The Effectiveness of the Ukrainian Protestant Media: Results of a Sociological Survey

Secular and religious researchers, studying this subject, run together in the desire to determine how interesting the informational product to the secular audience is. The researches lack the look from inside such as studying the evaluation of the religious mass media by their main audience – membe...

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Main Author: Maxim BALAKLITSKY
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Language:English
Published: Eastern European Instute of Theology 2011-05-01
Series:Богословські роздуми: Східноєвропейський журнал богословʼя
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Online Access:http://reflections.eeit-edu.info/article/view/89732
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description Secular and religious researchers, studying this subject, run together in the desire to determine how interesting the informational product to the secular audience is. The researches lack the look from inside such as studying the evaluation of the religious mass media by their main audience – members of religious organizations. To fill in this lacuna we carried out a psychological survey not only of the TV and radio, but also press and Internet Ukrainian Protestant mass media audience and staff. The carried out survey of the Protestant mass media staff and audience revealed that the religious mass media belong to the specialized types of publications. Their influence upon the target audience group, members of the religious community is deep and stable, at the same time the missionary potential is quite low. The complex of factors, which accompanies conversion, correspond with interpersonal and group, but not the mass communication. The confessional mass media are the area of the religious subculture existence. The confidence of Protestants to their publications is very high, though it combines with the critical and evaluating approach. The social subject is the most demanded by the Ukrainian Protestant media. The organized aid for the socially deprived is the main manifestation of the public position of Protestants in our
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spelling doaj-art-62b6945e24bc489d8ac1fe8578fd5dff2025-08-20T02:23:48ZengEastern European Instute of TheologyБогословські роздуми: Східноєвропейський журнал богословʼя2789-15692789-15772011-05-0112The Effectiveness of the Ukrainian Protestant Media: Results of a Sociological SurveyMaxim BALAKLITSKY0He is a candidate (doctor) in Philology and Associate Professor of the Karazin Department of Journalism at Kharkiv National University, as well as a doctoral student at the Shevchenko Institute of Journalism at Kyiv National University Secular and religious researchers, studying this subject, run together in the desire to determine how interesting the informational product to the secular audience is. The researches lack the look from inside such as studying the evaluation of the religious mass media by their main audience – members of religious organizations. To fill in this lacuna we carried out a psychological survey not only of the TV and radio, but also press and Internet Ukrainian Protestant mass media audience and staff. The carried out survey of the Protestant mass media staff and audience revealed that the religious mass media belong to the specialized types of publications. Their influence upon the target audience group, members of the religious community is deep and stable, at the same time the missionary potential is quite low. The complex of factors, which accompanies conversion, correspond with interpersonal and group, but not the mass communication. The confessional mass media are the area of the religious subculture existence. The confidence of Protestants to their publications is very high, though it combines with the critical and evaluating approach. The social subject is the most demanded by the Ukrainian Protestant media. The organized aid for the socially deprived is the main manifestation of the public position of Protestants in our http://reflections.eeit-edu.info/article/view/89732The Effectiveness of the Ukrainian Protestant MediaResults of a Sociological SurveyProtestant mass media in Ukraine
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The Effectiveness of the Ukrainian Protestant Media
Results of a Sociological Survey
Protestant mass media in Ukraine
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title_short The Effectiveness of the Ukrainian Protestant Media: Results of a Sociological Survey
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Results of a Sociological Survey
Protestant mass media in Ukraine
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