As paradoxical as it may seem, until the release of the media from the burden of “party
leadership”, it would seem that there was more clarity in the conception of the place, the role, but
also the typology of the youth media.
The first question marks on the development of youth media appear with the initiation of the
Gorbachev glasnost and perestroika policy.
New information technologies have turned the old system of “information and propaganda”
upside down. Thus, before the experts and researchers of the media sector, a vast field of
research opens up. And defining the media for youth.
