THEORETICAL LEGAL CONTENT OF MASS MEDIA LEGISLATION CONCEPTS

• Main Authors: A. A. Fatyanov, Yu. M. Saranchuk
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Government of the Russian Federation, Financial University 2017-10-01
• Series: Финансы: теория и практика
• Subjects: media information; mass medium; official information; website; official site; printed publication; electronic (online) publication; domain name
• Online Access: https://financetp.fa.ru/jour/article/view/43
• ISSN: 2587-5671; 2587-7089

Nowadays, when the development of information technologies has erased legal borders of countries for the movement of information flows, there arises a problem of providing legislative support of information freedoms of citizens along with streamlining the enforcement practice. In this connection, the legal regulation of electronic mass media, both registered in the law-prescribed manner and unregistered, containing most diverse information on political, social, entertainment or highly specialized issues for the unrestricted public domain, is becoming increasingly important. One of the most significant aspects of research in the field of legal regulation of mass media in the Internet includes the use of a categorical apparatus. The mass media legislation contains definitions of such concepts as media information, mass medium, various types of mass media including printed and electronic (online) media.However,as the practice shows,this categorical apparatus needs to be updated to conform to the current practices of production, distribution and consumption of media information, while the «media information» and «mass media» concepts have become not as closely interlinked as they were at the time the law in question was adopted. The paper analyzes the theoretical legal content of the concepts of «mass medium», «official information», «website», «official site» and a number of others; furthermore, it studies the reflection of the categorical apparatus in the Russian and foreign legislations,gives the theoretical rationale of the need to improve the legal regulation of mass media in the Internet along with recommendations aimed at improving the efficiency of the legal regulation of the area of research, and exposes contradictions in the legal regulation of electronic media.