Bibliographische Detailangaben
Beteiligte: Howard, Philip N.
veröffentlicht: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
©2005.
Teil von: Communication, Society and Politics Series
Medientyp: Buch, E-Book

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Umfang: 1 online resource (289 pages)
ISBN: 9780511139185
Ausgabe: 1st ed.
Sprache: Englisch
Teil von: Communication, Society and Politics Series
Schlagwörter:
Print version:: Howard, Philip N., New Media Campaigns and the Managed Citizen, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,c2005
Kollektion: E-Books adlr
Inhaltsangabe

Technological innovations can alter the organization of power in politics, and it is difficult to distinguish political systems from their communication technologies. This book explores how political organizations use new information technologies to construct public opinion, and analyzes what it means to be a citizen in a modern, representative democracy.

Cover
Half-title
Series-title
Dedication
Title
Copyright
Contents
Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
Prologue: The Flows of Information in Competitive Politics
Introduction: The Hypermedia Campaign
The Evolution of Hypermedia Campaigns in the United States
Political Computing
1988
1990
1992
1994
1996
1998
2000
2002
2004
Information Technology in Campaigns and Elections
Outline of the Book
ONE Political Communication and Information Technology
Politics in Code
Digital Democracy in Theory and Practice
A Network Ethnography of Hypermedia Campaigns
Political Consultants as a Cultural Industry
Shared Goals and Projects
Us/Them, In/Out
"Getting It" and "This Space"
Shared Ideology
The Structural Code of Political Communication
Political Objects
Political Processes
Political Events
Political Memory
Analytical Frames for Studying Politics and Information Technology
Positive Political Effects
Negative Political Effects
Neutral Political Effects
Cultural Approaches to Political Communication Systems
Information Technologies as Cultural Schema
TWO Producing the Hypermedia Campaign
The Digital Leviathan
The Opportunists at DataBank.com
The Altruists at Astroturf-Lobby.org
Hypermedia and Production of Public Opinion
The Science of Private Opinion Measurement
Of Grassroots and Astroturf
THREE Learning Politics from the Hypermedia Campaign
Software and Surveillance
The Opportunists at Voting.com
The Altruists at GrassrootsActivist.org
Political Communication and the Open Information Market
The Market for Political Information
Democratic Representation through the Market?
Political Redlining and Issue Publics
Political Networks, Individually Constructed.
Political Contexts, Structurally Imposed
FOUR Organizational Communication in the Hypermedia Campaign
The Development of Campaign Organization
Ideologue Elites, Capo Managers, and Coding Generals
Information Processes and Organizational Behavior in Political Campaigns
A Theory of Epistemic Heterarchy
Power and Social Control in the Hypermedia Campaign
FIVE Managed Citizenship and Information Technology
The Wizards of Odds
DataBank.com and Voting.com
GrassrootsActivist.org and Astroturf-Lobby.org
Deviance and Decisions
The Organization of Normative Deviance
Citizenship in the Digital Democracy
Thin, Shadow, and Privatized Citizenship
Political Schemata Rationalized in Code
Randomness and Disengagement in the Public Sphere
Policy and Process for the Healthy Digital Democracy
Appendix: Method Notes on Studying Information Technology and Political Communication
Methodological Challenges in Studying Hypermedia Organizations
Unbundled Social Cues and Territoriality
Problems and Prospects of Ethnography
Problems and Prospects of Social Network Analysis
Network Ethnography
Network Ethnography Applied
An Example: Confirming Field Observations
Conclusion
Glossary
References
Index.