[Commlist] New issue of the World of Media journal released

A New issue of  World of Media. Journal of Russian Media and Journalism 
Studies has just been released.

You can access the full-text articles here: 
http://worldofmedia.ru/volumes/2020/2020_Issue_4/


*Table of contents*
*World of Media. Journal of Russian Media and Journalism Studies*
*Issue 4-2020*

/Kampes, C. F., & Brentel, I. (2020). The German online media market: 
Online-born information offerings and their audiences – A shift towards 
digital inequalities? World of Media. Journal of Russian Media and 
Journalism Studies 4: 5–34. DOI: 10.30547/worldofmedia.4.2020.1/

Media market and media-related inequalities in society have been 
intensively discussed in academia. Yet it is unclear if the online media 
market environment reproduces existing inequalities, smoothens them or 
even creates new ones among media offerings and users, potentially 
reinforcing a social divide. In this study, we test to which extent 
inequalities found are truly digital-induced or reproduced from offl ine 
context using the German Longitudinal IntermediaPlus 2014-2016 dataset 
and descriptive statistics. Based on an integrative analysis we combine 
the perspectives of German media offerings (supply side) and media 
audiences (demand side). We rely on the comparison of the genre 
portfolios of offl ine-originated and online-born media offerings to 
evaluate inequalities in the German online media market, based on past 
research, assuming that offl ine-originated media providers primarily 
replicate their strategic product portfolio from the offl ine media 
market to the online media market. Using the media providers’ origin, we 
identify a typology of offl ine-originated and onlineborn media 
offerings. For inequalities in media use and potentially resulting 
social divides we refer to research on the knowledge gap hypothesis and 
digital divide studies. For 2016, we found German online-born media 
offerings having a thematically contradictory, entertainment-focused 
product portfolio that balances existing offl ine-originated 
inequalities. However, it provokes a ‘silent’ de-polarization, with 
political offerings almost exclusively offl ine-originated evolving into 
a niche market on the supply side. On the demand side, we found stronger 
inequalities in the use of offl ine-originated online media offerings by 
gender, education and socio-economic status. These mainly mirror the 
inequalities known from the offl ine context. For age, we found uniquely 
digital inequalities in online media use.

/Tolokonnikova, A., Dunas, D., & Kulchitskaya, D. (2020). Social media 
and adolescents: Possibilities for satisfying psychological needs. 
Results of in-depth interviews with Russian pupils and university 
students. World of Media. Journal of Russian Media and Journalism 
Studies 4: 37—56. DOI: 10.30547/worldofmedia.4.2020.2/

The article examines the possibilities for satisfying adolescents’ basic 
psychological needs in a digital environment. The study is based on a 
series of in-depth interviews with youth representatives with profound 
knowledge of digital technologies that are strongly integrated into 
their daily routine (a total of 20 interviews). The sample group 
included school pupils and university students from Moscow, Rostovon-Don 
and Nizhny Novgorod aged from 10 to 19 (born in 1999-2008). According to 
the most common childhood periodization in Russia by Daniel Elkonin 
(1989), the chosen age range allows to fully cover the period of 
adolescence, as well as early juvenility. This simplifi es the task of 
matching schoolchildren’s motives when addressing the media with their 
basic psychological needs. The analysis of the collected data indicated 
that such basic needs of adolescents as desire to obtain knowledge, 
pursuit of communication and grouping with peers, interest to ‘try on’ 
various social roles, formation of one’s identity, etc., today can be 
fully satisfied within the digital environment. This makes certain 
Internet resources (in particular, social networks and instant 
messengers) especially attractive to the young audience, as the main 
media and communication platforms for the modern youth.

/Lopes da Silva, A. (2020). Theoretical interrelationships between 
television studies and excess in media discourse. World of Media. 
Journal of Russian Media and Journalism Studies 4: 57—79. DOI: 
10.30547/worldofmedia.4.2020.3/

This article aims to bring five possible views on the theoretical and 
compound relationships between excess and television. Therefore, the 
hyperbolic excess, semiotic excess, stylistic excess, bodily excess, and 
palimpsestic excess are brought into the discussion as combinatorial 
aesthetic modalities that permeate the TV media discourse. More than 
just systematizing the debate on such theoretical combinations, what is 
concluded in this work is that television is based on an ontological 
vision where the excess is understood as a qualitative discursive 
production. Consequently, the excess is present in the television 
language and is an intrinsic part of its form as a medium of social and 
cultural communication.

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