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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Hindman, Matthew Scott, 1976- Myth of digital democracy. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2009 (OCoLC)679405445 |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Matthew Scott Hindman |
ISBN: | 9780691138688 0691138680 9780691137612 0691137617 |
OCLC Number: | 192045578 |
Awards: | Goldsmith Book Prize, 2010. |
Description: | xiii, 181 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | The Internet and the "democratization" of politics -- The lessons of Howard Dean -- "Googlearchy" : the link structure of political websites -- Political traffic and the politics of search -- Online concentration -- Blogs : the new elite media -- Elite politics and the "missing middle" -- Appendix: On data and methodology. |
Responsibility: | Matthew Hindman. |
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Winner of the 2009 Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communications Policy Research, awarded by the Donald McGannon Communications Research Center Winner of the 2010 Goldsmith Book Prize (Academic Book) "Both utopian and dystopian interpretations have been made of the Internet's influence on many spheres of life--and democracy is no exception... Absent from much of this debate is evidence-based analysis of the effects of the Internet on the business of politics. Many theories have been built on nothing more than anecdote, inference and assertion. In The Myth of Digital Democracy, political scientist Matthew Hindman fills important gaps in the evidence base, and does so accessibly."--Richard Allan, Nature "[T]here is much in Hindman's book that is persuasive, counterintuitive, and important to understanding the moment."--Matt Bai, Democracy: A Journal "Matthew Hindman's The Myth of Internet Democracy is one of the first significant efforts to bring data to bear on the relationship between the internet and democracy. He argues against the journalists and pundits who have made sweeping claims about the internet's transformative potential for democracy, and suggests that the new online bosses are not very different from the old ones. Unlike earlier sceptics, however, he has some data to support his claims."--Times Higher Education "This is a well written short book about one aspects of online politics, namely who gets read and heard when it comes to online political debate, which I recommend to any reader interested in the relation between the internet and democratic values. The book is well organized and most of content is accessible to a general readership."--Olle Blomberg, Metapsychology Online Reviews "Hindman convincingly challenges seemingly sensible claims that online communications are expanding public voice, weakening gatekeeper power, and engaging broader swaths of the citizenry in politics... By bringing new data and methods to bear in a serious critique of what were becoming consensus views about the Internet's role in public life, Hindman offers more than just another set of volleys over the net of ongoing academic debates."--John Kelly, Perspectives on Politics "The Myth of Digital Democracy ... make[s] a significant contribution to the scholarship on e-democracy."--Wendy N. Wyatt, Journal of Mass Media Ethics "Hindman's The Myth of Digital Democracy makes it possible to visualize the whole elephant. Comprehensiveness and rich data support Hindman's central claim about inegalitarian outcomes of the interactions of Internet and politics, and provide an excellent starting point for future research."--Meelis Kitsing, Journal of Politics Read more...


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