Description of journal sections

Section Editor Section Summary
Media and Education Morozova Anna Anatolyevna

The department accepts for publication articles in the following thematic areas:

1) media literacy and media education for various categories of the population;

2) new media and media education: opportunities for use and risks (social networks, instant messengers, unique and new online projects);

3) media educational activities in preschool, school, secondary special, university and further education (any disciplines related to the field of mass media, directing, photo, film, etc.);

4) features of the work of children's and youth editorial offices;

5) the media educational aspect in the science and practice of related specialties: cultural studies, sociology, psychology, literature, linguistics, information security, etc.
Theory of Journalism and the Issues of Media Research Methods Antropova Vera Vladimirovna

The department contains articles whose topics are related to:

1) the interpretation of journalism and the determination of its essential properties in the context of the modern Russian media system, as well as other national media systems;

2) new concepts of journalism, borrowed, including from related humanitarian fields;

3) the development of its conceptual apparatus;

4) a description of the structural, functional, typological aspects of journalism;

5) the presentation of various methodological approaches, including interdisciplinary ones, which allow for media research.
Modern Literature, Criticism, Journalism in the Structure of Mass Communication Fedorov Vasily Viktorovich

The department hosts articles whose subjects are related to studies of modern literature, criticism and journalism as forms of mass communication, their publicity and media. The following areas are expected:

1) modern literary and journalistic process;

2) discourse of criticism of various formats (traditional journal criticism, network and online criticism, etc.);

3) non-fiction literature;

4) artistic and journalistic journalism;

5) the intermediaism of literary and critical discourse (media art, video poetry and video art, performativity, social and artistic activism, design).
Game Forms of Communication Selyutin Alexander Anatolyevich

The department accepts articles whose topics are related to the study of the game as a form of communication, namely:

1) the gamification of the communicative process,

2) the communicative potential of the game,

3) the game practices of media discourse,

4) game journalism (gaming).

The section is intended to summarize the experience of the study of linguistics, journalism and media communications in the field of the game potential of words, language, speech, discourse, communication (mass and media).
Speech Models and Strategies of Media Discourse Panova Elena Yurievna

The department contains articles whose subject and problems are related to:

1) studies of the linguistic specificity of modern media text;

2) a study of current discursive practices of the media text;

3) analysis of rhetorical models and modifications of the media discourse;

4) the study of speech strategies for organizing a media text;

5) coverage of issues of stylistic trends in media text and individual-style in the synchronous and diachronic aspects.
History of Journalism Udler Irina Mikhailovna The section publishes articles on the emergence, stages of development of domestic and foreign journalism in its historical, cultural and national contexts, on national journalism models, means of influencing public opinion, historical development of various types of publications, genres, about editors, authors (study of personalities), communications literature and journalism in different historical eras.
Communication Studies: Ad-vertising, PR, Branding, Media Kiuru Konstantin Valerevich

The department hosts articles on topics related to research in the theory and practice of public relations, advertising, imageology, branding, and media communications. The problems of articles can be related to:

1) research of technologies and tools of PR, advertising, branding;

2) the study of advertising and PR-text, its functioning in media of various types;

3) research of various types of content in media communications;

4) education issues in the field of advertising, PR and media communications;

5) research in the field of psychology and sociology of media.
Cultural Media Vyrovtseva Ekaterina Vladimirovna The department contains articles devoted to the study of media reality as a channel for the formation and dissemination of a value system, communication culture, and speech behavior. Theme of publications: culture in the concept of media; mediality in the cultural aspect; media production and media reflection as cultural problems; information consumption culture; the categories of "post-truth", "post-science", "post-culture", "post-humanism" in the modern media space; the phenomenon of intertextuality and the problem of interpreting cultural codes in modern media text; intercultural communications in modern media.
Economics, Politics, Law and the Media Safonov Andrey Vladimirovich

The section contains articles devoted to the study of media content, thematically related to the fields of economics, politics, law, as well as affecting the functional and legal aspects of the media and other media entities. The topics of the articles may relate to:

1) the content and structural-stylistic features of the media texts of economic, political and legal issues;

2) aspects of the relationship of the media with the subjects of politics and economic activity;

3) the role and functions of the media in the space of politics, economics and jurisprudence;

4) innovations and problem areas in the field of legal regulation.
Public Sphere in the Aspect of Mass Communications Raspopova Svetlana Sergeevna The department hosts articles on the subject of research on public communications and the public sphere. The problems of the articles may be related to revealing the role of mass media as the main constructor of the public sphere; new types of media and new types of communications-media communications; social media genres and formats; various tactics of producing public discourse, new actors in the public sphere, as well as approaches to organizing feedback in public communications.
Professional Culture of Journalist Zhuravleva Anna Arkadevna

the department accepts articles considering the following topics and issues:

1) the formation and development of a professional culture of journalists;

2) professional ethics of a journalist in the Russian and foreign media space (historical, legal, comparative, and other aspects);

3) the status of a journalist on the Internet: legal, ethical aspects;

4) analysis and assessment of conflict situations arising as a result of violation by journalists of ethical standards;

5) the creation of media content: the boundaries of creative freedom in modern journalism;

6) convergent journalism and ethical standards;

7) copyright issues for journalists;

8) the role of media laws in the deontology of journalism;

9) journalist and advertising: regulatory issues.