Table of Contents

1. Introduction Part 1: Institutions 2. The Internet in US Election Campaigns 3. European Political Organizations and the Internet: Mobilization, Participation and Change 4. Electoral Web Production Practices in Cross-National Perspective: The Relative Influence of National Development, Political Culture, and Web Genre 5. Parties, Election Campaigning and the Internet: Toward a Comparative Institutional Approach 6. Technological Change and the Shifting Nature of Political Organization 7. Making Parliamentary Democracy Visible: Speaking to, With and For the Public in the Age of Interactive Technology 8. Bureaucratic Reform and E-Government in the United States: An Institutional Perspective 9. Public Management Change and E-Government: The Emergence of Digital Era Governance Part 2: Behavior 10. Wired to Fact: The Role of the Internet in Identifying Deception During the 2004 US Presidential Campaign 11. Political Engagement Online: Do the Information Rich Get Richer and the Like-Minded More Similar? 12. Information, the Internet and Direct Democracy 13. Toward Digital Citizenship: Addressing Inequality in the Information Age 14. Online News Creation and Consumption: Implications for Modern Democracies 15. Web 2.0 and the Transformation of News and Journalism Part 3: Identities 16. The Internet and the Changing Global Media Environment 17. The Virtual Sphere 2.0: The Internet, the Public Sphere and Beyond 18. Identity, Technology and Narratives: Transnational Activism and Social Networks 19. Theorizing Gender and the Internet: Past, Present, and Future 20. New Immigrants, the Internet, and Civic Society 21. One Europe, Digitally Divided 22. Working Around the State: Internet Use and Political Identity in the Arab World Part 4: Law and Policy 23. The Geopolitics of Internet Control: Censorship, Sovereignty and Cyberspace 24. Locational Surveillance: Embracing the Patterns of Our Lives 25. Metaphoric Reinforcement of the Virtual Fence: Factors Shaping the Political Economy of Property in Cyberspace 26. Globalizing the Logic of Openness: Open Source Software and the Global Governance of Intellectual Property 27. Exclusionary Rules? The Politics of Protocols 28. The New Politics of the Internet: Multistakeholder Policy Making and the Internet Technocracy 29. Enabling Effective Multistakeholder Participation in Global Internet Governance Through Accessible Cyberinfrastructure 30. Internet Diffusion and the Digital Divide: The Role of Policymaking and Political Institutions 31. Conclusion