Educational and Professional Programme “Online Journalism and Blogging”: Interdisciplinary Content of the Speciality “Information, Library and Archival Management”

Abstract

The aim of the study is to identify and substantiate the list of competencies required by a specialist within the interdisciplinary major “Online Journalism and Blogging” in the field of study “Information, Library, and Archival Management”. The research methodology is based on the use of a set of general scientific and special methods: analysis and synthesis, the method of comparative analysis for comparing the standards of higher education, which form the subject field of activity of a future specialist majoring in “Online Journalism and Blogging” in the field of study “Information, Library, and Archival Management”; the method of content analysis in the study of texts and documents; a hypothetical method for justifying the need for online journalism in the activities of institutions and the infrastructure of the document and information sphere. The scientific novelty consists in identifying the list of competencies required by a specialist within the interdisciplinary major “Online Journalism and Blogging” in the field of study “Information, Library and Archival Management” and substantiating the main focus of the educational programme, which is outlined as the formation and development of professional competence in providing press strategies in various forms of their implementation in the digital social and information environment as an integrative activity that includes information (document)-communicative and journalistic components. Conclusions. Increasing the competitiveness of modern specialists is normalised today by the introduction of interdisciplinary educational programmes into the educational process. The offer of the educational and professional programme “Online Journalism and Blogging” in the field of study “Information, Library and Archival Management” provides for mastering the knowledge related to the programme subject areas 061 Journalism and 029 Information, library and archival management, which determine its subject area, and the integration of educational content in these fields. The projected activity of the future specialist in the educational and professional programme “Online Journalism and Blogging” is within the framework of such basic concepts as “information resource” – “social communications” – “information product” in their interconnection and mediation by the use of digital technologies. The main focus of the educational programme and major is the formation and development of professional competence in providing press strategies in various forms of their implementation in the digital social and information environment as an integrative activity that includes information (document)-communicative and journalistic components.