Journalism section meeting held as part of Lomonosov Readings conference
27.04.2021
Comprehensive spring programme of the conferences provides numerous opportunities for exchanging research experience and further enriching academic dialogue. Lomonosov Readings conference run from April 20 to April 29, with the Journalism section meeting held on April 27.
This year the vast majority of sections of the annual academic conference operated in online, the Journalism section being no exception. Given the significant number of those willing to participate, this meeting was conducted via Zoom for safety grounds. The event featured five presentations by Faculty's researchers.
Professor Elena Vartanova and Doctor Olga Smirnova presented their research works, carried out as part of the development programme of MSU Preservation of World Cultural and Historical Heritage school. Presentation by Elena Vartanova was focused on digitalization processes and media systems' structure changes in the context of increasing dominance of digital platforms. Professor Vartanova raised a series of questions concerning the changing balance between content production and content mediation, with a special emphasis on the role of channels, which, ceasing to be mere mediation tools, have enough leverage to impose conditions on the content producers.
Presentation by Olga Smirnova was dedicated to the conflict analysis of mass media content and examined different roles of media in communicating, aggravating, spurring and resolving the conflicts, as well as provided a content analysis of conflict-themed articles of some of the most widely-read Russian media. The researcher presented a newly-developed methodology and shared preliminary results, which allowed to conclude that the semantic field of conflict is extremely diverse; however, territorial and political conflicts are the most widely-covered aspects of this theme.
This was followed up by the presentation by Doctor Maxim Babyuk, who studied domestic media outlets from the historical perspective, focusing his research on institutional-legal and management aspects of Soviet news agencies of the 20's. Ivan Aslanov presented a comprehensive report on framing effect in media texts featuring the topic of mental health, where he studied the cognitive function of metaphor.
The meeting was completed with a joint report by Doctor Andrey Virkovsky and Doctor Mikhail Makeenko, who looked into career histories of young qualified journalists in Moscow.
Presentations by speakers were followed by the questions, which allowed to view the problems from different angles, providing new research perspectives. The Faculty of Journalism thanks all the participants for making this productive academic discussion possible!
Comprehensive spring programme of the conferences provides numerous opportunities for exchanging research experience and further enriching academic dialogue. Lomonosov Readings conference run from April 20 to April 29, with the Journalism section meeting held on April 27.This year the vast majority of sections of the annual academic conference operated in online, the Journalism section being no exception. Given the significant number of those willing to participate, this meeting was conducted via Zoom for safety grounds. The event featured five presentations by Faculty's researchers.
Professor Elena Vartanova and Doctor Olga Smirnova presented their research works, carried out as part of the development programme of MSU Preservation of World Cultural and Historical Heritage school. Presentation by Elena Vartanova was focused on digitalization processes and media systems' structure changes in the context of increasing dominance of digital platforms. Professor Vartanova raised a series of questions concerning the changing balance between content production and content mediation, with a special emphasis on the role of channels, which, ceasing to be mere mediation tools, have enough leverage to impose conditions on the content producers.
Presentation by Olga Smirnova was dedicated to the conflict analysis of mass media content and examined different roles of media in communicating, aggravating, spurring and resolving the conflicts, as well as provided a content analysis of conflict-themed articles of some of the most widely-read Russian media. The researcher presented a newly-developed methodology and shared preliminary results, which allowed to conclude that the semantic field of conflict is extremely diverse; however, territorial and political conflicts are the most widely-covered aspects of this theme.
This was followed up by the presentation by Doctor Maxim Babyuk, who studied domestic media outlets from the historical perspective, focusing his research on institutional-legal and management aspects of Soviet news agencies of the 20's. Ivan Aslanov presented a comprehensive report on framing effect in media texts featuring the topic of mental health, where he studied the cognitive function of metaphor.
The meeting was completed with a joint report by Doctor Andrey Virkovsky and Doctor Mikhail Makeenko, who looked into career histories of young qualified journalists in Moscow.
Presentations by speakers were followed by the questions, which allowed to view the problems from different angles, providing new research perspectives. The Faculty of Journalism thanks all the participants for making this productive academic discussion possible!