On the Need to Update the Concepts of Journalism and Media

Section: Theory of Journalism and Media

Today mass media concepts should become a subject of multi aspect moderniza­tion. The philological component of media text should be taken into account bearing in mind their considerably inhomogeneous character within the frames of mass me­dia system. We should rethink the journalism and mass media functions in the mod­ern society from a perspective of democratic participation and public sphere, and also reconsider functions of mass media as a business that is getting closer to other creative industries starting to compete for the consumers' free time, and also conse­quences of the digital revolution. The systems of journalism and mass media have changed substantially under the influence of digital revolution. In this context the author underlines the importance of the theoretical conceptions' of journalism and mass media modernization.