Methodological aspects of the study of the right to access to information in the context of modern communicative practices

The article is devoted to the analysis of methodological aspects of the study of the right to access to information in the context of modern communicative practices. The necessity of identifying and substantiating the most applicable methods for research is determined. It is emphasized that the methodology of scientific research appears as a certain «code of laws» of scientific knowledge, which consists of two blocks of methodological knowledge - theoretical and worldview concepts and a system of methods of knowledge of different levels. Based on the analysis of doctrinal sources, the author followed the understanding of the concept of legal methodology, method as a research tool. The importance of determining the methods of scientific research as one of the primary theoretical and applied tasks has been established. The influence on the choice of scientific research methods (both general scientific and special scientific) of the subject of research (to determine the share of techniques within the method) and features of the object (to determine the range of techniques within the method) was monitored. The article clarifies the possibilities of general scientific methods of researching the right to access to information in the context of modern communicative practices, in particular methods of general logic, such as analysis and synthesis, deduction and induction, abstraction and generalization, as well as classification. The author considered the most applicable historical-legal, comparative-legal (comparative), hermeneutic (hermeneutic-legal) and formal-dogmatic (legal) methods for research. The author concluded that an important factor in the success of modern legal research is the use of an effective methodological toolkit, which depends on the quality of scientific results, their reliability and practical significance. Collectively, the analyzed methods make possible a comprehensive theoretical and methodological study of the right to access to information in the context of modern communication practices. The chosen methodology determines the research strategy, the system of applicable methods, as well as their importance and distribution of roles in obtaining and processing research materials.