Grammatization of Amateur Travel Journalism (Based on the Example of the Memorative Landscape of Arkaim)

Section: Media Text in a New Technological Environment: Digital Transformation of Communication

The article is devoted to issues of methodology in media research: it shows how the concept of grammaticality proposed by Bernard Stiegler in relation to platforms (using YouTube as an example) can become a tool for analysing certain segments of content. The empirical basis of the study is the video narratives of non-professional journalists united by a common travel destination (Chelyabinsk State Historical and Archaeological Museum-Reserve “Arkaim”). The total number of stories analysed is 23. An algorithm for studying the “grams” (rules) of the technological platform itself, which determine the strategies of content creators, is proposed, and a possible analysis grid is presented, which takes into account the grammaticalisation of the technological platform and ensures the circulation of content. It is proposed to take into account a specific research question in the choice of analysis parameters and to refuse to include in the analysis elements that are not essential to this question. As a result of the analysis, specific frequency characteristics of video narratives were obtained that are relevant to the study of the amateur journalistic segment “Arkaim”.

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To cite this article: Zagidullina M. V. (2024) Grammatizatsiya lyubitel’skoy trevel-zhurnalistiki (na primere memorativnogo landshafta Arkaima) [Grammatization of amateur travel journalism (based on the example of the memorative landscape of Arkaim)]. Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seriya 10. Zhurnalistika 3: 63–88. DOI: 10.30547/vestnik.journ.3.2024.6388