RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism (Sep 2012)
New times - new methods (modern society reflected in journalism)
Abstract
The article studies the problems of application of new scientific methods in mass media's reflection of modern socio political processes. These methods are associated primarily with epistemological ways of cognition such as sensualism, rationalism, agnosticism, irrationalism, scientific ways of knowing. Each of these ways can be applied in the current TV communications' research. However the basis of a research should be laid on scientific methods of cognition including observation, experiment, comparative analysis, supported by scientific theories.