2005 online election

I gave a presentation at MMU, last Wednesday, 9th, about the role of the Internet in the forthcoming general election. The main line of argument was about the ubiquity of the Internet in the electoral process, rather than the usual focus on candidates and campaigns.

I tried to argue that the importance of the internet will be seen for online news reporting, local campaigns and electoral manegement. Take a look for yourself at the presentation, nice graphs and not too many numbers (this time). Or peruse the graph here, about the increasing prevalence of digital circulaiton of newspapers...



Thanks to Steve Hurst (here for the corporate feel) for organising the seminar, and the selected few for attending.

17 March update -- Thanks Tom (here for the community service) for pointing out that figures from the BBC look a bit thin. Figures for electronic circulation are from ABCe - April 2004 as concerns the BBC. Anyone from the Corporation with more recent figures?