Феномен пиаризации медиа

Коммуникология. 2018. Т. 6. № 3. С. 34–40.

Yefanov A.

The article substantiates the phenomenon of media piarisation. The emphasis is on television and the Internet as multifunctional platforms for implementing PR technologies. There are two directions of media piarisation: political and ideological. It is emphasized, that two of these vectors do not exclude, but rather complement each other, having a number of common points of intersection. A set of methods is used: content analysis of information materials of federal television channels and online publications, discourse analysis of comments of users of social networks, secondary analysis of sociological data. Based on the results of the study, the author comes to the conclusion, that media piarisation is an ambivalent process. On the one hand, communication channels and subjects of PR activity seek to attract attention, inspire resonance – social movements not only in virtual, but also social space (as a result – raising the ratings and direct monetization of “success”), on the other, – piarisation leads to discrediting media, when online publications and TV channels are beginning to be perceived as PR tools (which contradicts the canons of the media), as a result of which there is an increase in the “crisis of confidence”. In the current communication realities, the process of media piarisation is progressive and irreversible, and media relations are becoming a stable form of media functioning.

Keywords: политика, рейтинг, кризис доверия, телевидение, медиа, идеология, социальные движения, PR, media, политическая коммуникация, ideology, rating, Internet, politics, television, PR, political communication, social movements, скандал, интернет, media relations, медиарилейшнз, political scandal, piarisation, show politics, crisis of confidence, пиаризация, политическое шоу, шоу-политика