- •Introduction
- •Subject of the study.
- •Purpose of the study
- •Significance of the study
- •Hypothesis
- •Assumptions
- •Limitations
- •Method of the study
- •Research design
- •Sampling method
- •Case study
- •Theories Of Political Communication
- •Structural Functionalism
- •Other theories
- •Mass society theory
- •General model of political communication process
- •Political communication and modernization
- •Theory of a two- (multi-) stage communication in connection with the global Internet
- •Post-industrial society theory as information society
- •Media theory and modern political communication researches
- •Concepts, forms and methods of political communication on the Internet
- •Telecommunication revolution and the emergence of the Internet
- •The Internet as the environment of social communication.
- •Promising directions of political communication development on the Internet.
- •The use of the Internet as a new electronic media.
- •Political campaigns on the Internet.
- •Creating an Internet-based "electronic government”
- •3.4 The concept of "electronic democracy"
- •The Internet strategy of the Russian federation government
- •Findings and evaluation: The Role of the Internet in Implementation of Effective Political Communication: Russian Experience.
- •Channels of getting political information
- •Political campaigns on the Internet
- •Daily problems with the authorities
- •Public expectations
- •Conclusion and Further suggestions
- •Conclusion.
- •Further suggestions.
- •Internet resources
Method of the study
This study will use methods of qualitative analysis in representation the results. In the social sciences, “quantitative research refers to the systematic empirical investigation of social phenomena via statistical, mathematical or computational techniques” (Hunter & Leahey, 2008; p. 290). Quantitative methods of data analysis can be a great value to the researcher who is attempting to draw meaningful results from a large body of qualitative data. The main beneficial aspect is that it provides the means to separate out the large number of confounding factors that often obscure the main qualitative findings.
Generally, it is possible to allocate several steps in qualitative analysis applying:
The generation of models, theories and hypotheses;
The development of instruments and methods for measurement;
Experimental control and manipulation of variables;
Collection of empirical data;
Modeling and analysis of data;
Evaluation of results (Hunter & Leahey, 2008).
This study based on this qualitative analysis logic.
In order to achieve the maximum authenticity, technic of “questionnaire” used in this work. “Questionnaire is a research instrument consisting of a series of questions and other prompts for the purpose of gathering information from respondents” (Foddy, 1994; p. 34). Several types of questionnaire could be found in academic literature (Kreuter, Presser & Tourangeau, 2008): contingency questions (a question that is answered only if the respondent gives a particular response to a previous question. This avoids asking questions of people that do not apply to them (for example, asking men if they have ever been pregnant); matrix questions (identical response categories are assigned to multiple questions. The questions are placed one under the other, forming a matrix with response categories along the top and a list of questions down the side. This is an efficient use of page space and respondents’ time); closed ended questions (respondents’ answers are limited to a fixed set of responses. Most scales are closed ended. Other types of closed ended questions include: yes/no questions - the respondent answers with a “yes” or a “no”; multiple choice - the respondent has several option from which to choose; scaled questions - responses are graded on a continuum; open ended questions (no options or predefined categories are suggested. The respondent supplies their own answer without being constrained by a fixed set of possible responses). Examples of types of open ended questions include: completely unstructured; word association - words are presented and the respondent mentions the first word that comes to mind; sentence completion - respondents complete an incomplete sentence; story completion - respondents complete an incomplete story; picture completion - respondents fill in an empty conversation balloon; thematic apperception test - respondents explain a picture or make up a story about what they think is happening in the picture (Kreuter, Presser & Tourangeau, 2008). For the purposes of this study, closed ended questions with multiple choices will be applied.