journalism

On May 28-29, the Laboratory of Historical, Social, and Cultural Anthropology (LISKA) held the "Spatial-Magical Aspects of Culture" (SMAC) seminar in Saratov, with the support of the Saratov Ministry of Social and Cultural Affairs, as well as the Faculty of History and the Faculty of Philology and Journalism of Saratov State University. "The Fifth Pyrrhic Readings" were held in Saratov.

On May 23-24, 2007, the Faculty of Philology and Journalism of Saratov State University hosted the Second International Scientific Conference “Changing Russia – Changing Literature: Artistic Experience of the 20th – Early 21st Centuries,” organized by the Department of Russian Literature of the 20th Century and dedicated to the 90th anniversary of humanities education at Saratov University.

All-Russian Conference of Young Scholars "Philology and Journalism at the Beginning of the 21st Century"

The name of A.M. Fedorov – prolific author, successful playwright, talented translator and poet – was quite popular in pre-revolutionary Russia. Throughout his literary career, A.M. Fedorov also worked as a journalist. Since 1899, he was a permanent correspondent of the Odesskiye Novosti magazine, where he happened to work on different issues in various genres, from short notes to reviews and feuilletons.

Thе article examines a two-pronged problem: the need to develop fundamental documents on the Russian media’s observance of humanistic principles, when preparing materials about childhood, as well as the lack of a professional journalistic school within which such approaches are formed and supported.

The article characterizes a modern reader of a news website which allows anyone to leave comments or post their own text.

The article emphasizes how the participation in Russkoye Slovo impacted the writer’s creative personality, mindset, spiritual and moral as well as aesthetic notions being formed. The writer was in the center of the literary events of the 1860s and he held responsible posts at the editorial board.

M. Prishvin’s sketches from the journal Zavety (Testaments) are republished in fragments containing the reception of the First Balkan war (1912). They in a resourceful and journalistic manner re-create the discussion of the «Slavic issue» actualized by the war in different spheres of the Russian society. It is evident that Prishvin’s images and evaluations sound geopolitically up-to-date.

The article considers the interaction of electronic mass media of Chuvash Republic with social networks. The authors identify the features of such integration of the state and commercial broadcasters, analyze the contents of the most successful mass media of the region, evaluate the editorial boards’ policies towards managing the activities promoting their mass media in social networks.

At the turn of the century in their journalistic works Ch. Aitmatov and V. Rasputin reflect on historiosophic issues, identify challenges the humanity faces on the eve of the millennium, look for ways out of the anthropological crisis. In the article the viewpoints of the two writers with the ‘universal points of view’ are compared, and the main motives of their journalistic heritage are singled out.