EP election and the web in Britain

Just finished putting the finishing touches to a research paper. The research looks at the use of the web by candidates, parties, media, government, pressure groups, and pant, pant, citizens at the 2004 European Parliament election. Or lack thereof, as it turned out.

Would you believe that general information was widely prevalent?
Or that very few engagement opportunities were provided?
But that, however, candidates did not do badly, when they bothered having a website?

Of course you would, as 'politics as usual' is alive and well in Britain. Would it be different in the States? Australia? Finland? Find out.

However, there were interesting aspects to the election, as well. This, broadly, was the dimensional structure of website features on offer in the electoral websphere, at least according to multi dimensional scaling and my interpretation:



The paper was first presented at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference. This was in Brighton, Sussex, in September 2004.

Janelle Ward and I are also working (well, we will be shortly) on an extension of that paper, to include all candidates and regional parties to the sample analysis above.