Information and Publishing Direction of Human Rights Protection of the Ukrainian Emigration Press of the Post-War Period (on the Example of the Journal «New Days», 1970–90)

V. Kovpak

Abstract


Research methodology. The leading methods of intelligence are the following: a modern critical analysis of political media discourse using categories – conceptual analysis, because the meanings are the structural elements of the main mega-concept – the ideas of the nation; the method of critical discourse analysis that enabled the integration of information and publishing support of political prisoners, dissident as a strategic direction of political journalism in the Ukrainian emigration journal «New Days» with extra linguistic factors mediating the interaction of communication participants.

Results. The analyzed publications presented the information-publishing direction of the human rights activities of the Ukrainian foreign press, which included obtaining and disseminating among the world community true information about the situation of Ukrainians in the Ukrainian SSR, on Ukrainian political prisoners, dissident movement, and so on. On the 70th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we have the same issues as the human rights movement in Ukraine (the movement of «Ukrainian political prisoner, Kremen’s disciple», «unprovoked», «converted Ukrainian Soviet intellectuals», «world conscience») and , at the same time, we need to update the experience of the Ukrainian emigration community during the time of the active defense of human rights and national freedoms, when, in general, more than 80 Ukrainian citizens are held in Russian prisons for their political views. The publishing strategy of the magazine made it possible to publicize the customs, difficulties, threats and other obstacles to the «anti-Soviet», Ukrainian publications, in particular, the loud information campaigns against the authors and their works and to resist them through the provided press congress; the revealing rhetoric of interviewed political prisoners, dissidents exposed through the press platform stunning facts from the «prison of nations», appealing to the «world conscience»; The metacognitive discovery of the leaders of the Ukrainian human rights movement’s opinions has proven the effectiveness of its information and publishing, external trends: in particular, the publication of dozens of articles in international journals, speeches in radio and television discussions, talks with dozens of leading people of the modern world, testimony to the Commissions of the American Congress, reports for Ukrainians and non-Ukrainians, writing letters to Amnesty International.

Novelty. Within the article, according to the classification of the directions of the human rights movement in Ukraine for A. Mykolayenko, the information and publishing support of political prisoners, dissident as a strategic direction of political journalism in the Ukrainian emigration journal «New Days» (1970-90), which created effective, alternative to the Soviets, flows of information and knowledge, meanings, thanks to the efficient collection of information, reliable sources and opportunities to publicize, process and distribute them.

The practical significance. The results of the research on information and communication activities of the human rights movement of post-war Ukrainian emigration can be used as a platform for the search for a matrix of state-building meanings and, accordingly, resistance strategies in the modern information-cognitive warfare, human rights information and publishing support of the contemporary prisoners of the Kremlin.

Key words: the information-publishing direction of the human rights movement, the journal «New Days», the strategy of journalism, the meanings.


References


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