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Title Political Campaigning on the Web / Johanna Niesyto, Veronika Kneip, Sigrid Baringhorst
Published Bielefeld : transcript-Verlag, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource
Series Medienumbrüche ; 37
Contents Frontmatter -- Content -- General Reflections on Political Campaigning on the Web -- Introduction: Political Campaigning in Changing Media Cultures - Typological and Historical Approaches / Baringhorst, Sigrid -- The Publics Behind Political Web Campaigning. The Digital Transformation of 'Classic' Counter-Public Spheres / Wimmer, Jeffrey -- Forms of Digital Resistance. The Internet and the Constitution of a Transnational Public Sphere / Winter, Rainer -- Appropriation of the Web -- Characteristics and Developments of Political Party Web Campaigns in Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States between 1997 and 2007 / Zielmann, Sarah / Röttger, Ulrike -- Virtualized Campaigning for Europe: Towards Reinvigoration of European Public Sphere(s)? / Niesyto, Johanna -- Petitioning Online. The Role of E-Petitions in Web Campaigning / Mosca, Lorenzo / Santucci, Daria -- Internet Campaigning across Borders: The Virtual Revival of Labour Internationalism? / Hodkinson, Stuart -- Political Struggles within the Market Sphere - The Internet as a 'Weapon'? / Kneip, Veronika -- Organization, Mobilization, and Identity: National and Transnational Grassroots Campaigns between Face-to-Face and Computer-Mediated Communication / Mattoni, Alice -- Subsumption and Outlook -- Communication and Campaign Strategies of Intermediary Organizations - A Comparative Analysis / Lindner, Ralf -- Geert Lovink interviewed by Johanna Niesyto A Plea for More Experiments and Creativity in Political Laboratories -- Contributors
Summary Drawing upon a common conceptual framework of political webcampaigning the book offers theoretical reflections on Internet-based campaign politics. It provides a comparative overview on the use of the Internet as a campaigning instrument by diverse intermediary political actors. Taking the empirical findings of Internet appropriations into consideration, the book discusses the impact of political webcampaigning on (transnational) democracy and the transformation of public spheres
Notes In English
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Jan 2018)
Subject Internet in political campaigns.
Political campaigns -- Effect of technological innovations on
Political campaigns.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
Internet in political campaigns
Political campaigns
Form Electronic book
Author Baringhorst, Sigrid, editor
Kneip, Veronika, editor
Niesyto, Johanna, editor
ISBN 3839410479
9783839410479