DIRECTIONS OF REPORTAGE TRANSFORMATION IN ONLINE JOURNALISM

Abstract

The article deals with the transformational changes that occur with the reportage genre on the Internet. First of all, the author proves the formulated scientific problem – the scientific works carried out in this direction have a lack of integrity and systemicity. In view of the need to review the opinions of other researchers, the author analyzes examples of reportage messages published on the Internet, referring to the sites of traditional paper editions, radio, television, news agencies, and purely online editions. As a result, three groups of processes were outlined. The first is the functioning of the traditional types of reportage on the Internet in the virtually unchanged form, that is, in the form typical for the classical manifestation of this genre. Among them, traditional photographic reports and reports with features of artistic journalism, which contain a figurative language, an author’s attitude, and which use the method of a reportage description of reality in the classical way. The second group is the adaptation of the reportage genre to the Internet due to the acquisition of its specific features. In this case, the main factors of the shifts are hypertext, multimedia, interactivity, civil journalism. The third group is associated with the emergence of entirely new varieties of reportage genre, first of all – online reportage and reportage from social networks. It is noted that Internet technologies bring not only additional means of ensuring the effect of presence. The author points to changes in the time limits of reportage – now one publication can cover an event that lasted two or three days. In addition, there has been a shift in approaches to ensuring the effect of presence – the physical presence of a journalist on the event is not already obligatory. Because of this, there is an uncertainty about the correct usage of the term “reportage” in relation to some reports of online media.

Key words: traditional reportage, internet media, internet journalism, online reportage, reportage from social networks.