New experimentation: cyberspace, the networked public sphere and the youth in the United States and South Korea -- How Korea's wired youth became a political power: NNIT-activated experimentation and the 2002 presidential election in Korea -- What the new experimentation portends for democracy: Korea's beef crisis -- NNITS and the Obama phenomenon: transforming electoral politics of the youth -- Obama tweeting and tweeted: the Sotomayor nomination and health care reform -- Making sense of the new experimentation
Summary
Jongwoo Han's Networked Information Technologies, Elections, and Politics: Korea and the United States is a study on the changes that have been occurring in elections, politics, and democratic movements over the past decade. These changes show a paradigm shift in political discourse, from the industrial age mass media-based public sphere to new networked information technologies (NNITs)-based cyber sphere. Han reveals