Publisher: Факултет по журналистика и масова комуникация, Софийски университет „Св. Кл. Охридски”

Medialog

Медиалог

Frequency: 2 issues / Country: Bulgaria

Medialog is an electronic research journal on media research, culture and communication.

The journal is a platform for wider academic activities: a research area for academic dialogue and a learning field for media and communication education. Publications by PhD students and young researchers, to which special issues are dedicated, are encouraged. It is a platform for peer-reviewed books in Bulgarian and English. The journal is an open-access publication featuring texts published after two positive anonymous reviews.

It was launched in 2017 by the Radio and Television Department at the Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication of St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, with funding from a research project under the university’s Scientific Research Fund.

Media and Language

Медии и език

Frequency: 2 issues / Country: Bulgaria

Media and Language is an electronic scientific journal for media language research. It is registered as an electronic scientific publication with index ISSN 2535-0587.

As a discipline in which the linguistic approach is combined with the media field as a subject of study, ie. as a linguistic and journalistic discipline, medialinguistics deals with the functioning of linguistic levels in media speech, the interrelationships of media linguistic practice with linguistic norms and codification, the normalization of widespread speach errors in the media, the trends and processes in the media and many other problems.

Medialinguistics is interested in the processes of mediation of contemporary society and the various aspects of the media impact on the audience (news discourse, advertising, public relations, etc.), as well as the peculiarities of the functioning of power discourses and the processes of mediation of politics through language and style. The understanding the main categories of media discourse and applying methods of analysis, rhetorical knowledge to create texts in mass communication, understanding the peculiarities of localization of media products taking into account the cultural differences in the media space are an essential part of the research in the field of media stylistics.

In Bulgarian science, the potential for media language research is high, but the popularization of research results in this field is weak. The purpose of the Media and Language Magazine is precisely to unite the efforts of researchers in this field and to create a platform on which related publications in the field of media language and style can be easily and quickly found. With increasing interest in contemporary phenomena such as the language of hate, the language of political correctness, the language of the media and politicians, and in the face of growing concern from a post-truth media and political influence, medialinguistic research has become a major benchmark for rapid and accurate reading  media and political messages.

Design of the newspaper

Дизайн на вестника

Author(s): Vesselina Valkanova / Language(s): Bulgarian

Keywords: design; press; newspaper; online; media; e-paper

The paper "Design of the newspaper" presents the significant structural changes in the field of print press. The emphasis is on the specifics of newspaper products, typological and design lines of development, visual presentation, construction strategies, efficiency and reception of the three modern forms of the newspaper - the traditional printed product, e-paper and online emissions - essential for the communication behavior of the oldest media and the prospects for its development.

Books of imagination

Книги на въображението

Author(s): Milena Tsvetkova / Language(s): Bulgarian

Keywords: book science; book research; media studies; scientific studies of reading; creative communication; media reception; book as a media; publishing projects

This is an educational publication, intended to cover the university demands in the fields of academic disciplines, such as book studies and reading, of book-knowledge and book-publishing industry, which are taught courses at the Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication, Sofia University, Bulgaria. It is a collection of creative concepts and designs produced by the students, studying Book publishing and Creative Communication, MA Program, FJMC, Sofia University. The concise review represents 6 stages of project activities occurred in a 6-year time period (2007-2013); it consists of totally 77 educational projects of 76 university students; one of them participated with 2 original projects consequently in two Post-Gutenberg Book Annual Student Competitions. Methodology and findings of the project lab-experiment concerning both concepts - My Book-Dream and Alternative Book Bodies, have been bases on the notion that in the field of book studies, similar to each other scholarly field, a futuristic creative thinking should be developed. Methodology, due to the educational tasks’ creative nature, is recommending design activities to be organized around the imagination techniques. The usage of this approach requires an interactive relationship between the book knowledge and visual anthropology, visual sociology and architecture anthropology and emphasizes on the very strong influence of artificial lifestyle environment (e.g. hybrid products such as book-alley, book-sleeping room, book-building, book-furniture, etc.) on human psyche and behaviour. Students interpret their projects in the frame of the norms and from the standing point of the standards they learned about during the taught course named The Book as a Media; it occurs a kind of visualization of the cohesion between the reader and the book (an intimate act of reading) or a subjective image of the ideal reading (the environment and the channel needed for the text perception). Creative interpretation of the book as an object stimulates the process of producing its objective associations and metaphors as book-aphorisms. The contribution of this publication refers to the application of specific methods for visual and spatial thinking while developing futuristic creative art abilities and skills in the respective field. Each separate project may become a reason numerous discussions to be held out, for ex. debate concerning such questions as what would be the image of the future book and how will it function tomorrow?; what would be the new opportunities to carry on, pass on, interpret and create information?; what would be the new content management forms?; what is the chance for the visual book based on the universal international language – the visual one, to survive, having in mind the background of the many voices and many languages of the multiple cultures (in synchrony with the popular cases concerning book-polylingua and wordless or ‘mute’ books)?; what is the chance of the space-figurative book as a counterpoint of the present flat two-dimensional carrier – the print sheet of paper or the display (as a reflection of the spherical book or book-globe, the dream of the renown film experimentator Sergey Eisenstein), etc. Each producer and publisher would be able to use this publication in order to develop creative projects and innovative ideas of his/her own. The publication may provoke initiation of new research directions and new ways to rethink this key technology of knowledge verbalization and memorization – the phenomenon called THE BOOK.

