Internet Mass-media and Features of Their Functioning

Abstract

Influence of mass-media on people's life and minds cannot be denied. “The Forth Estate”, metaphorical name given to media, speaks for itself. Internet is possibly one of the greatest achievements of a mankind. We are looking at the born of the new, very special realm, neither connected to physical, nor mind space. Internet is a big media itself, roughly. That's why it is so interesting to observe evolution of journalism in the modern time. The goal of this work is to analyze functioning of internet mass-media. Especially I wanted to focus on the new possibilities, which global web is able to give to media, such as interactivity, multimedia and etc. It was important to show this topic in the up-to-date view; therefore, the reader will be able to find below several thoughts on how social networks create our day-to-day news feed. Legal status of internet-media is described. Also the text includes thoughts about the role of web-journalism in the realms of modern Russian journalism; statistics includes as an illustration.