Media Among the Mediums of Social Communication

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Irina D. Fomicheva

Doctor of Philology, Professor at the Chair of Sociology of Mass Communications, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

e-mail: fomicliira@gmail.com

Section: Theory of Journalism and Media

The article is devoted to the usage of key notions of several disciplines which are focused on journalism/mass communications/media/media of mass information. The author draws attention on the number handbooks and monographs in the English language which are concerned those entities and the process of their rising and development. Means of mass information are examined as a special part of mass communications with their unique characteristics. Several examples of scientific and educational disciplines with their objects and content are given in conclusion.

Keywords: communication, mass communication, media, new media, mass information media