Ethno-Linguistic Processes in the National Media Space as a Condition of Public Safety

Draft law “On Media” No. 2693: new restrictions of freedom of media in Ukraine

RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism ◽

10.22363/2312-9220-2020-25-4-775-786 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 25 (4) ◽

pp. 775-786

Author(s):

Shuanat N. Kadyrova ◽

Alexander Fomin

Keyword(s):

Scientific Community ◽

Legal Regulation ◽

Main Task ◽

Radio Broadcasting ◽

Scientific Analysis ◽

Media Space ◽

National Media ◽

The Media ◽

Hybrid War ◽

Working Mechanisms

The analysis of the draft law On Media No. 2693, submitted for consideration by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in December 2019. The official reason for its development was the lack of working mechanisms to ensure information security and protection of the national media space of Ukraine in a hybrid war. The main task of our study is an attempt to determine the place of the bill in the reformed system of legal regulation of the media in Ukraine, from a position neutral to the process of the scientific community. (The following draft law On Misinformation, which is also under consideration by the Verkhovna Rada, speaks in favor of a systematic policy of reforms in the media sector of Ukraine). To this end, a detailed content analysis was conducted, which showed that the potentially ambiguous wording of the adopted document at the stage of its enforcement leaves the regulatory authorities free to interpret them depending on the interests of the parties, rather than on the letter of the law. The key to understanding the risks associated with its entry into force is the section on the National Television and Radio Broadcasting Council of Ukraine, which will have jurisdiction over all aspects of the country's media structures, including economic ones. Thus, the proposed material may be of interest and be considered as a contribution to the development of criteria for a comprehensive scientific analysis of the legislation governing media structures, while the need for the participation of the scientific community in the development of such documents and public discussion at the stage of their preparation is obvious.

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Stories of Siblinghood

Culture Unbound Journal of Current Cultural Research ◽

10.3384/cu.3374 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 137-159

Author(s):

Martin Johansson

Keyword(s):

Cultural Narratives ◽

Winter Olympics ◽

Media Space ◽

National Media

This article analyzes newspaper representations of Nordic neighboring countries at the 1994 winter Olympics. Held in Lillehammer, Norway, the games constituted an enormous sporting success for the Norwegians, while neighboring Finland and Sweden fared much worse, which led national media in all three countries to contemplate on the discrepancy. Focusing on the tension between national and macro-regional Nordic identities, this article argues that media neighbor-images did in fact not compromise the seemingly collision-bound norms of “national rivalry” and “Nordist friendship”. Instead, the two norms informed and enforced each other through the key concept of humor, which created a safe media space for an Olympic dramaturgy of “siblinghood” to play out in. The analysis complements previous research on Nordic identity through highlighting the importance of emotion, popular cultural narratives, and intra-national neighbor relations for the construction of Nordicness.

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Information causes – triggers and resonant discourses of the national media space: possibilities of sociological analysis

Journal of the Belarusian State University. Sociology ◽

10.33581/2521-6821-2020-3-111-119 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 111-119

Author(s):

Alexander M. Belski

Keyword(s):

Social Activity ◽

Information Resources ◽

Sociological Analysis ◽

Modern Media ◽

Media Space ◽

National Media ◽

National Information ◽

Trigger Events

The article indicates the relevance of the study of conditionally neutral informational triggers in the context of the discussions they produce in the modern media space. The authorʼs methodology of highlighting resonant discourses of the countryʼs leading information resources in the context of actual trigger events of the national information field is demonstrated in order to analyse their interpretive environment for the formation of semantic meanings, distorting the meaning of the original informational occasion and provoking destructive social activity. Based on the presented case, proposals are made for correcting the direction of conflict discourses.

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