The Internet and Politics. Citizens, Voters and Activists

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ISBN: 978-0415347846

Type of work: Book

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Politics and Political Science

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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