Criteria and Specifics of Staging Reality in New Media

Abstract

Modern processes in the media, which include the extensive use of integrated content and the shift in emphasis from the correct transmission of the message to the easily understood and simplified form, have led to significant changes in the infosphere. Information distortions take on many forms that are not limited to fakes and inaccuracy, but become part of a large-scale staging of reality. On the basis of the concepts developed by domestic and foreign researchers the author attempts to identify criteria for staging of reality and to analyze the changes that occurred in its mechanisms during the transition from traditional forms of journalistic material to new media. These changes cause the continuous creation of staged risks, which was not possible within the framework of traditional media. The author concludes that these processes should be taken into account as a fundamentally important factor in the analysis of the shaping of public opinion under the influence of the media.