Mediocracy - political communication in the mass media era

The aim of this master thesis is to analyse how Czech political parties used social network to political communication before election in year 2013. The work tries to define the basic concepts of political marketing, political communication and new, modern forms of it associated with the Internet and social networks. In the analytical part I analyse Facebook profiles of selected parties. The work is complemented by scans of profiles, graphs and tables, which can help to understand the analysis. The analysis uses data from the annual reports of the parties, the publication of the Institute of Political Marketing, and most of its research interviews