INFORMATION-POLITICAL BEHAVIOR AS OBJECT OF RESEARCH OF POLITICAL COMMUNICATION STUDIES
Noting the discrepancy of opportunities of modern man to satisfy their information needs in terms of multiple complications of the information space and the citizens' attention to the policy, the author proposes to pay particular attention to the political communication studies on the processes of information interaction of the citizen with the politics. As the object of analysis are encouraged to use information - political behavior, understood as a mode of action, the totality of the efforts of the individual to obtain, assimilation and use of information, its transmission and distribution in the society in the implementation of protection and realization of their political interests and values. The evaluation some of a number of existing models of information retrieval of human activity and analyzing the most common shades of political activities, it is proposed to allocate the following types of information - political behavior. Based on the study data, conducted by the author among students and teachers RANEPA the spring of 2012, the article draws conclusions about the existence of the relationship between the political activity of citizens and their information - political behavior, as well as the proposed grading of types of information -political behavior of the degree of activity.