JOURNALISM IN CONDITIONS OF ARMED CONFLICT:

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MEDIA PRACTICES, TRUST, AND INTERPRETIVE FRACTURES IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE

Editorial Note

This article was first published in the journal Interview Ukraine, No. 4-2022 (April 2022), as an analytical reporter-style article devoted to the transformation of journalism and the media environment under conditions of the armed conflict between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, as well as the associated structural changes in public communication and trust.
In 2022, the editorial board decided to republish the article in the International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research, Volume 3, Issue 2 (2022), due to its pronounced interdisciplinary character and analytical significance for research in media studies, political communication, and sociology.
Upon republication:

the material is presented as an author-archived version in order to ensure academic accessibility and international citation.

the content of the article was not subjected to substantive changes;

the structure and argumentation were preserved in the author’s original version;

Abstract

The article analyzes the transformation of journalism under conditions of full-scale armed conflict and radical polarization of the public sphere. It examines changes in media practices in a situation where traditional professional standards function under conditions of high threat, informational pressure, and accelerated erosion of trust between different segments of the audience.
Special attention is given to the role of the journalist under conditions of war, the transformation of the concept of neutrality, and the structural limitations of analytical journalism in a conflict-driven media environment. The changes under consideration are interpreted not as a temporary anomaly, but as a stable shift in the logic of media functioning and public communication.

Keywords:

journalism; armed conflict; Ukraine; Russian Federation; media practices; trust; interpretive conflict; public sphere; analytical journalism.

Author: Oleksandr Hryhoriev
ORCID: 0009-0002-3975-358X

International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research
Volume 3, Issue 2 (2022)

Reviewer (acknowledged): Valerii Herlanets
ORCID: 0009-0001-6289-3241

DOI: pending

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