DIY Media in Modern Russia: Specifics and Development Trends

Student: Sokolova Anastasiya

Supervisor: Yegor Isayev

Educational Programme: Journalism (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2016

With development of internet and new technologies most part of printed issues came to net, because in such a way manufacturers usually reach a bigger coverage of audience and also economy resources on producing. DIY media are independent from sponsors and number of audience, which are also coming to the net. Zines,which were printed on paper, are now existing in internet, some of them simply disappear. The aim of my research is to find out how DIY community changed in last 30 years, to find and analyze tendencies and changes in spreading, production and ideology of DIY media in Russia.

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