Terms — A Reservoir of Concepts

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Galina V. Lazutina

PhD in Philology, Associate Professor at the Chair of Periodical Press, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

e-mail: galvik34@mail.ru

Section: Theory of Journalism and Media

The article presents the reader a number of terms outlining the concept of jour­nalist’s creative activity, which was created on the base of a system approach to the analysis of this sphere. The author gives a characteristic to the main block of terms, which have made the foundation of the study course “Basics of journalist’s profes­sional activity” for the Bachelor’s degree programme in journalism departments of Russian universities.

Keywords: social activity, information, social information, public consciousness, mass consciousness, mass information, journalist’s professional activity