Visual approaches to the representation of information in Belarusian children’s magazines of the 21st century

Authors

  • Sviеtlana V. Kharytonоva Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliezhnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

Keywords:

children’s print media, approaches to information representation, illustration, visualisation of media text

Abstract

The specificity of the translation of visual images by means of media design in children’s print media in the 21st century is determined. Trends in the modification of visual approaches to the representation of information in Belarusian journals intended for preschoolers, junior, middle and senior schoolchildren are revealed. Based on the design analysis of illustrative solutions for children’s magazines, the main directions of illustration are determined. In the group of periodicals for preschoolers and younger schoolchildren, the simplified stencil and professional art directions were identified. In the media text for middle and high school students, the ways of arranging non-verbal components are represented by a fragmentary and text-centric approach. It has been established that a culturally specific base for educating children in the field of the artistic content of Belarusian art and their aesthetic education is being created by several specialised publications, giving way to mass print media broadcasting fragmentary and simplified stencil solutions for visualising media text.

Author Biography

  • Sviеtlana V. Kharytonоva, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliezhnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

    PhD (philology), docent; head of the department of periodical press and web journalism, faculty of journalism

References

  1. Rozin VM. Vizual’naya kul’tura i vospriyatie: kak chelovek vidit i ponimaet mir [Visual culture and perception: how a person sees and understands the world]. Moscow: Komkniga; 2006. 224 p. Russian.
  2. Gurtovaya EA. Vizual’naya kommunikatsiya [Visual communication]. Minsk: Belarusian State University; 2019. 99 p. Russian.
  3. Saleev VA, Ivashkevich OV. Esteticheskoe vospriyatie i detskaya fantaziya [Aesthetic perception and children’s fantasy]. Minsk: The National Institute of Education; 1999. 126 p. Russian.
  4. Tulupov VV. Gazeta: marketing, dizain, reklama. Novye tendentsii v izdanii gazet [Newspaper: marketing, design, advertising. New trends in newspaper publishing]. Voronezh: Kvarta; 2001. 313 p. Russian.
  5. Flerina EA. Esteticheskoe vospitanie doshkol’nika [Aesthetic education of a preschooler]. Shatskaya VN, editor. Moscow: Akademiya pedagogicheskikh nauk RSFSR; 1961. 334 p. Russian.
  6. Konashevich VM. O sebe i svoem dele: vospominaniya. Stat’i. Pis’ma [About myself and my business: memoirs. Articles. Letters]. Molok YuA, compiler. Moscow: Detskaya literatura; 1968. 495 p. Russian.
  7. Favorskii VA. Ob iskusstve, o knige, o gravyure [About art, about the book, about engraving]. Levitin ES, compiler. Moscow: Kniga; 1986. 238 p. Russian.
  8. El’konin DB. Detskaya psikhologiya [Child psychology]. El’konin BD, editor. Moscow: Akademiya; 2011. 383 p. Russian.
  9. Pakhomov VV. Knizhnoe iskusstvo. Kniga 2: zamysel oformleniya [Book art. Book 2: design concept]. Moscow: Iskusstvo; 1961. 432 p. Russian.
  10. Toffler E. Tret’ya volna [The third wave]. Burmistrov KYu, translator. Moscow: AST; 2002. 776 p. Russian.
  11. Girenok FI. Metafizika pata (kosnoyazychie ustalogo cheloveka) [Metaphysics stalemate (the tongue-tied of a tired person)]. Moscow: Akademicheskii proekt; 2014. 236 p. Russian.
  12. Frumkin KG. Clip thinking and the fate of linear text. Topos [Internet]. 2010 [cited 2022 December 5]. Available from: https://www.topos.ru/article/7371. Russian.
  13. Buzovskii II, Karlyukevich AN, Postalovskii AV, Rotman DG. Osobennosti transformatsii informatsionnogo polya Respubliki Belarus’ v sovremennykh usloviyakh: sotsiologicheskii analiz [Features of the transformation of the information field of the Republic of Belarus in modern conditions: a sociological analysis]. Minsk: Vyshejshaja shkola; 2020. 132 p. Russian.
  14. Zagidullina MV. Journalism and challenges of modern technologies: net-thinking as a new period of human abilities development. Bulletin of Chelyabinsk State University. 2015;5:20–25. Russian.
  15. Kharitonova SV. Modelirovanie periodicheskikh izdanii dlya detei [Modelling of periodicals for children]. Minsk: Belarusian State University; 2013. 115 p. Russian.

Downloads

Published

2023-11-06

Issue

No. 2 (2023): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Journalism

Section

Media Strategies and Tactics

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]
Kharytonоva S.V. 2023. Visual approaches to the representation of information in Belarusian children’s magazines of the 21st century. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Journalism. 2 (Nov. 2023), 13–19.