Internet-based political communication research : illustrations, challenges & innovations

Jankowski, Nicholas W. (author), Van Selm, Martine (author)

Political communication research is increasingly concerned with the study of political life in online environments. Some recent investigations make use of Internet-based tools for the research process: for project management, for data collection and analysis, and for the preparation and publication of findings. In these respects, political communication research reflects methodological transformations underway across the social sciences, often known as e-Science and e-Research. This article explores aspects of that transformation through examination of a range of studies concerned with political discourse, political participation, and election campaigns in which the online environment is accentuated. We reflect on four study features project management, research designs, sampling, and data visualisation. In a series of illustrative studies, we consider challenges in undertaking political communication research in network environments utilising Internetbased tools. Finally, we introduce the contributions to this journal theme issue, placing the articles within an overall framework of concern regarding Internet-based political communication research.

• Language: English
• Work type: Not categorized
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Year: 2008
• Number of pages: Str. 5-16
• Numbering: Vol. 15, no. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-74420
• UDC: 316.77:303
• ISSN on article: 1318-3222
• COBISS.SI-ID: 27432541
• Publication date in RUL: 21.12.2015

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Javnost = The public
• Shortened title: Javnost
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis, European Institute for Communication and Culture
• ISSN: 1318-3222
• COBISS.SI-ID: 40119808

Secondary language

• Language: Unknown

Abstract

Raziskovanje političnega komuniciranja je vse bolj usmerjeno na proučevanje političnega življenja v online okoljih. Sodobno raziskovanje uporablja internetna orodja za vodenje projektov, zbiranje in analizo podatkov ter pripravljanje in objavo rezultatov. Raziskovanje političnega komuniciranja odraža metodološke spremembe, ki se dogajajo v družbenih vedah in se o njih govori kot o e-znanosti in e-raziskovanju. Članek obravnava posamezne vidike teh sprememb, ki zadevajo politični diskurz, politično participacijo in volilne kampanje, in štiri področja: vodenje projektov, načrt raziskovanja, vzorčenje in vizualno predstavljanje podatkov, ki jih ilustrira s primeri empiričnih raziskav.