Remembering and forgetting in representation of territories in e-media

Abstract

The article considers nodal points of territory representation in mass-media texts dealing with cultural thematics. Our analysis is based on texts from both Moldovan media sources (self-presentation) and from Russian ones (representation of the “other”), published from January 2011 through December 2015. Representations of cities (the cities of Gagauzia are taken as an example), countries (Moldova in the Russian media), regions (conventional “East” and “West”) are analyzed in this article. Within representations of territories in mass-media we identifed such nodal points as historical memory, preservation of culture and language, multiethnic character of spaces. We also identifed nodal points common to two of the three levels: sports and religious themes for the cities and the country, the borders of the “West” and the “East” for the levels of the country and the regions).