The Internet and politics : citizens, voters, and activists /

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Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Description:xii, 228 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:[Democratization studies
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5877709
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Other authors / contributors:Oates, Sarah.
Owen, Diana Marie.
Gibson, Rachel Kay.
ISBN:041534784X (hardback : alk. paper)
Notes:"Based on papers written for a 2003 European Consortium of Political Research workshop."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Internet, civil society and democracy : a comparative perspective / Sarah Oates and Rachel K. Gibson
  • 2. The Internet and youth civic engagement in the United States / Diana Owen
  • 3. The Minnesota E-democracy project : mobilising the mobilised? / Jakob Linaa Jensen
  • 4. Hunting protestors : mobilisation, participation and protest online in the countryside alliance / Wainer Lusoli and Stephen Ward
  • 5. Design matters : the political efficacy of government-run discussion boards / Scott Wright
  • 6. Cybercortical warfare : Hizbollah's Internet strategy / Maura Conway
  • 7. Civil society, the Internet and terrorism : case studies from northern Ireland / Paul Reilly
  • 8. Virtual parties in a virtual world : the use of the Internet by Russian political parties / Luke March
  • 9. Hard to connect : transnational networks, non-governmental organisations and the Internet in Russia / Diana Schmidt
  • 10. Murder, journalism and the Web : how the Gongadze case launched the Internet news era in Ukraine / Natalya Krasnoboka and Holli A. Semetko
  • 11. Pathologies of the virtual public sphere / Heinz Brandenburg.