Communication Management: Theory and Practice in the 21st Century

Communication Management: Theory and Practice in the 21st Century

Author(s): / Language(s): English

Keywords: communication; management; academic; journalism; media; university; ECREA; CEECOM

The current volume “Communication Management: Theory and Practice in the 21st Century” consists of the articles presented at the international scientific conference of the same name, which was held in Sofia in June 2019. The event was organized by the Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication at the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, in cooperation with the ECREA Central and East European Network and the CEECOM Consortium.Both the scientific forum and the current volume are dedicated to an important anniversary for the Bulgarian scientific and academic community – 45 years of the founding of the Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication (FJMC) at the Sofia University as an independent academic unit with the aim to educate students in the fields of social communication, journalism and media.

Quality journalism and a new communication environment

Качествена журналистика и нова комуникационна среда

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Bulgarian

Keywords: quality; journalism; communication; environment

This volume “Quality Journalism and a New Communication Environment” collects the reports of the International Scientific Conference held on October 29 and 30, 2020 in Sofia under the same title and organized by the Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. The conference took place in a difficult time of pandemic and critical point of our media ecosystem and was conducted through the video conferencing platform Microsoft Teams. Namely in crisis situations such as the current pandemic situation, which put the participants of the conference behind the cameras and microphones of computers, and not in a common conference room, we can see a return of confidence in traditional media that do not fabricate news, check facts, without speculation on people's fears. Despite the unusual way of holding the conference managed to achieve its goals: to meet journalists with many years of experience, researchers, scientists and teachers from Bulgaria, Europe and the world and to highlight the main issues related to quality media and the challenges to journalism in the new communication environment.

Media Literacy: Classical And New Dimensions

Медийна грамотност: Класически и нови измерения

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Bulgarian

Keywords: media; literacy; journalism; public relations; communication

This collection of reports contains the research and reports by colleagues from 12 Bulgarian universities, and by practicing journalists, who have participated in the conference and have discussed with their colleagues from foreign universities and educational organizations topics like professional standards of journalism; media art, and art journalism; visual and nonverbal communication in media; media in times of a pandemic; infodemic on the pandemic; media languages; media and audience – the changing communication; the world, the values, the media; communication challenges to the new communication environment. This collection of reports contains the researches and reports by colleagues from 12 Bulgarian universities, and by practicing journalists, who have participated in the conference and have discussed with their colleagues from foreign universities and educational organizations topics like: professional standards of journalism; media art and art journalism; visual and nonverbal communication in media; media in times of a pandemic; infodemic on the pandemic; media languages; media and audience – the changing communication; the world, the values, the media; communication challenges to the new communication environment.

COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA OF THE 21ST CENTURY: EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL CHALLENGES : International Scientific Conference of FJMC held on 27-28.10.2022

КОМУНИКАЦИЯТА И МЕДИИТЕ НА XXI ВЕК: ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛНИ И ПРОФЕСИОНАЛНИ ПРЕДИЗВИКАТЕЛСТВА : Международна научна конференция на ФЖМК, проведена на 27-28.10.2022 г.

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Bulgarian

Keywords: communication; media; education; challenges

This volume collects the reports from the Jubilee International Scientific Conference “Communication and the Media of the XXI Century: Educational and Professional Challenges”, organized by the Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication on October 27 and 28, 2022. The Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication celebrates the 70th- anniversary of the establishment of its bachelor and master programs in Journalism at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. The academic education in journalism in Bulgaria started in the academic year 1952-1953 when the program of Journalism was established at the Faculty of Philology at Sofia University. Later, this program was transformed into a separate Faculty at Sofia University – the Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication. The international conference entitled “Communication and the Media of the XXI Century: Educational and Professional Challenges” was organized and held with the assistance of the media partners – the Bulgarian National Radio and the Bulgarian News Agency, of the academic partners – the University of Vilnius, Lithuania, the University of Bucharest, Romania, the University of Nis, Serbia, the “Shota Rustaveli” University in Batumi, Georgia.

