We are pleased to announce that Dean of the Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Academician of the Russian Academy of Education, Professor Elena Vartanova has recorded a special video message extending her congratulations and best wishes for the upcoming New Year-2025!
On December 20, 2024 Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov MSU awarded a title of Honorary Professor to Shi-xu, a distinguished professor at Hangzhou Normal University, China. The Dean of the Faculty Professor Elena Vartanova presented him a diploma and expressed her appreciation for long-standing fruitful collaboration.
The Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University proceeds with Topical seminar meetings, a series of online seminars featuring well-known speakers, both Russian and international. The third Topical seminar in autumn semester 2024 is scheduled for December 19, 5 pm MSK. During the meeting, the speakers will discuss current issues related to inclusive environments, with a focus on the Pakistani and Russian contexts.
The opening episode unveils a significant research project titled Representation of social conflict in the digital media environment: Strategies, subjects, and potential risks. A research group from the Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University has been examining the complex interactions between media and social conflict for around three years since the project was supported by the Russian Science Foundation.
The second Topical seminar in autumn semester 2024 is scheduled for November 12, 3 pm MSK. During the meeting, the speakers will discuss current issues related to the government communication and public trust in Vietnam, and to the role of local media in building a dialogue between authorities and citizens, with a focus on the Russian context.
In 2024, the Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University held the 16th International Media Readings in Moscow ‘Mass Media and Communications-2024’. This year's theme was Digital Media Systems: Revisiting Past and Exploring Future. On October 24-25, the conference brought together over 100 media researchers from around the world, including China, India, Sweden, South Africa, Canada, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Armenia, Vietnam, and etc.
On October 19, 2024, the International Journalism and Communication Deans’ Conference and the Annual Meeting of the Union of Journalism Education of Chinese and Russian Universities took place at the Renmin University of China, Beijing.
In 2024, the third issue of World of Media. Journal of Russian Media and Journalism Studies brings together four original research papers on the issues related to the communicative turn in media systems theory media theory, social media discourse among Russian youth, infrastructure discourse in Indonesian media, and the importance of YouTube as a learning tool in higher education in UAE.
Professor of the Vietnam National University in Hanoi, Dr. Dinh Thi Thuy Hang spoke about the transformation of the Vietnamese media landscape in the digital age. Associate Professor at the Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University Sofia Steblovskaya shared the results of her research devoted to the analysis of memes as part of digital culture.
The Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University proceeds with Topical seminar meetings, a series of online seminars featuring well-known speakers, both Russian and international. The first Topical seminar in autumn semester 2024 is scheduled for October 1, 3 pm MSK. During the meeting, the speakers will discuss current issues related to the role of journalism in the digital age, with a focus on the Vietnamese context, and to the peculiarities of a new digital culture.