Professional journalistic culture in the space of academic research: experience of structuring and systematizing

Section: Sociology of Journalism

The paper introduces several related areas of sociological empirical research aimed to study representatives of the Russian journalistic community. The article considers the question about the composition and structure of the professional culture of a journalist as a phenomenon of public order, highlights the characteristic directions of transformations taking place in the thesaurus of modern research of the journalistic community, presents changes in the structure and content of the basic definition of the phenomenon of professional journalistic culture. Based on empirical research materials, the possibilities of expanding the concept of “professional culture of a journalist” by including an analysis of professional development trajectories and evaluating the success of journalistic activities are shown. The indicators of various types of success in journalism (success-popularity, recognition, overcoming and self-overcoming, mission) are presented. The connection between the social nature of journalism and the understanding of journalism as a special social institution with the need to include the sociological culture of a journalist in the model of professional culture is demonstrated. A review of the empirical research experience of representatives of the Moscow school of media sociology confirms the need to improve the sociological knowledge and skills of modern journalists.

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To cite this article: Anikina M. E. (2024) Professional’naya kul’tura zhurnalista v prostranstve akademicheskikh issledovaniy: opyt strukturirovaniya i sistematizatsii [Professional journalistic culture in the space of academic research: experience of structuring and systematizing]. Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seriya 10. Zhurnalistika 6: 98–114. DOI: 10.55959/msu.vestnik.journ.6.2024.98114