Title of the article:

EFFECTIVE READABILITY OF NEWS: COMPARATIVE ANALYSES OF RUSSIAN AND FOREIGN ONLINE NEWSPAPERS

Author(s):

Valerii L. Muzykant

F. Mfarrej

Information about the author/authors

Valerii L. Muzykant — DSc in Sociology, Professor, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Mikluho-Maklaya St., 10/2, 119198 Moscow, Russia. E-mail: vmouzyka @mail.ru

Fadi Mfarrej — Graduate Student, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Mikluho-Maklaya St., 10/2, 119198 Moscow, Russia. E-mail: Fadi.mfarej@hotmail.com

Section

Theory and history of culture

Year

2018

Volume

Vol. 50

Pages

pp. 8–21

Received

February 27, 2018

Date of publication

December 28, 2018

Index UDK

008

Index BBK

76.02(2)+71

Abstract

Data on the audience proves to be the main value on the Internet statistics market, while the issue of informational messages is gradually coming to the forefront both in Russia and abroad. There are materials intended for the middle class, some of them — for professional athletes only. The more precise the targeting, the more effective the texts are. The same happens with the manufacturers of goods, which have to know their buyer by sight. Basic minimum parameters are gender, age, financial condition and income. At the same time, the modern promotion of mediatexts is impossible without an effectively executed layout, if it concerns print mass media. Composition is the art of orderly arrangement of individual elements into a unit, and is applicable to everything that includes more than one element. If the symmetry balances the elements of the composition, then even static arrangement of elements in space is capable of stimulating the imagination in the presence of parallel lines or compositionally arranged points in it. Moreover, the organization and composition have common nature: the first generates the second.

Keywords

readability, print mass media, composition, mediatexts, layout of geometric form, editorial, text direction, sentence structure, subscribers of the paper version, spelling errors.

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