Media studies in scientific and educational discourses: in search of a research object

Abstract

In 2019, the Borys Hrinchenko Institute of Journalism of Kyiv University began work on a new research topic "Media Studies in Scientific and Educational Discourses" (2019-2024), the relevance of which is due to: 1) the need to form a new direction in Ukrainian scientific discourse - media studies , which is in the process of finding its research object, delineating the boundaries of the field, formulating theoretical positions, defining practical areas of application, approval of its own metalanguage and methodology; 2) the need to combine in the educational process the theory of media studies and media practice; 3) the general tendency to carry out interdisciplinary and intersectoral integrated research; 4) the lack of Ukrainian scientific discourse not only special works on the formation of media studies as one of the youngest branches of science, but also generalizing theoretical research on the typology of media studies disciplines, which in teaching practice for several years in a row typological media studies. Evidence of this is, for example, the following list of disciplines at the Institute of Journalism: "Media Culture", "Media Education", "Media Policy", "Media Law", "Media Psychology", "Media Psychology", "Media Management and Media Marketing", "Media Economics", "Media Economics", "," Media Policy and Information Security "," Media Law and Protection of Intellectual Property "," Media Planning and Media Forecasting "," Mediarelationships "and others. (information as of December 2019).