Publications

Organizational crisis communication: A multivocal approach by Finn Frandsen and Winni Johansen, renowned crisis communication researchers from Aarhus University, could potentially grow to be a milestone work in the field for two reasons. First, it contributes to the integration of crisis management and crisis communication into a single multidisciplinary and multidimensional research area. Second, the authors set forward the theory of rhetorical arena and the multivocal approach to crisis communication as a complex and dynamic interaction of many voices beyond the organization in crisis. In addition to the above, Frandsen and Johansen pay particular attention to cultural differences that should be taken into consideration in crisis communication research and practice. Significantly, the book introduces the reader to a variety of case studies and examples of organizational crises and crisis communication in Denmark. Students and crisis communication scholars will also benefit from the detailed outline of preexisting theories and methods, and from the focus on debated and under-researched aspects of the field. Practitioners in their turn may also find the book useful though it is not a how-to guide but rather an invitation to critically reflect on managing crises in today’s complex environment.

The article provides a comparative analysis of reflection on the boundaries, functions and interactions of PR, marketing and integrated communications of Russian higher education teachers ((conventionally, theorists) and employees of PR agencies and PR departments of companies (conventionally practitioners). The problem of approaches to the definition of areas These disciplines are still relevant and have a certain impact on the Russian communicative practice.

within the framework of cultural discourse, the concepts of "brand" and "branding" are considered

Slowdown of the globalization especially in the aligning of the social standards creates conditions for bringing civilizational conflicts to the surface. It is premature to speak about formation of the full-scale civilizational fractures, though the borderlines are being outlines now. The civil war in Syria noticeably fastened the formation of such fractures and showed the mechanisms for their development. That makes considerable impact upon the New Eurasia. The structure and mechanisms of development of these proto-factures differ substantially from those analyzed and formulated before in fundamental studies. They include substantial factors that are results of developments in modern global political and economic system. The major factor in development of civilizational proto-factures though is evolution of the nature of social institutions and social links. That aspect is extremely important for the interests of Russia as well as for the socio-political developments in Eurasia

The emerging global economic crisis forms the conditionsfor drastic transformations of the very architecture of the world economy. That creates both opportunities and challenges for Russia.

The culture of hospitality is seen as a cultural phenomenon. Relevant practices are analyzed.

The phenomenon of business culture is analyzed. The history of the study of this phenomenon in the framework of cultural studies

Global transformations put to the agenda the necessity for the change in the economic geographical architecture of Russia in order to secure its access to the perspective centers of the global development. Th regions of the Big Volga and Caspian sea are now a priority. The sity of Saratov become  he potntially dominating and consolidating regional center/ 

The tragic death of John F.Kennedy was a major turningpint of the XX century that reflected the global military-political contradictions as well as domestic crisis of American politics

The genesis of culture is considered as the process of the emergence and development of gaming practices. The system of views on the game in cultural science is analyzed.

Сategory "image" is considered in the framework of cultural discourse

Intercultural communication is considered as a cultural form and as part of communication theory.

The tragic death of John F.Kennedy should be addressed not only within the framework of the dramatic changes that occured at the intermational arena in the beginning of the 1960s, but also from the polnt of view of the crisis of American establishment that was underway the the US. Also the internal transformations in the USSR should be considered.

Encyclopedia includes more than 150 articles on applied cultural studies. Reflects the theoretical and methodological foundations of applied cultural studies, its tools, concepts, subject areas, etc.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the role of the concept of “revolution” in the modern left discourse. Using the method of theoretical reduction, K.Chmel identifies three main currents in the modern left thought that determine the approaches of the left to the revolution in the context of the contemporary state of the world of politics and allude to such canonical left-wing philosophers as K.Marx, M.Heidegger and B.Spinoza. His hypothesis is that the failure of the left to define revolution stems from the lack of an adequate conceptual apparatus. If earlier the right had to borrow from the language of the left, today the opposite is true, and “constructions” of the left, in fact, do not go beyond the reaction to the victorious neoliberalism. Even the methods of the struggle of the left for their agenda are dominated by the system of liberal democracy rather than by the ideas formulated by the left movement itself. This applies not only to the electoral resistance in the form of elections, but also to non-electoral resistance, the highest form of which is protests with a limited negative agenda. As a result, there is no place for revolution with its pathos of liberation and radical social transformations either at the level of theory or in practice. According to the author, the reasons for the inability of the modern left political thought to define revolution in the context of the contemporary state of the world politics lie in the refusal of the left to turn to the concepts with a positive tone and their reorientation towards the strategy of providing a response to the dominant right political project.

Defined the concept of "advertising" in the framework of cultural discourse

The article is devoted to the analysis of the city brand identification, which uses attractions, within the framework of the semiotic paradigm based on the semiotics of tourist attractions of D.Mccannel and the semiotic model of the city brand by Jiyoung Yoon. The attraction is considered as a means of representation of the territory and a communicative pattern, visual and graphic characteristics and features of brand identification as the most important element of the semiotic model of the city brand are singled out separately.

Public relations are considered as part of the cultural field, as a cultural practice and socio-cultural technology.

The development of modern informational society based upon the technologies of the integrated communications creates the new opportunities for the development of the sector of finances. At the same time specific and potentially risky trends emerge.

The criss of the "flat world" model of the global development confronts the humankind with a nymber of complex challenges. In the future post-crisis world the global development would proceed through a more complex and multivector models.