Political Parties and the Internet: Net Gain? by R. K. Gibson, P. G. Nixon, S. J. Ward

By R. K. Gibson, P. G. Nixon, S. J. Ward

Can the web support to re-engage the general public in politics? How are political events utilizing the net as a verbal exchange software? Has politics replaced within the details age?This booklet offers an overview of the way political events are adapting to the increase of recent info and communique applied sciences and what the results could be. It contains case reports of the united states, the united kingdom, Australia, Korea, Mexico, France, Romania and the Mediterranean zone.

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10 See also the report on the 2000 Spanish election ‘The Campaign in Spain’, Slate, 15 February 2000, op cit. 11 In Germany, Otto Schilly, SPD minister, has already threatened far-right groups with online restrictions. However, the extreme-right British National Party has legally forced the BBC to restore hypertext links to its site under a recently introduced human-rights legislation. htm. 13 Ibid. S. and Muzzio, D. (1997) ‘Political uses of the World Wide Web in the 1996 US presidential campaign’, paper presented to the History and Development of Political Communication on Television, International Conference, Amsterdam.

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