Monitoring of news web resources (стр. 1 )

Appendix 1

MONITORING OF NEWS WEB RESOURCES:

Monitored resources: , , , Sailau. info, Azattyq. org, , .

Monitoring period: March 7 to 13

QUANTITATIVE INDICATORS

Number of publications: 70

Number of comments on mentioned publications: 250

Number of times the candidates were mentioned (in articles and corresponding comments): 521

Rating of the presidential candidates based on number of times they were mentioned in online mass media (articles + comments):

1st place – N. Nazarbayev was mentioned 324 times or 62 %

2nd place – M. Eleusizov was mentioned 104 times or 20 %

3rd place – G. Kasymov was mentioned 57 times or 11 %

4th place – Z. Akhmetbekov was mentioned 36 times or 7%.

Resource/Candidate	Total number of published materials	Total number of times the candidates were mentioned	Akhmetbekov	Kasymov	Nazarbayev	Eleusizov
Number of times the candidates were mentioned in articles / comments on them
	21	108	18	19	45	26
	20	189	4	8	131	46
	13	39	0	0	26	13
Sailau. info	0	10	0	0	10	0
Azattyq. org	2	54	0	0	48	6
	14	121	14	30	64	13
	0	0	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	70	521	36	57	324	104
Place			4	3	1	2
%			7%	11%	62%	20%

QUALITATIVE INDICATORS

The tone of the resource materials. Ratings of the presidential candidates.

From March 7 to 13, the above mentioned web resources were estimated to publish 70 materials, from which 67 used the neutral tone, 2 – positive and 1 – negative.

Rating of the presidential candidates based on the number of neutral publications

The tone of comments on the resource materials. Ratings of the presidential candidates.

Remarks on the monitoring methods

The candidates were ranked based on:

а) Number of times the candidates’ names/nicknames were mentioned in the comments on all publications,

b) Ratio of number of times the candidates’ names/nicknames were mentioned in each tone (positive, neutral, negative) to the total number of positive, neutral and negative comments (%).

1) а. Rating of the candidates based on number of times they were mentioned in neutral comments

b. Rating of the candidates based on ratio of neutral comments to the total number of comments (%)

2) а. Rating of the candidates based on number of times they were mentioned in positive comments

b. Rating of the candidates based on ratio of positive comments to the total number of comments (%)

3) а. Rating of the candidates based on number of times they were mentioned in negative comments

b. Rating of the candidates based on ratio of negative comments to the total number of comments (%)

QUANTITY AND TONE OF THE PUBLICATIONS AND COMMENTS ON EACH PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE

AKHMETBEKOV

Publications Total number of publications – 6 Neutral – 5 Positive - 0 Negative - 1

Comments Total number of comments – 11 Neutral – 3 Positive - 3 Negative – 5

KASYMOV

Publications Total number of publications – 6 Neutral – 5 Positive – 1 Negative - 0

Comments Total number of comments – 29 Neutral – 7 Positive - 10 Negative – 12

NAZARBAYEV

Publications Total number of publications - 42 Neutral – 41 Positive – 1 Negative - 0

Comments Total number of comments – 191 Neutral – 19 Positive – 114 Negative – 58

ELEUSIZOV

Publications Total number of publications - 16 Neutral – 16 Positive – 0 Negative - 0

Comments Total number of comments – 19 Neutral – 3 Positive – 7 Negative – 9

Appendix 2