Internet Politics Books

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1. Political Campaigning, Elections and the Internet: Comparing the US, UK, France and Germany

   By Darren Lilleker, Nigel Jackson

   The Internet first played a minor role in the 1992 U.S. Presidential election, and has gradually increased in importance so that it is central to election campaign strategy. However, election campaigners have, until very recently, focused on Web 1.0: websites and email. Political Campaigning,...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-57218-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. E-government in Europe: Re-booting the State

   Edited by Paul G. Nixon, Vassiliki N. Koutrakou

   This book traces the development of e-government and its applications across Europe, exploring the effects of information and communication technology (ICTs) upon political action and processes. Explores a range of concepts and topics underpinning e-government in Europe: the degree to which...

   July 2010 | 978-0-415-59948-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   The Internet and Parliamentary Democracy in Europe: A Comparative Study of the Ethics of Political Communication in the Digital Age

   Edited by Xiudian Dai, Philip Norton

   This book investigates the ethical challenges the internet presents to contemporary parliamentary democracy in Europe and how these challenges are being addressed. It fills an important gap: current literature until now has largely focused on the study of internet usage by politicians and...

   June 2010 | 978-0-415-57222-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Understanding E-Government in Europe: Issues and Challenges

   Edited by Paul G. Nixon, Vassiliki N. Koutrakou, Rajash Rawal

   This volume critically explores the contentions in the emerging debate surrounding new media technologies and the extent to which they are challenging traditional political and government models. Examining a range of citizen/government interactions which together form e-government in...

   January 2010 | 978-0-415-46800-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Blogging the Political: Politics and Participation in a Networked Society

   By Antoinette Pole

   The popular blog-tracking site technorati.com reports the existance of well over one hundred million blogs. Despite the medium’s ubiquity, the impact of political blogging on politics and civic engagemment has not been systematically examined. In an era of depressed civic engagement, where access...

   December 2009 | 978-0-415-96342-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. Cyber-Conflict and Global Politics

   Edited by Athina Karatzogianni

   This volume examines theoretical and empirical issues relating to cyberconflict and its implications for global security and politics. Taking a multidimensional approach to current debates in internet politics, the book comprises essays by leading experts from across the world. The volume...

   December 2009 | 978-0-415-57657-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Routledge Handbook of Internet Politics

   Edited by Andrew Chadwick, Philip N. Howard

   The politics of the internet has entered the social science mainstream. From debates about its impact on parties and election campaigns following momentous presidential contests in the United States, to concerns over international security, privacy and surveillance in the post-9/11, post-7/7...

   December 2009 | 978-0-415-78058-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Power, Resistance and Conflict in the Contemporary World: Social movements, networks and hierarchies

   By Athina Karatzogianni, Andrew Robinson

   This book examines issues of organisation in resistance movements, discussing topics including the integration of the world system, the intersection of networks with discourses of identity, and the possibility of social transformation. Drawing on a number of theorists including Deleuze and...

   September 2009 | 978-0-415-45298-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. China's Information and Communications Technology Revolution: Social changes and state responses

   Edited by Xiaoling Zhang, Yongnian Zheng

   In recent years, China has experienced a revolution in information and communications technology (ICT), in 2003 surpassing the USA as the world’s largest telephone market, and as of February 2008, the number of Chinese Internet users has become the largest in the world. At the same time, China...

   March 2009 | 978-0-415-46230-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Propaganda and Information Warfare in the Twenty-First Century: Altered Images and Deception Operations

    By Scot Macdonald

    This is the first book to analyze how the technology to alter images and rapidly distribute them can be used for propaganda and to support deception operations. In the past, propagandists and those seeking to conduct deception operations used crude methods to alter images of real people, events...

    January 2009 | 978-0-415-54500-6 | Paperback (Routledge)