Routledge Handbook Of Internet Politics

Description:
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 thirty chapters dealing with the most significant scholarly debates in this rapidly growing field of study. Organized in four broad sections: Institutions, Behavior, Identities, and Law and Policy, 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. The contributors form a strong international cast of established and junior scholars. 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.

Table of 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 'Yong-Chan 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. Deibert '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' Bibliography

Author Biography:
Royal Holloway, University of London, UK University of Washington, USA