The Internet and politics: citizens, voters and activists
[Book]
/ edited by Sarah Oates, Diana Owen and Rachel K. Gibson
London; New York
: Routledge
, 2006.
xii, 228 p.
: ill
(Democratization studies)
"Based on papers written for a 2003 European Consortium of Political Research workshop."
Includes bibliographical references and index
The Internet, civil society and democracy: a comparative perspective / Sarah Oates and Rachel K. Gibson -- The Internet and youth civic engagement in the United States / Diana Owen -- The Minnesota e-democracy project : mobilising the mobilised? / Jakob Linaa Jensen -- Hunting protestors : mobilisation, participation and protest online in the Countryside Alliance / Wainer Lusoli and Stephen Ward -- Design matters : the political efficacy of government-run discussion boards / Scott Wright -- Cybercortical warfare : Hizbollah's Internet strategy / Maura Conway -- Civil society, the Internet and terrorism : case studies from Northern Ireland / Paul Reilly -- Virtual parties in a virtual world : the use of the Internet by Russian political parties / Luke March -- Hard to connect : transnational networks, non-governmental organisations and the Internet in Russia / Diana Schmidt -- Murder, journalism and the Web : how the Gongadze case launched the Internet news era in Ukraine / Natalya Krasnoboka and Holli A. Semetko -- Pathologies of the virtual public sphere / Heinz Brandenburg
Political participation -- Technological innovations - Congresses
Information technology -- Political aspects - Congresses