Studies in Contemporary Journalism and Communication in Russia's Provinces

This book examines the contemporary communicational practices of journalists and media outlets and the consumption and reception patterns of audiences in Russia's provinces with an emphasis on the intergenerational transmission of culture and memory.
Investigating the interaction and issues of contemporary identity, culture, audiences and journalism in a rapidly changing and evolving Russia, this volume goes beyond the large metropolitan centres into the provincial regions of Russia to develop a more comprehensive overview. Despite a popular image that is often projected of Russia as a homogeneous, often threatening entity, its regions are very far from being uniform, with diverse, varied geographies, ethnicities, religions, cultures, resources and economic infrastructure. The perspectives offered by a range of scholars and practitioners explore the generational, political and regional diversities that exist across this vast country and analyse local and regional media.
Covering topics not often discussed, this volume offers an important contribution for everyone interested in Russian politics, culture, journalism and history and the study of local and regional communication studies.

Greg Simons is currently a researcher at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies (IRES) at Uppsala University, a lecturer in the Department of Communication Science and leading researcher at the Business Technology Institute at Turiba University in Riga, Latvia, and a leading researcher at the Humanitarian Institute at Ural Federal University in Yekaterinburg, Russia. He is on the Senior Editorial Board of the Journal for Political Marketing. Anna Sumskaya received her PhD degree in pedagogical sciences at Chelyabinsk State Pedagogical University in 2005, and since 2019 she has been an applicant for the degree of Doctor of Philology. Anna has been an associate professor in Television and Other Screen Arts since 2016. From 2008 to 2018 she worked at the Faculty of Journalism of the Chelyabinsk State University, and from 2016 to the present - at the Faculty of Journalism of the Ural Federal University (Yekaterinburg, Russia).

Chapter One: Introduction Part I - Shaping Content and Perception Chapter Two: Word Associations as a Source of Internet-Discourse Development Chapter Three: Perception of Thematic Multimedia Storytelling by the Digital Media Generation Part II - Culture, Politics and Society in Local Journalism Chapter Four: Axiological Culture of a Journalist Chapter Five: Journalist at the Verge of Generations: Intergenerational Differences and Media Presentation Styles Chapter Six: Periodical Press of the Orenburg Region and Power Part III - Local and Regional Approaches to "News" Production Chapter Seven: Concept of Content-Based News Discourse Construction Chapter Eight: Magic Realism as the Research Optic for Regional News Chapter Nine: The Sheremetyevo Airport Tragedy Framing in the Context of an Information Agenda and Differentiated Editorial Policy Chapter Ten: Screen Media as an Interactive Platform for the Generations' Cultural Experience Transmission Part IV - Transmitting Communicative and Cultural Memory Chapter Eleven: Russian Professional Podcasting as an Explorer to the World of Personality and Translator of Communicative and Cultural Memory Chapter Twelve: Problems of Digitisation of Communicative and Cultural Memory in a Multi-Ethnic Region of Russia Chapter Thirteen: Linguistic Markers of Communicative-Cultural Memory of the Generations in the Reflection of the Social Network