TO THE PROBLEM OF THE PATRIOTIC CONTENT OF THE CHURCH PERIODICALS OF THE URALS

Abstract

Axiosphere of media products is the key point in the study of efficiency of modern religious
media, determination of their place in the general journalistic system of Russia. Focusing
on the formation of certain values of church-goers and trying to attract attention of
the worldly reader, spectator, listener, Orthodox mass media of the Ural Federal district
introduce four semantic axiological components in the conceptual basis of their media.
They are love, mercy, family values and patriotism. When speaking about the latter authors
try to defend the idea of imperial patriotism, encourage to bring back patriarchal
foundations both into the state and into the family constructing the image of enemy. In the
texts the concept ‘enemy’ contrasts with the generalized ‘we’ concept. Without trying to
conceal techniques of manipulating consciousness authors actively use them in verbal and
in non-verbal forms. These techniques are an active use of sign system, appeal to the supposed
expert, emotional modeling by means of graphic elements, etc. The material for the
analysis is more than one hundred titles of Ural mass media (2010–2013). This period is
characterized by the active restoration of the system of the Orthodox mass media in the
Ural Federal district, by a number of new religious printed products. The number and variety
of media products can introduce vital ethical corrections into the consciousness of
residents of the certain Russian region.