainian society (the Revolution of Dignity, the war in the East of Ukraine). The Ukrainian superhero, following the traditions of the world classics, has superhuman capabilities and special character traits. Through mass media promoting the image of a superhero, national values are actively promoted in Ukraine.
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