Study of Political Activity of the Population of Provincial City in the Network Information Space

The article examines political activity of the population on the Internet using a study of protest activity in 24 provincial cities of Russia. The authors identify the topics of greatest interest in social networks and online media, representative and relevant Internet sources of information for the population and deduce the locality and situationality of information interests, as well as the low level of protest potential and the ability to work with online resources.