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Matthew Hindman is an assistant professor of political science at Arizona State University. His research interests include American politics, political communication, and (especially) online politics. 
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A Mile Wide and an Inch Deep: Measuring the Diversity of Political Content Online PDF Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 07 June 2006

Claims that the Internet is going to transform politics are, nearly always, comparative.   Academic and popular observers have long assumed that the Internet would diffuse audiences away from print and broadcast media, to the wealth of tiny new outlets that the Internet would provide.

This book chapter gathers data and adapts metrics in order to test these claims about the online information environment. 

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Print v. pixels
It suggests that, in terms of the content that people actually see, the Internet is hardly a radical break with the broadcast model.  

For a .pdf of the chapter, click here .  The full citation is below:

 Hindman, Matthew. 2006. “A Mile Wide and an Inch Deep: Measuring the Diversity of Political Content Online.” In Philip Napoli, editor, Localism and Media Diversity: Meaning and Metrics. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

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Arizona State University 
ASU Box 873902, Tempe, AZ 85287-3902
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