Information on the thesis

Dissertation for a Candidate degree of Social Communications, specialty
27.00.04  -theory  and  history  of  journalism.  –  Lviv  National  Ivan  Franko
University
The  dissertation  is  devoted  to  the  analysis  of  the  dialogue  between  the
Church and society in the light of new media discourse. A review key concepts
and  strategies  of  this  type  of  communication  in  new  media  is  based  on
theoretical  and  methodological  developments  with  emphasis  on  topics
discourse  theory  and  the  concept  of  dialogue  speech.  Presented  by  purely
practical understanding of the communication triangle “Church – New media –
Society”  against  the  background  of  challenges  Ukrainian  society,  through
significant  events  of  years  2000-2015  Orange  Revolution,  Euromaidan,
Russian-Ukrainian  war.  Discovered  prospects  of  communication  strategies
between the Church and society in the network – on the background of social
networks  and  the  blogosphere.  The  sociological  research  (survey  among
seminarians,  students,  journalists,  religious  readers  of  the  site  and  journalists
working in the network) showed that all communication couples interested in
communication quality coverage of religious issues on the Internet, tend to be
open  to  discussion  and  want  to  improve  communication  in  the  new
media most of all.
Keywords:  dialogue,  the  Church,  new  media,  religious  journalism,
Internet, content, social networks, blogs, society.