Routledge Handbook of Internet Politics
Edited by Andrew Chadwick (Royal Holloway,
University of London, UK) and Philip N. Howard (University of Washington, USA)
The politics of the internet has entered the
social science mainstream. From debates about its
impact on parties and election campaigns
following momentous presidential contests in the United
States, to concerns over international security,
privacy and surveillance in the post-9/11, post-7/7
environment; from the rise of blogging as a
threat to the traditional model of journalism, to
controversies at the international level over
how and if the internet should be governed by an entity
such as the United Nations; from the new
repertoires of collective action open to citizens, to the
massive programs of public management reform
taking place in the name of e-government,
internet politics and policy are continually in the headlines.
The Routledge Handbook of Internet Politics is a
collection of over 30 chapters dealing with the
most significant scholarly debates in this
rapidly growing field of study. Organized in four broad
sections, the Handbook summarizes and criticizes
contemporary debates while pointing out new
departures. A comprehensive set of resources, it
provides linkages to established theories of media
and politics, political communication,
governance, deliberative democracy and social movements, all
within an interdisciplinary context.
This is the first publication of its kind in
this field; a helpful companion to students and scholars of
politics, international relations, communication studies and sociology.
July 2008: 246x189: 432pp | Hb:
978-0-415-42914-6: £90.00 | eBook: 978-0-203-96254-1
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Selected Contents:
1. Introduction Andrew Chadwick and Philip N. Howard
Part 1: Institutions
2. The Internet in US Election Campaigns Richard
Davis, Jody C. Baumgartner, Peter L. Francia and Jonathan S. Morris
3. European Political Organizations and the
Internet: Mobilization, Participation and Change Stephen Ward and Rachel Gibson
4. Electoral Web Production Practices in
Cross-National Perspective: The Relative
Influence of National Development, Political
Culture, and Web Genre Kirsten A. Foot, Michael
Xenos, Steven M. Schneider, Randolph Kluver and Nicholas W. Jankowski
5. Parties, Election Campaigning and the
Internet: Toward a Comparative Institutional
Approach Nick Anstead and Andrew Chadwick
6. Technological Change and the Shifting Nature
of Political Organization Bruce Bimber, Cythia Stohl and Andrew J. Flanagin
7. Making Parliamentary Democracy Visible:
Speaking to, With and For the Public in the Age
of Interactive Technology Stephen Coleman
8. Bureaucratic Reform and E-Government in the
United States: An Institutional Perspective Jane E. Fountain
9. Public Management Change and E-Government:
The Emergence of Digital Era Governance Helen Margetts
Part 2: Behavior
10. Wired to Fact: The Role of the Internet in
Identifying Deception During the 2004 US
Presidential Campaign Bruce W. Hardy, Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Kenneth Winneg
11. Political Engagement Online: Do the
Information Rich Get Richer and the Like-Minded
More Similar? Jennifer Brundidge and Ronald E. Rice
12. Information, the Internet and Direct
Democracy Justin Reedy and Chris Wells
13. Toward Digital Citizenship: Addressing
Inequality in the Information Age Karen Mossberger
14. Online News Creation and Consumption:
Implications for Modern Democracies David Tewksbury and Jason Rittenberg
15. Web 2.0 and the Transformation of News and Journalism James Stanyer
Part 3: Identities
16. The Internet and the Changing Global Media Environment Brian McNair
17. The Virtual Sphere 2.0: The Internet, the
Public Sphere and Beyond Zizi Papacharissi
18. Identity, Technology and Narratives:
Transnational Activism and Social Networks W. Lance Bennett and
Amoshaun Toft
19. Theorizing Gender and the Internet: Past,
Present, and Future Niels Van Doorn and Liesbet Van
Zoonen
20. New Immigrants, the Internet, and Civic
Society Young-Chen Kim and Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach
21. One Europe, Digitally Divided Jan Van Dijk
22. Working Around the State: Internet Use and
Political Identity in the Arab World Deborah L. Wheeler
Part 4: Law and Policy
23. The Geopolitics of Internet Control:
Censorship, Sovereignty and Cyberspace Ronald J. Diebert
24. Locational Surveillance: Embracing the
Patterns of Our Lives David J. Phillips
25. Metaphoric Reinforcement of the Virtual
Fence: Factors Shaping the Political Economy of
Property in Cyberspace Oscar H. Gandy, Jr. and Kenneth Neil Farrall
26. Globalizing the Logic of Openness: Open
Source Software and the Global Governance of
Intellectual Property Christopher May
27. Exclusionary Rules? The Politics of Protocols Greg Elmer
28. The New Politics of the Internet:
Multistakeholder Policy Making and the Internet
Technocracy William H. Dutton and Malcolm Peltu
29. Enabling Effective Multistakeholder
Participation in Global Internet Governance
Through Accessible Cyberinfrastructure Derrick L. Cogburn
30. Internet Diffusion and the Digital Divide:
The Role of Policymaking and Political Institutions Kenneth S. Rogerson
and Daniel Milton
31. Conclusion Philip N. Howard and Andrew Chadwick
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