Creative activity of a journalist in the conditions of media convergence

Authors

  • Olga V. Luschinskaya Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

Keywords:

creative activity of a journalist, creative approach, discursive personality of a journalist, convergent editorial office, media discourse, media convergence, media specialist, mass media

Abstract

The article contains analytical review of the literature in which the issues of creative activity of a journalist are researched and described taking into consideration the processes of media convergence. It is mentioned that today work of a journalist has its own peculiarities concerning texts production as well as interaction with the audiences. A journalist is represented as a discursive personality, the main characteristics of this personality are defined. The article states, that in the space of the internet environment journalists have more opportunities to demonstrate their creative potential and solve problems more effectively and faster due to such characteristics of the internet as interactivity, openness, vertuality, and absence of space and time restrictions. It is stated that the development of informational technologies and their implementation in the professional sphere of journalism influenced the creative activity of a journalist: its planning, organization and optimization; search for new ways of work with information, its presentation and different ways of submission using new genres and formats of convergent journalism; appearance of new professions; changes both in the content of convergent media based on requests of the audience and in the ways of interaction with it.

Author Biography

  • Olga V. Luschinskaya, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

    PhD (pedagogics), docent; head of the department of international journalism, faculty of journalism.

References

  1. Plotnikova SN. A speaker/writer as a linguistic, communicative and discursive personality. Vestnik Nizhnevartovskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta [Internet]. 2008 [cited 2020 March 25];4. Available from: https://vestnik.nvsu.ru/arhiv/24/58. pdf. Russian.
  2. Malysheva ЕG. Discursive linguistic personality and idiostyle of the journalist: methodology and research methods (based on the texts of Omsk journalist Sergey Shkaev). Political linguistics. 2017;6:39–44. Russian.
  3. Selyutin АА. [Media personality: to the question of the formulation of the concept]. In: Malyshev AA, editor. Yazyk v koordinatakh massmedia. Materialy II Mezhdunarodnoi nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii; 2–6 iyulya 2017 g.; Sankt-Peterburg, Rossiya. Medialingvistika. Vypusk 6 [Language in the coordinates of mass media. Materials of the II International scientific conference; 2017 July 2–6; Saint Petersburg, Russia. Media linguistics. Issue 6]. Saint Petersburg: Saint Petersburg State University, Institute «School of Journalism and Mass Communications»; 2017. p. 46–48. Russian.
  4. Selyutin АА. [Communicative ability of a contemporary media personality: the formation of linguistic responsibility skills]. In: Zagidullina MV, editor. Mentalʼno-yazykovye transformatsii russkoi lingvokulʼturnoi lichnosti: poisk identichnosti v mediatizirovannom obshchestve [Mental-linguistic transformations of the Russian linguistic and cultural personality: the search for identity in a mediated society]. Chelyabinsk: Publishing office Chelyabinsk State University; 2018. p. 300–317. Russian.
  5. Vyrkovskii АV. Upravlenie protsessami sozdaniya zhurnalistskogo teksta v pechatnykh i onlainovykh SMI [Management of the processes of creating journalistic text in print and online media] [dissertation]. Moscow: Lomonosov Moscow State University; 2017. p. 379. Russian
  6. Ivchenkov VI. New models of communication and stylistic priorities of contemporary media discourse. Medialinguistics. 2019;6(1):135–144. DOI: 10.21638/spbu22.2019.110. Russian.
  7. Bastron АА, Zheludeva HV. Media convergence in journalism: from classic to universality. RGGU Bulletin. Series: Records Management and Archival Studies. Computer Science. Data Protection and Information Security. 2016;3(5):33–45. Russian.
  8. Tertchnyiy АА. About the correlation of technology and creativity in contemporary journalism. Vestnik Moskovskogo universiteta. Seriya 10. Zhurnalistika. 2013;6:78–89. Russian.
  9. Ivchenkov VI. Medyjarytoryka: rytarychnyja asnovy zhurnalistyki, lingvistyka publicystychnaga tjekstu, dyskursny analiz srodkaw masavaj infarmacyi [Media rhetoric: rhetorical basics of journalism, linguistics of publisistic texts, discourse analysis of mass media]. Minsk: Adukacyja i vyhavanne; 2009. 280 p. Belarusian.
  10. Kim МN. Osnovy teorii zhurnalistiki [The basics of journalism]. Saint Petersburg: Piter; 2013. 288 p. Russian.
  11. Melnik GS, Vinogradova КЕ, Liseev RP. Osnovy tvorcheskoi deyatelʼnosti zhurnalista [The basics of a journalist creative activity]. Saint Petersburg: Saint Petersburg State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications; 2013. 210 p. Russian.
  12. Kopylov ОV. Osobennosti tvorcheskoi deyatel‘nosti zhurnalista v usloviyakh mediakonvergentsii [Peculiarities of a journalist creative activity in the conditions of media convergence] [dissertation]. Barnaul: Ural State Technical University named after the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin; 2012. 185 p. Russian.
  13. Lukina ММ, editor. Internet-SMI. Teoriya i praktika [Internet media. Theory and practice]. Moscow: Aspekt Press; 2010. 348 p. Russian.
  14. Udalova ТV, Varda VА. A convergent editorial office as a new type of editorial office for mass media of Amur region. Vestnik of Amur State University. Series: Humanitarian Sciences. 2012;56:17–24. Russian.
  15. Pak ЕМ. Zhanroobrazovanie v setevykh SMI: tvorcheskie i tekhnologicheskie faktory [Genre formation in network media: creative and technological factors] [abstract of dissertation]. Saint Petersburg: Saint Petersburg State University; 2014. 24 p. Russian.

Downloads

Published

2020-11-05

Issue

No. 2 (2020): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Journalism and Pedagogics

Section

Contemporary Media Communications and Communication Technologies

License

The authors who are published in this journal agree to the following:

  1. The authors retain copyright on the work and provide the journal with the right of first publication of the work on condition of license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial. 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).
  2. The authors retain the right to enter into certain contractual agreements relating to the non-exclusive distribution of the published version of the work (e.g. post it on the institutional repository, publication in the book), with the reference to its original publication in this journal.
  3. The authors have the right to post their work on the Internet (e.g. on the institutional store or personal website) prior to and during the review process, conducted by the journal, as this may lead to a productive discussion and a large number of references to this work. (See The Effect of Open Access.)

How to Cite

[1]
Luschinskaya, .O.V. 2020. Creative activity of a journalist in the conditions of media convergence. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Journalism. 2 (Nov. 2020), 94–99.