media typology

The article considers a part of the author’s typology of printed media based on the typological division of modern culture as a value space in which media inevitably function. The author extracts correlated elements of ‘quality periodicals – traditional culture’, defines the typological features of quality publications in their relationship with the properties of traditional culture.

The article defines system features of a special type of periodical that emerged in the early XXth century – a journal-manifesto. The typological assessment of the first representative of this type of media – of the journal Mir Iskusstva (World of Art) – is made.