Lithuanian politicians' blogs structure in 2008

Lithuanian Politicians' Blogs Structure in 2008 Summary The forms of Internet usage for communication are constantly changing, more and more opportunities of its appliance emerge. Digital communities are forming in the Internet, using several ways of communication. Blogs are one of the ways for digital communities to communicate. On one hand, blogs of politicians are supposed to have a huge potential of communication, on another hand, the research show, that this potential is not really availed. In many countries politicians are held as a separate, closed caste, not understanding the problems of ordinary individual and not communicating with the society. This is probably the factor that influences low participation of citizens in the political activities. Because of this crisis, more often perverted process of political communication is being blamed. Blogs can be used for the communication between politicians and auditorium and for attraction of new people into political activity. The paper tends to clear out how the politicians in Lithuania, in 2008 formed the structure of blogs, if they were seeking to avail the possibilities of communication in the blogs and if they were linking their blogs with any digital communities