20 papers on Internet and politics

An additional 20+ papers and articles on various aspects of Internet and politics were added to the resources section of the website. This is an increasinglily common port of call for student dissertations [according to the logs, anyway].

Good: I'll list this as ‘community service’…

Spinning the Web

I was to the 'Spinning the Web' event on Tuesday 5 July. A very large audience, one mad activist, good chair [though they should be endowed with electric baton to dissuade mad acticists] and a few interesting papers I thought.

[oh, and I was the one pressing the arrow key during Steve's presentation]

There are various accounts of what happened on the night, from Lynne Featherstone MP, Bill Thompson [ paper notes] [presentation] [voxpolitics post], Robin Grant, the BBC online,

Being in such good company, I'll be excused if I don't give my own account. But you can read Steve Ward and yours truly's contribution to the report, if you are interested [PDF]:

Logging On or Switching Off? The Public and the Internet at the 2005 General Election

Data, data and more data

Make sure you read the full report, available from the Hansard Society website.

Politics makes strange bedfellows

A short post to announce that the UK component of the Internet and Elections Project has come to full fruition. A revised version of the paper I presented at the AoIR conference, based on a report by Janelle Ward and I, has been accepted for publication in Press/ Politics.

Needless to say, both Janelle and I are very glad :)

The full ref will read:

Lusoli, W. & J. Ward (2005). 'Politics makes strange bedfellows': the Internet in the 2004 European Parliament election. Harvard International Journal of Press / Politics, 10(3), pp. forthcoming.

I will post the PDF to the blog as soon as copyright is cleared and the articles goes to press.