| Abstract [eng] |
The aim of this paper is to research the political attitudes of FACEBOOK users in Poland. By developing the topic of this paper not only problems related with political attitudes are discussed but also the Russian propaganda narratives and other social variables are solidified. Therefore, the aim is to verify the influence of Russian propaganda (if there is any) on attitude of FACEBOOK users in Poland. It is also aimed to find out the influence of social variables like: age, income, education, social status. Propaganda has been attracting the attention of foreign researchers for a long time. For instance, P. Taylor, E. Bernays have researched the impact of propaganda, G. Jowett, V. O’Donnell, H. Lasswell found out the different research models for propaganda analysis. Moreover, the significant research on political attitude, the influence of Russian propaganda has been done by Lithuanian professors in 2017. The political attitudes of Poles are found out by researchers of Chatnam House, Pew Research Center and other. The results of this paper have been received by doing statistical analysis. Graphics of frequency, box-and-whisker are combined in this paper. Also, the regression model is applied. Not only is the statistics of the gathered data important but also the interpretation of it. The results of the research shows that Russian propaganda narratives regarding to European Union, NATO or Ukraine-Poland relationships are not established among FACEBOOK users in Poland. It should be noted that despite the fact that Russia seeks to set Polish citizens against the European Union, however, 71.1 % of all respondents support the European Union and 91.4 % — NATO. According to respondents, Russia is the most unfriendly state for Poland (85.8 %). It should also be noted that usually such political attitudes are influenced by income, age and social status. The study also revealed that more educated people are more likely to use alternative sources of foreign news, and less educated people will say that the Russian media is objective. Also, the research shows that 92.7 % of all respondents are faced the propaganda. Most respondents associated propaganda with manipulation, brainwashing, persuasion and some with a certain political party or state, i.e. mostly with the "Law and Justice" party, Russia. |