Media and Communication. Volume 1

Медии и комуникация. Том 1

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Bulgarian

Keywords: media literacy; marketing communication; investigative journalism; visual communication; media and public relations; book publishing; press journalism and online journalism; citizen journalism

Scientific collection of Doctoral students from the Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication. Media literacy; tools of marketing communication; sources of information in investigative journalism; visual communication in media and public relations; theory, history, and practices of public relations; innovations in digital marketing; typology of the book and the history of Bulgarian book publishing; the profiles of press journalism and online journalism; citizen journalism-professional journalism relations - the wide range of thematic and research fields of the publications in this collection testifies to the integral character of the scientific specialty "Media and Communications".

Media and Communication. Volume 2

Медии и комуникация. Том 2

Author(s): / Language(s): Bulgarian

Keywords: media literacy; marketing communication; social media; public relations; press; radio; television

Scientific collection of Doctoral students from the Faculty of Journalism and Mass CommunicationThe collection contains articles and studies of doctoral students in the doctoral program "Media and Communications" in the professional field "Public Communications and Information Sciences", which present the achievements of young scientists from the Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication of Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski. Media literacy; new media art; building a personal image; regional identity; management strategies of business organizations; marketing techniques; social media; dialogue in digital marketing communications; alternative problems of digital advertising - the wide range of thematic and research fields of the publications in this collection testify to the integral character of the scientific specialty "Media and Communications".

The Modern Book Publishing: Reality, Trends and Perspectives

Съвременното книгоиздаване: реалност, тенденции и прогнози

Author(s): / Language(s): Bulgarian

Keywords: book; publishing; reading; education; media; trends; Bulgaria

Here is the volume of articles, collecting the reports and research of the participants in the National Scientific and Practical Conference, organized by the Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication of Sofia University on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the specialty "Book Publishing" at the Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication of Sofia University. "Modern Book Publishing. The content of this collection is impressive in its range and scope - from the tradition and new challenges of book publishing and education in book studies and book publishing, through communication and transformations of the book, to the preservation of the literary heritage, reading, and readers. The Modern Book Publishing: Reality, Trends and PerspectivesThe Modern Book Publishing: Reality, Trends and PerspectivesA volume of articles, collecting the reports and research of the participants in the National Scientific and Practical Conference, organized by the Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication of Sofia University on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the specialty "Book Publishing" at the Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication of Sofia University. "The Modern Book Publishing: Reality, Trends and PerspectivesThe".The content of this collection is impressive in its range and scope - from the tradition and new challenges of book publishing and education in book studies and book publishing, through communication and transformations of the book, to the preservation of the literary heritage, reading, and readers.

The media environment in the context of digital change

Медийната среда в условията на дигитална промяна

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Bulgarian

Keywords: digital transformation; media; communication

The proceedings of the international seminar "Dynamics of the Digital Transformation in the Media Environment" are part of a project dedicated to in-depth research on media transformation, funded by the Research Fund of the Ministry of Education and Science and called "Transformation and convergent models of journalism in the process of digitalization, in the digital society and in a digital communicative context: a dispositional analysis". A team of the leading units related to teaching, training and research of media and communication in our country - lecturers and students from the Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Faculty of Philosophy of Sofia University - is working on it. Kl. Ohridski" and colleagues from the Department of Journalism and Public Relations of the University of Transport. Following research work and studies, including a large-scale nationally representative survey, an international online conference was held on the topics of the research project with the participation of our and foreign researchers, PhD students, journalists, and media practitioners, which resulted in this collection.

COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT. Strategic Creation of Communications Managers

КОМУНИКАЦИОНЕН МЕНИДЖМЪНТ. Стратегическо създаване на комуникационни мениджъри

Author(s): / Language(s): Bulgarian

Keywords: communication; management; creativity; science; specialty; faculty

Scientific Collection of the Specialty “Communication Management” at the Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”

Media and Communication: Transformations and Development in the Digital Age

Медиите и комуникацията: трансформации и развитие в дигиталната ера

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Bulgarian

Keywords: media; communication; transformation; digital

This volume “Media and Communication: Transformations and Development in the Digital Age” collects the reports of the 4th International Scientific Conference on Media and Mass Communication held on October 26 and 27, 2023 in Sofia under the same title and organized by the Faculty of Journalism and mass communication at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. It was a great pleasure for us, the hosts, to welcome a large number of participants to this forum, which emphasized the challenges and perspectives in front of communication, media, and journalism in a digital environment. The conference took part 93 researchers and colleagues from 14 countries: USA, India, the Republic of Korea, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Kosovo, Hungary, Poland, Lithuania, Norway and Ukraine. Bulgarian participants came from the leading universities and departments, institutions, organizations, and media. Academic partners of the International Conference are prestigious foreign universities: Eastern Kentucky University, USA, Vilnius University, Lithuania, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania, the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, Portugal, Batumi Shota Rustaveli University, Georgia, University of Bucharest, Romania

Media and Communication. Volume 3

Медии и комуникация. Том 3

Author(s): / Language(s): Bulgarian

Keywords: media; communication

Scientific collection of Doctoral students from the Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication