Coverage of Election Campaigns in the Media and Electoral Interest

Authors

  • Aleksandr Aleksandrovich YEFANOV Orenburg State Pedagogical University

Keywords:

electorate, electoral interest, electoral activity, election campaign, elections, mass media, Orenburg region.

Abstract

The article discusses a strategy for covering the election campaign in mass media from the viewpoint of their impact on electoral interest. The research objects are electoral processes in Russia and United States of America in 2016. The studies were conducted with the use of materials from news, several public and political programs on federal and regional TV channels, as well as posts made by Orenburg region residents on social networks. The applied methods were quantitative content analysis and discourse analysis.

About author

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich YEFANOV

Orenburg State Pedagogical University

Candidate of Sociological Sciences; Senior Lecturer, Department of Journalism, Orenburg State Pedagogical University

Published

04.02.2020

How to Cite

YEFANOV , A. A. (2020). Coverage of Election Campaigns in the Media and Electoral Interest. Information Society, (1), 36-40. Retrieved from http://infosoc.iis.ru/article/view/244

Issue

No. 1 (2017): ICT for citizens and the state

Section

Information society and mass media