Social Science Computer Review - State of the art of computing in the social sciences, 1999
Mass media use and social life among Internet users
Social Science Computer Review - Special issue on survey and statistical computing in the new millennium
Massive questionnaires for personality capture
Social Science Computer Review
MyEmpowerNet.gov: a proposal to enhance policy e-participation
Social Science Computer Review
Profiling the Adopters of E-Government Information and Services
Social Science Computer Review
Who posts DeCSS and why?: a content analysis of web sites posting DVD circumvention software
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Youth and the Internet: Uses and practices in the home
Computers & Education
The Effect of Internet Use on Political Participation
Social Science Computer Review
Internet information and communication behavior during a political moment: The Iraq war, March 2003
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
eParticipation: The Research Gaps
ePart '09 Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Electronic Participation
Social Science Computer Review
The Digital Divide, Political Participation, and Place
Social Science Computer Review
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International Journal of Electronic Government Research
Social Science Computer Review
Digital Inequality and Participation in the Political Process: Real or Imagined?
Social Science Computer Review
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Scholars continue to find that political participation, especially beyond voting, is in limited supply in the United States. However, the rise of the Internet provides possibilities to mitigate such circumstances. Some scholars suggest that the Internet disconnects citizens from public life, while other studies note that it provides a venue for further participation in public life. The question remains as to whether the Internet mobilizes or demobilizes citizens. The article explores this question using Survey2000, a comprehensive, Internet-based, social scientific survey conducted in 1998 by scholars at Northwestern University in conjunction with the National Geographic Society. A positive relationship is found between engagement on the Internet and civic and political participation. However, the article also finds that the Internet appears to exacerbate the socioeconomic bias already exhibited by civic and political participation prior to the rise of the Internet.