Mass media can play a key role in enabling citizens to monitor the actions of incumbents and to use this information in their voting decisions. This can lead to government which is more accountable and responsive to its citizens’ needs. In spite of the intuitive plausibility of the proposition, there is comparatively little work in the political economy literature that scrutinizes the role and ...

Economic and political globalisation are inevitably accompanied by a kind of ideological globalisation, a transnational ideology which legitimises them. In other words, an ideology to justify, on the one hand, the minimisation of the state’s role in the economy —which, in a market economy system implies a corresponding maximisation of the role of the market and private capital— and, on the othe...

complicated situation in Ukraine’s modern politics and mass media requires an examination of the historical background, in particular the situation of Ukrainian mass media on the eve of the elections to the parliament of Ukraine on 28 October 2012. he main objective of the study is to analyze the activities and development tendencies of Ukrainian mass media on the eve of parliamentary elections...

objections: today, one of the issues that perpetuate social and sustainable relationships plays an effective role in society, is social capital. the main purpose of this article, the role of mass media measurement in increasing social capital among households, the city is khormoj. theoretical frameworkfrom theorists and social capital in particular is bordiou. four indicators of social capital ...

In Internet-based social networks, the nodes have the most pivotal role in the processes and outcomes of the networks. Whether they pay attention to a message in the network or ignore it defines the fate of the message. One message is shared and re-shared by millions of users and another is left forgotten. The current study tries to shed light on one aspect of the role of the users in a social ...