Discursive Media Techniques in the Russian and British Newspapers. Representations of National Identity

The paper demonstrates the theatrical model of mass media in the instance a genuine of an actual plot (formation of national identity) in the press of the examined countries. Within the framework of this model of interaction of the mass media, authorities and the public there coexist the practices of “spectacle” and “carnival”. Jan Ekecrantz examines these two forms as the ideally typical models, making distinctions, while our purpose is to check them in real practice, to find principles of their coexistence and osculation using the concrete examples.