To the Question about the Dynamics of the Processes of Interaction "Voters - the Media"

Abstract

This article explores the problem addressing the problem of the dynamics of the processes of influencing voters’ audience from a variety of sources, including television, network and print media. Any theory, in whatever sphere of human being it exists, performs three important functions: description, explanation, prediction. The same applies to theories that reveal the essence of ways and means of political communications. The paper considers three main sociological methodologies for assessing the role of the media in the process of influencing voter audiences. The author determined that in connection with the globalization and technological progress that has taken place, the traditional media lost the monopoly on information, and, in fact, ceased to be the «fourth power», and voters largely independently determine media content. The interaction of traditional television and print media (very often administratively managed) with the decentralized network helps to form a political agenda. Traditional media identify specific public inquiries generated in online communities, and hand them over to the «pper» levels of government.