Types of convergence of contemporary media texts

 

For citation: Annenkova I., Khorina K. Types of convergence of contemporary media texts // Mediascope. 2024. 2. Available at: http://www.mediascope.ru/2864

 

© Irina V. Annenkova

Doctor of Philology, Professor at the Chair of Stylistics of Russian language, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia), anneirina@yandex.ru

© Ksenia A. Khorina

Specialist in academic and methodical work, Graduate of PhD programme, Chair of Stylistics of Russian language, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia), khorina.xenia@yandex.ru

 

Abstract

Over the last 10-20 years, the convergence process has been one of the most required research orientation in media studies, but most of the studies have concentrated on the general effects of convergence and have not scrutinized the influence of the convergence on stylistic aspects of media texts. This paper examines the stylistic features of modern media texts created and published by convergent media. The data were collected from the sample of texts published on random days (no=317) in 12 most quoted Russian media (newspapers, magazines, radio stations, TV-channels, and online media). The authors studied nine general texts’ characteristics and used statistical analysis of collected data. The results demonstrate diversity of the convergent potential level of different texts’ characteristics.

 

Key words: media text, convergence, types of convergence, genre, speech genre, pragmatics, media topic.

 

Notes

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