The article is a prelude to a depend consideration about the role and significance of blogs for political communication in Poland. The starting point question was: what are the real, not declared (proclaimed), functions of politicians’ blogs? Conducted empirical survey indicated that political blogs are (most often) the instruments of creating political image. It seems that politicians are not deeply interested in blogging, and they decide themselves to run a blog just because image reasons. They do not tend to satisfy their communication or contact needs that way. Therefore it is quite hard to claim that politicians’ blogs initiate some essential changes for political communication in Poland in 21th century.
Predominance, competition, symbiosis – deliberations on relations between electronic media and politics. In the world of contemporary liberal democracies electronic media are frequently perceived as instruments to implement changes into social and political reality. It goes beyond a shadow of a doubt that the contemporary political communication is performed mostly by means of media, especially the new media. The analyses below attempt to inquire into the relations between electronic media and politics through the prism of three relational categories: predominance, competition, symbiosis.
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