Periodical studies is a common name for a huge trend in cultural and media studies, launched by Latham’s and Scholes’s publication “The Rise of Periodical Studies” in PMLA in 2006. The article highlights the history of the formation of periodical studies as a separate field of interdisciplinary research in Western Europe and the USA, in which periodicals are the object. The connection between periodical studies and press studies in Ukraine was established, the evolution of approaches to the study of periodicals from an autonomous object of research The main directions of the study of periodicals at the current stage are outlined. The change in research methodology is traced, taking into account relational, transactional approaches, gender studies and achievements of cultural studies, as well as digital technologies and methods of processing large data sets. The article contains factual information about the organizational and institutional support of the industry, as well as the corpus of English-language scientific periodicals, in which the research results are tested. Based on the materials of foreign publications, the prospects for the development of the field, as well as its interactions with other areas of humanitarian research, are summarized. Keywords: press, periodicals, journalism, press studies, periodical studies, journalism studies.
The article outlines the main trends in the studies of British press presented by Ukrainian media researches since Ukraine gained its independence in 1991. The author describes the objects of their greatest interest and analyses the subject area of the works. The paper also concentrates on the perspectives of such researches. Particular attention is paid to the entire discourse of studies on the whole press system functioning and its certain aspects. Extensive coverage is given to the main tendencies of its development as well as the experience of applying the special practical tools.
The article emphasizes the role of prominent British journalist and writer, expert on Central and Eastern Europe and energy and cyber security Edward Lucas for the formation of the Ukrainian media space and the implementation of world standards of quality journalism. In particular, special attention is paid to the study of his author’s texts published in Ukrainian publications during the 1990s – 2021, in particular in the magazine The Ukrainian Week and the The Day newspaper. The main genre forms of E. Lucas’s journalism are singled out, in particular the article and the author’s column embodied in the genre of commentary, political portrait, version, review, analytical article. The main thematic dominants of publications are identified (international politics and economics, political process in countries that are key players on the world map, US and European foreign policy, collective se curity issues, information wars, Britain’s exit from the EU, growing threat from Russia and China, consequences of the pandemic). The peculiarities of E. Lucas’ stylistics (bright language, expressive and evaluative vocabulary, metaphors, breadth of generalizations) are noted. Personalized content and biographical-memoir elements of texts are singled out. It is emphasized that Lucas’s journalism is based on a deep study of historical and economic processes, mental characteristics, interests of various strata of national societies, political contradictions within the governments of nation states, as well as supranational entities such as the European Union and NATO. The social and journalistic reception of Edward Lucas’s journalism in the Ukrainian media is studied and examples of its influence on the socio-political life of Ukraine are given. Keywords: Edward Lucas, journalism, political journalism, columnism, information warfare.
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