The National Originality of Russian School of Research: the Theories in Dissertation Papers in 1991–2010

Section: Discussion

The article presents the classification's results of both PhD research and doctoral dissertations which were held out in the period from 1991 to 2010 in Journalism Science or in others sciences, but substantively related to journalism and the media studies. The author proposes to classify the theses according to 16 types of theoretical evaluation categories. The obtained results allow to identify the main trends in the theoretical dynamic of Russian media studies during 20 years and highlight the main features of the Russian school of media studies that characterize its national identity. The objectives of the study indicate the need to comply with the general state of theory in connection with the creation of an encyclopedic dictionary of terms and concepts in journalism and media studies.