Image of Armenian Diaspora in Azerbaijani Online Media: on the case of Day.az

Gayane Harutyunyan

gayane.harutyunyan@gmail.com 

Published in «Հանրային հաղորդակցություն: Արդի մարտահրավերնեն ու զարգացման հեռանկարները Հայասատան 2013: գիտաժողովի նյութեր», Երևան, Էդիթ պրինտ 2014, էջ 183-193

Nowadays, when online media has gained its unique place in communicative field, it is getting more and more important to study what kind of information is being spread through online media. The importance of studying informational flows spread by online media is getting more significance in case when there is no any other main source of communication, because in that case online media plays the main role of constructing and reproducing certain images, which form not only perception but also a potential reaction toward a certain object.

Current political situation between Armenia and Azerbaijan doesn’t give opportunity for a formation of direct communications in a larger scale between the two states and nations, still certain type of communication takes place in online media and thus it becomes one of the main sources of information about opposite side. That is why it is important to understand what kind of image is being is created by Azerbaijanian online media.  (more…)

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