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Matthew Hindman is an assistant professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University. His research interests include American politics, political communication, and (especially) online politics. 
You can email him at hindman -at- gmail -dot- com.

 
 
 
 
Image  My book The Myth of Digital Democracy was published in January 2009 by Princeton University Press. From the back cover: "The book debunks popular notions about political discourse in the digital age, revealing how the Internet has neither diminished the audience share of corporate media nor given greater voice to ordinary citizens."

The Myth of Digital Democracy has won both Harvard's Goldsmith Book Prize and the Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communications Policy Research. Click here to listen to me talk about the book on NPR's On The Media. You can order the book online from Amazon.com or directly from Princeton University Press.
 
A Mile Wide and an Inch Deep: Measuring the Diversity of Political Content Online PDF Print E-mail
Written by Matt   
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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