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The number of Internet users has grown rapidly over last 8 years and at the moment embraces more than one fifth of world's population. By no means, Internet becomes more important in the terms of communication, searching for information, working or resting. This also encouraged growing number of companies to present themselves on the internet prior to taking care of advertising campaigns, since being online in nowadays means existing. Therefore, not that it was a great surprise to observe the appearance of online sites for well-known business corporations or to meet the online versions of public newspapers. Free and independent Internet from the very beginning meant open possibilities for every individual with an access to the computer network to express itself, to take part in public debates and to have a chance to influence the authorities in order to accomplish the mission of public interest. Nevertheless, Internet also meant new opportunities to develop the main element of democratic society and state – it was a chance for public sphere to come back into force, because traditional means of media have been disappointing lately due to the process where the main subject public discourse and debate was replaced by tiresome political performance. The main objective of this thesis is to reveal the background for analysis to uncover the role of Internet media for creating the discourse online, and also what the results on how the Internet news portal of Lithuania www.delfi.lt and www.lrytas.lt conform to the concept of public sphere could be found. The quantitative and qualitative content analysis was carried on in order to find the answer on the issue what kind of information is dominative in the first place. The research analysis was carried out in three stages. First to be the one to show the results on the segmentation of the topics throughout the columns reveal that most of the articles of both online news portals lie into Breaking news column with the second and third to be Lifestyle and Business review accordingly. Second stage of analysis happened to be the one to uncover how the online news portals conform to the concept of public sphere. The results revealed that the dominative part of information falls under infotainment category, while it does conform to the public sphere discourse in part. The last stage of the research analysis was carried out in order to reveal what topics are the most popular among the readership. Therefore, 10% of most commented articles were analyzed. The results revealed that the despite the fact that the majority of articles belong to breaking news column, they fall under infotainment category and does conform to the concept of public sphere only in part. Summarizing the research, the flowing statement can be made: after 10% of most commented articles were analyzed, the trend of infotainment category articles, which cannot be unambiguously accredited as conforming to the concept of the theory of J.Habermas and the critical school, was observed.

The number of Internet users has grown rapidly over last 8 years and at the moment embraces more than one fifth of world's population. By no means, Internet becomes more important in the terms of communication, searching for information, working or resting. This also encouraged growing number of companies to present themselves on the internet prior to taking care of advertising campaigns, since being online in nowadays means existing. Therefore, not that it was a great surprise to observe the appearance of online sites for well-known business corporations or to meet the online versions of public newspapers. Free and independent Internet from the very beginning meant open possibilities for every individual with an access to the computer network to express itself, to take part in public debates and to have a chance to influence the authorities in order to accomplish the mission of public interest. Nevertheless, Internet also meant new opportunities to develop the main element of democratic society and state – it was a chance for public sphere to come back into force, because traditional means of media have been disappointing lately due to the process where the main subject public discourse and debate was replaced by tiresome political performance. The main objective of this thesis is to reveal the background for analysis to uncover the role of Internet media for creating the discourse online, and also what the results on how the Internet news portal of Lithuania www.delfi.lt and www.lrytas.lt conform to the concept of public sphere could be found. The quantitative and qualitative content analysis was carried on in order to find the answer on the issue what kind of information is dominative in the first place. The research analysis was carried out in three stages. First to be the one to show the results on the segmentation of the topics throughout the columns reveal that most of the articles of both online news portals lie into Breaking news column with the second and third to be Lifestyle and Business review accordingly. Second stage of analysis happened to be the one to uncover how the online news portals conform to the concept of public sphere. The results revealed that the dominative part of information falls under infotainment category, while it does conform to the public sphere discourse in part. The last stage of the research analysis was carried out in order to reveal what topics are the most popular among the readership. Therefore, 10% of most commented articles were analyzed. The results revealed that the despite the fact that the majority of articles belong to breaking news column, they fall under infotainment category and does conform to the concept of public sphere only in part. Summarizing the research, the flowing statement can be made: after 10% of most commented articles were analyzed, the trend of infotainment category articles, which cannot be unambiguously accredited as conforming to the concept of the theory of J.Habermas and the critical school, was observed.

The number of Internet users has grown rapidly over last 8 years and at the moment embraces more than one fifth of world's population. By no means, Internet becomes more important in the terms of communication, searching for information, working or resting. This also encouraged growing number of companies to present themselves on the internet prior to taking care of advertising campaigns, since being online in nowadays means existing. Therefore, not that it was a great surprise to observe the appearance of online sites for well-known business corporations or to meet the online versions of public newspapers. Free and independent Internet from the very beginning meant open possibilities for every individual with an access to the computer network to express itself, to take part in public debates and to have a chance to influence the authorities in order to accomplish the mission of public interest. Nevertheless, Internet also meant new opportunities to develop the main element of democratic society and state – it was a chance for public sphere to come back into force, because traditional means of media have been disappointing lately due to the process where the main subject public discourse and debate was replaced by tiresome political performance. The main objective of this thesis is to reveal the background for analysis to uncover the role of Internet media for creating the discourse online, and also what the results on how the Internet news portal of Lithuania www.delfi.lt and www.lrytas.lt conform to the concept of public sphere could be found. The quantitative and qualitative content analysis was carried on in order to find the answer on the issue what kind of information is dominative in the first place. The research analysis was carried out in three stages. First to be the one to show the results on the segmentation of the topics throughout the columns reveal that most of the articles of both online news portals lie into Breaking news column with the second and third to be Lifestyle and Business review accordingly. Second stage of analysis happened to be the one to uncover how the online news portals conform to the concept of public sphere. The results revealed that the dominative part of information falls under infotainment category, while it does conform to the public sphere discourse in part. The last stage of the research analysis was carried out in order to reveal what topics are the most popular among the readership. Therefore, 10% of most commented articles were analyzed. The results revealed that the despite the fact that the majority of articles belong to breaking news column, they fall under infotainment category and does conform to the concept of public sphere only in part. Summarizing the research, the flowing statement can be made: after 10% of most commented articles were analyzed, the trend of infotainment category articles, which cannot be unambiguously accredited as conforming to the concept of the theory of J.Habermas and the critical school, was observed.