ANALYSIS OF PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN 2010 IN USENET (PL.SOC.POLITYKA
DISCUSSION GROUP
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w Zakładzie Psychologii i Socjologii Polityki Instytutu Nauk Politycznych
Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Publication date: 2020-01-24
Studia Politologiczne 2011;21
ABSTRACT
This paper contains considerations over polish Usenet political culture in the
2010 presidential campaign. Discussion group pl.soc.polityka became the object
of analysis. The first part of paper focuses on the scope and forms of influence
exerted by technical environment of Usenet groups on functioning of society
– dynamics, quantity and quality of social interactions. In the next part attention
was given to the most important dimension of Internet political culture – language.
Reconstruction of the lingual aspects of perception of reality and study of norms
and values prevailing in discussion group was carried out in this part. Selected
aspects of sociolect (social dialect) were also analyzed. The last part of the article
focuses on content-related dimension of discussion in pl.soc.polityka discussion
group. Carried out analysis encompasses both quantitative and qualitative aspects
in accordance with established standard of Internet inquiery. The article ends with
considerations about role of Usenet discussion groups in democratic discourse.