Media Research in the Internet

Kinga Czuczor (Hungary)

• Print Media
  If you are looking for media in a sense of reading news from various newspapers, for example from Hungary on the web sites: http://www.hungary.com, where I could find Hungarian or even American organizations, publishing companies, reporting on news, events, conferences, etc.
  
  I was also using the web pages of daily newspapers and media organizations, like the web pages of the New York Times http://www.nytimes. com or the web site of the "Thinktank" program of the PBS television http://www.thinktank.com
  
  Updated information and archive documents are also available on the web pages of these media organizations.
• Media Theory
  I did research related to the media also in a sense of media theories.
  
  Debates, disputes, conferences, publications, articles and interactive discussions about different "Points of View", past and upcoming events. The web pages: http://www.media.mit.edu is called a Media Lab, and as the subtitles indicate, it contains - Information, Research (pointers to research groups and projects in the Lab), New and Noteworthy (new and especially interesting things to be found on the Media lab server, on-line projects of the Lab), Related Servers, etc.
• 1996 U.S. Presidential Campaign
  
  Another field of my research focused on the 1996 Presidential Campaign. The web site:http://www.electionline.com can serve as a leading source of information on the presidential election, it offers updated details on the election race (issues, candidates, schedules).
  
  The web sitehttp://www.vote-smart.org/campaign_96/presidential/path.html covers the Schedules of Campaign Appearances, Election News (ABC News, The Washington Post & Newsweek, CBS News, CNN/Time, NBC News and MSN, National journal & the American Political Network, USA Today, US News & World Report). There is also introductory Information (on the US Government, on the background on the American Political Process), Campaign Tactics and Strategy, Political Polling (survey research and related nformation, election monitor, gallop polls), The Inauguration, discussions concerning: "Funding A Campaign", etc. From the project "Vote Smart" we can also get details on particular candidates listed by parties.
  
  In preparation for the 1996 presidential Voting Season 'Internet Publishing Technologies' is providing a collection of candidate information and links to various government and party related sites throughout the web: http://www.ipt.com/vote/.
  
  Besides the global information on the 1996 presidential campaign, the presidential candidates introduced a new way of public relation: the official web sites of the candidates. For example the official home page of the Republican candidate Pat Buchanan is:http://www.buchanan.org or of Steve Forbes:http://www.forbes96.com. These home pages contain the biography, program, schedule and speech descriptions of the particular candidate, including press releases, news articles and discussions relating to the candidate.
• Other web pages covering the above issues:
  
  http://www.pbs.org
  http://www.pbs.org/demoeracy/dempresdebates.html
  http://wwwl.pbs.org/newshour/bb/eleetion/president_money_2-12.html
  ftp ://e-span.org
  http://www.yahoo.eom/Government/PolS_Eleetions/Presidential_Election
  http://www.politicsusa.com/PoliticsUSA/campaign96
  http://www.campaign96.org
  http://atr.org/heritage/whatsnew/press.htm
  http://www-polisci.tamu.edu/eps/presret
  http://www.loc.gov
  http ://www.bell-atl.com/wschool/html/sept/sptann.htm
  http://www.lsu.edu/guests/poli/public_html/1996camp.html
  http://www.uniontrib.com/polities/campaign/profiles/q-a.html