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Article name Psychology of Journalism as a Systemic Element of the Modern Journalist’s Professional Development
Authors Erofeeva I.V.Doctor of Philology, associate professor irina-jour@yandex.ru
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UDK 159.923
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Annotation The article presents the analysis of the content and methodology components included into the course of lectures and seminars in “Psychology of Journalism”. Considering the information policy dominating in Russia the discipline is defined as essential and actual for the journalist’s development under current social and political conditions. The tasks of the discipline have been determined as well as the range of the key issues (behaviorism, cognitive psychology, Gestalt-psychology, neurolinguistic programming, etc.) of the media text within the paradigm of psychological concepts. The focus is made on the psychological cognition of the self as a personality and a professional. The analytical review of the cognitive components of the discipline resulted in identifying the socio-psychological functions of mass media: affective-communicative, development of the psychological unity, socialization of the audience, psychotherapeutic function.
Key words Psychology of journalism, a journalist’s professional development, psychology culture, socio-psychological functions of mass media, psychological dysfunction.
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