THE INTERNET & POLITICS: ASSESSING THE CLAIMS AND REVIEWING THE EVIDENCE
The Stanhope Centre for Communication Policy Research (http://www.stanhopecentre.org/2007/) is organizing a panel involving the editors and authors of three recent or about-to-be published books, together with staff members from the Department of Sociology at City University. The most immediate publication in this genre is entitled The Internet and National Elections: A Comparative Study of Web Campaigning, to be released by Routledge in May 2007. This volume provides a comparative analysis of the use of the Web in countries around the world during political campaigns. Drawing upon a common conceptual framework, the book examines how the Internet is employed by a variety of political actors.
At the conclusion of the discussion a reception will be held celebrating publication of The Internet and National Elections.
Scholars participating in the panel are:
Jean Chalaby, Professor, City University, author of “American Cultural Primacy in a New Media Order: A European Perspective” (Gazette, 2006)
Endre Dányi, Research student, University of Lancaster, author of chapter in The Internet and National Elections
Kirsten Foot, Associate Professor, University of Washington; co-editor of The Internet and National Elections and co-author of Web Campaigning (MIT Press, 2006)
Nicholas Jankowski, Visiting Fellow, Virtual Knowledge Studio, Amsterdam, co-editor of The Internet and National Elections
Randy Kluver, Director, Institute for Pacific Asia, Texas A&M University, co-editor of The Internet and National Elections
Wainer Lusoli, Assistant Professor, Chester University, author of Voice and E-Quality: The State of Electronic Democracy in Britain (Hampton Press, forthcoming)
Steven Schneider, Professor, State University New York, co-editor of The Internet and National Elections and co-author of Web Campaigning (MIT Press, 2006)
Frank Webster, Professor, City University, author of Theories of the Information Society (Routledge, 2002)
The panel discussion will be webcast; details available at: http://www.stanhopecentre.org/2007/
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Launch Event 2:
There will be an informal book launch at the 57th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, San Francisco, CA, May 25, 2007.
The book launch will be held at a location to be announced.
