Matthew Hindman

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. 

Print v. pixels

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.