The Internet and politics
Subtitle: citizens, voters, and activists
By: edited by Sarah Oates, Diana Owen, and Rachel Gibson.
Contributors: Oates, Sarah.; Owen, Diana Marie.; Gibson, Rachel Kay.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Political participation -- Technological innovations -- Congresses; Information technology -- Political aspects -- Congresses; Internet -- Political aspects -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: This volume explores the nature of the Internet's impact on civil society, addressing key questions and drawing on new research.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Based on papers written for a 2003 European Consortium of  Political Research workshop."
Table of contents: title: The Internet, civil society and democracy: a comparative perspective / Sarah Oates and Rachel Gibson; title: The Internet and youth civic engagement in the United States / Diana Owen; title: The Minnesota e-democracy project : mobilising the mobilised? / Jakob Linaa Jensen; title: Hunting online action : mobilisation, participation, and protest in the countryside alliance / Wainer Lusoli and Stephen Ward; title: Design matters : the political efficacy of government-run discussion boards / Scott Wright; title: Cybercortical warfare : the case of hizbollah.org / Maura Conway; title: Society, terrorism, and the Internet : case studies from Northern Ireland / Paul Reilly; title: Virtual parties in a virtual world : the use of the Internet by Russian political parties / Luke March; title: Hard to connect : transnational networks, non-governmental organisations, and the Internet in Russia / Diana Schmidt; title: Murder, journalism, and the Web : how the Gongadze case launched the Internet news era in Ukraine / Natalya Krasnoboka and Holli A. Semetko; title: Pathologies of the virtual public sphere / Heinz Brandenburg.