Can Automated Strategies Work for PSM in a Network Society? Engaging Digital Intermediation for Informed Citizenry

While much is known about the micro-level predictors of political knowledge, there have been relatively few efforts to study the potential macro-level causes of knowledge. Seeking to improve our understanding of country-based variation in knowledge, this article demonstrates that individuals have an easier time finding and interpreting information in political environments that provide the public with greater opportunities to engage, observe, and learn about the political process. To investigate that possibility, the article analyzes how the procedural quality of the political process affects political knowledge. Using data from the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems and the Worldwide Governance Indicators Project, survey analyses show that the transparency and responsiveness of a political system indeed influence the public’s information about political parties and, to a lesser extent, the amount of factual knowledge retained by survey respondents. In other words, the quality of democratic governance affects how much individuals know about the political process.

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TOPOLOGY OF POLITICAL COMMUNICATIONS IN SPACE NETWORK SOCIETY: METHODOLOGY OF ANALYSIS AND PRACTICE

Central Russian Journal of Social Sciences ◽

10.22394/2071-2367-2021-16-4-58-70 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (4) ◽

pp. 58-70

Author(s):

O.G. SHCHENINA ◽

Keyword(s):

System Approach ◽

Space Form ◽

Interdisciplinary Approach ◽

Network Society ◽

The Political ◽

Space Network ◽

Political Communications ◽

Basic Concepts ◽

Methodological Approaches ◽

Analysis System

The purpose of the article is to study the topology of political communications in the conditions of the formation of a network society. The topological context of the study of political communications involves an appeal to the basic concepts of topology (space, form, time), as well as the phenomena of morphogenesis and homeomorphism. The main content of the article includes the study of a number of theoretical and methodological approaches of political topology in the communicative and communication perspectives. The author is based on the application of methods of content analysis, discourse analysis, system approach, network approach to identify topological aspects of political communications.As a result, the analysis carried out by the author showed that significant changes in the political space are taking place in the network society on the basis of technological and humanitarian innovations (including under the influence of informatization, networking, digitalization), as well as forms and practices of political communications are being transformed. An interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of political communications allows us to expand the range of their research.

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