Digital Divide?: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide
Digital Divide?: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide
Politics as Usual
Democratic Governance and New Technology: Technologically Mediated Innovations in Political Practice in Western Europe
Characterizing E-Participation in Policy-Making
HICSS '04 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'04) - Track 5 - Volume 5
The state we are in: E-democracy in Denmark
Information Polity
Information Polity - The World Wide Web and the 2004 European Parliament Election
Explaining eDemocracy development: A quantitative empirical study
Information Polity
Measuring the diffusion of eParticipation: A survey on Italian local government
Information Polity - Reflections on ICT in Public Administration from the European Group on Public Administration
eElectioneering: Current Research Trends
EGOV '08 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Electronic Government
Do websites influence the nature of voting intentions? The case of two national elections in Greece
Computers in Human Behavior
From networked publics to issue publics: reconsidering the public/private distinction in web science
Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference
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The uptake of online media in election campaigning is leading to speculations about the transformation of politics and cyber-democracy. Politicians running for seats in Parliament are increasingly using online media to disseminate information to potential voters and building dynamic, online communities. Drawing on an online survey of the Facebook networks of the two top candidates running for seats in the 2007 Danish Parliament election, this study suggests that the online sphere is primarily populated by users who already know the candidates through the traditional channels of party organizations, and that they do not expect to influence the policy of their candidates. Instead, users view Facebook mainly as an information channel and as a means to gain social prestige.