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IPolitics:

Citizens, Elections, and Governing in the New Media Era
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Richard L. Fox, Jennifer Ramos
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Cambridge University Press, Nov 21, 2011 - Business & Economics - 303 pages
iPolitics provides a current analysis of new media's effect on politics. Politicians rely on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube to exercise political power. Citizens around the world also use these tools to vent political frustrations, join political groups, and organize revolutions. Political activists blog to promote candidates, solicit and coordinate financial contributions, and provide opportunities for volunteers. iPolitics describes the ways in which new media innovations change how politicians and citizens engage the political arena. Most importantly, the volume emphasizes the implications of these changes for the promotion of democratic ideals. Among other things, contributors to this volume analyze whether the public's political knowledge has increased or decreased in the new media era, the role television still plays in the information universe, the effect bloggers have had on the debate and outcome of healthcare reform, and the manner in which political leaders should navigate the new media environment. While the majority of contributors examine new media and politics in the United States, the volume also provides a unique comparative perspective on this relationship using cases from abroad.
  

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Contents

More Sources Better Informed Public? New Media
25
Rethinking Televisions Relationship to Politics
48
Political Blogging and Journalism
76
Obama versus
103
The Rise of Web Campaigning in Finland
125
Austria and Switzerland 1 5 1
151
New Ways for Members
206
Obama Netroots Progressives
233
Lessons from Internet
259
Index
289
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Richard L. Fox is an associate professor of political science at Loyola Marymount University. He is the co-author of It Still Takes a Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Tabloid Justice: The Criminal System in the Age of Media Frenzy, 2nd Edition (2007), as well as co-editor of Gender and Election, 2nd Edition (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Jennifer M. Ramos is an assistant professor of political science at Loyola Marymount University. Her research focuses on understanding the causes and consequences of political change, with an emphasis on the role of ideas, norms and identity. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, International Studies Perspectives, the Journal of Political Ideologies and Human Rights Review.

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