1st Edition
Next Generation Netroots Realignment and the Rise of the Internet Left
1. There Is No Center 2. On Coalitions, Movements and Regime Change 3. Netroots Rising 4. Television, Message Control, Money and Republican Dominance 5. Objectivity and Transparency 6. The Limits of Netroots Influence 7. Resolution
Biography
Matthew R. Kerbel is Professor and Chair of the Political Science Department at Villanova University.
Christopher J. Bowers is the Senior Campaign Director for Daily Kos and an experienced consultant for a wide range of campaigns and organizations.
Like the printing press, radio, and television in the past, today's communication technologies are vastly reshaping the political landscape. Bowers has been in the middle of this revolution, while Kerbel has had a front-row seat. Together, they place current changes in historical context and persuasively suggest what this era of the Internet means for liberals, conservatives, and the future of American politics.
-- Markos Moulitsas, Founder of Daily Kos
Matthew R. Kerbel and Christopher J. Bowers have written the seminal account of the ascendance of the netroots and the progressive movement that has accompanied it. Next Generation Netroots describes the struggle of the forces on the left to first gain a foothold in the Democratic Party and, more recently, to use the mobilization powers of the Internet to assert a stronger voice in setting policy. This book is crucial to the understanding of the conflicting forces at work at a time when the direction of the country is deeply uncertain.
-- Thomas B. Edsall, Columbia University
Next Generation Netroots is the book online activists didn't know they were waiting for. Matthew Kerbel and Chris Bowers explain why everything we thought we knew about how to expand the progressive netroots is wrong, and why it's time for a new approach. When what you're doing doesn't work, read this book.
-- Susan Madrak, Senior Political Writer at Blue Nation Review
