• The article discusses some features of information technologies used by Kazakh
    media during election campaigns of different years. The purpose of this work is
    to analyze the peculiarities and factors behind the increasing role of the Kazakh
    media in the process of democratic elections. The article shows that since 1991-
    1996 transitional phases, Kazakhstan has been undergoing an intensive
    procedure of incorporating the media into its constantly evolving democratic
    set-up and putting up a media monitoring system of the political process in
    place. Kazakhstan mass media has successfully coped with this task bringing in
    changes within and taking into account public mentality and technologies at
    hand. The article presents a comparative analysis of the use of various
    information technologies in Kazakh election campaigns of different years, with
    particular attention on the presidential election of 2019.