On May 25-26, the 2nd Scientific and practical conference of students, graduate students and young scientists “Modern Mass Communication Space: History, Realities, Prospects” was held online at the Department of Journalism and Philology of the FРSС of Sumy State University.
The participants of the conference listened with great attention to the reports made at the plenary session. The head of the Department of Journalism and Philology, Professor Volodymyr Sadivnychiy spoke on the topic: “Journalism is mass, mass or for the masses. What to choose for research?”.

Professor of the Department of Journalism and Philology Iryna Zhуlenko and Doctor of Philosophy Olena Ishchenko prepared presentations on topics that speak eloquently for themselves: “The place of literature in the training of journalism specialists”, “Media text as a means of influence (using the examples of the publications ‘Ukrainian Pravda’ and ‘Dzerkalo’ tyzhnia)”.

No less interesting were the topics “Television broadcasting of Sumy Oblast during the period of martial law: problems and challenges” and “Essence and functions of the informational activity of language manipulation in advertising”, which were introduced to the participants of the event by Oksana Kyrylenko, a graduate student of the Department of Journalism and Philology of the FPSC of Sumy State University, and a graduate student of Kyiv University named after Borys Grinchenko Andriy Sinko.

In the work of the sectional meetings (leaders - associate professors of the department Yaroslav Yanenko and Inna Gavryliuk, teachers Anna Chernysh, Olena Ishchenko, Raisa Stoyan) teachers, students and postgraduate students of Sumy State University, Educational and Scientific Institute of Journalism of Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, Kyiv University participated Borys Grinchenko University, Tushia University (Viterbo, Italy), Poltava National Pedagogical University named after V. G. Korolenko, Nizhyn State University named after M. Gogol and others.

They discussed the problems of forming the information space in war conditions, countering information and psychological operations, mass media factors of “biological weapons” in the propaganda anti-Ukrainian war, content filling of the modern information space, the appropriateness of manifestations of authorship in media texts, the specifics of covering the topic of Ukrainian prisoners of war, the approaches of European media to coverage of the full-scale invasion of russia into Ukraine, the use of patriotic values and national symbols in Ukrainian commercial advertising, political PR in the electronic mass media during the russian-Ukrainian war, coverage by local Internet publications of the new realities of school education, etc.

– Most of the studies of the participants of our conference are devoted to the state of the national information space and the impact of the russian-Ukrainian war on it, – noted Volodymyr Sadivnychiy. – And this is absolutely natural: whoever wins the informational battles, rules the world.