Attributes of God in Audience Consciousness: Analyzing Text of Mass Self-Expression

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Viktor M. Khroul

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

e-mail: amen@mail.ru

Section: Sociology of Journalism

Based on mass self-communication analysis paper describes the religious segment of the mass media audience consciousness. Author proposes new object for audience research — Interne mass self-expression texts — and uses for the analysis Boris Grushin’s method MATEMC as an effective tool for investigating the essential characteristics of religious mass consciousness.

Keywords: media audience consciousness, mass self-communication, mass self-expression, attributes of God, Grushin