Media potential of public events as an object of journalistic reflection

Abstract

The article outlines the research field of public events as an object of interdisciplinary discourse, defining the content and the structural nature of the concept of «public event» through the optics of generic procedures of Alain Badiou and a social analysis of Pierre Bourdieu; draws attention to the need for the production of synthesis methodology for studying public events in modern Ukraine; plans development prospects of traditional and new media in the context of cultural, recreational and educational public events’ topics. The author proposes to consider public events as a representative/determinant/catalyze environment, which updates communication gaps in the period of social transformation and opens space for journalistic interpretations