ИСТИНА

Established in the year 2000 by the year 2017 medialinguistics has not only been recognized as a full-fledged academic discipline, but developed several major branches of studying language in the media, which cover the following topics: 1) developing a set of parameters specially designed for a thorough and coherent description of all possible types of media texts, 2) special studies of news discourse, aimed at analyzing and describing the process of news gathering and distribution in different media, the study of particular language and media techniques used for interpretation and influence on the basis of the information model, which helps to structure the unceasing news flow and other media activities into separate stages: selection of facts, interpretation of events, creating images, forming stereotypes, cultural/ideological context. 3) analysis of the world information space in terms of linguocultural and culture-pragmatic approach, aimed at understanding the role and interaction of such international state-backed media projects as BBC World, CNN, Al Jazeera, CCTV, France 24, Deutsche Welle English, RT (Russia Today) 4) studying diverse mechanisms of information influence and propaganda, techniques of framing political news within the context of ideologically different media sources, mainstream and alternative press. 5) the impact of Internet and social networks on the nature of journalism and media texts.