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The Hyperlinked Society and the Online Public Sphere |
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Written by Matt
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Friday, 23 May 2008 |
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Another edited volume to which I've contributed has made it to press. The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age, edited by Joe Turow and Lokman Tsui , has come out from DigitalCultureBooks, a new imprint of the University of Michigan Press.  My contribution is entitled "What is the Online Public Sphere Good For"? My very short answer: scandals and fact-checking, but NOT giving ordinary citizens greater voice in politics. I am particularly critical of what I term "trickle up" theories of online discourse. Scholars like Yochai Benkler , Daniel Drezner , and Henry Farrell are right about many things, but I argue that their vision of an accessible, bottom-up political discourse doesn't fit with the available evidence. You can see a preprint of the chapter here . If you like what you read, the book can be purchased from Amazon here . |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 04 July 2008 )
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Infomation Government and Open Source Politics |
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Written by Matt
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Sunday, 30 September 2007 |
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 Governance and Information Technology: From Electronic Government to Information Government, the collected volume edited by David Lazer and Viktor Mayer-Schöenberger , is now out from MIT Press.
The volume includes my chapter "'Open Source Politics' Reconsidered: Emerging Patterns in Online Political Participation." My previous discussion of the chapter can be found here , and while you can find a preprint version of my chapter here . Better yet, click here to buy the book from Amazon. |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 04 July 2008 )
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Voice, Equality, and the Internet |
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Written by Matt
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Saturday, 09 June 2007 |
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 The book manuscript is finally off to reviewers. I'm glad to have the project off of my desk, and onto the desks of others. But it also means that I have a relatively polished book manuscript ready for general perusal. Click here if you would like to read it. (Warning--the link is to a 650 KB .pdf file.) I would love to hear comments and criticisms. I'm also offering a $.10 bounty for every typo found. First come, first served. |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 09 June 2007 )
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Amos, Andy, 'n' the APSA: Political Scientists, the Public and the Origin of Commercial Broadcasting |
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Written by Matt
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Monday, 16 April 2007 |
 APSA on the air There is a strange omission in these debates. In calling for political science to have a "stronger public presence" (in Putnam's words), scholars have ignored the historical period when the public presence of political science was at its zenith. |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 09 June 2007 )
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Campaign Politics and the Digital Divide |
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Written by Matt
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Tuesday, 03 April 2007 |
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Much has been written about the digital divide in recent years. Yet while scholars have closely examined citizen Internet use, the factors that inspire candidates to campaign online have received little notice. No one can visit campaign Websites if candidates don't put them online in the first place. The article (coauthored with Paul Herrnson and Atiya Stokes-Brown) uses a large, national  survey of state legislative candidates in an attempt to figure out what, exactly, drives office seekers to invest in email and the Web. While constituency characteristics matter, strategic considerations and candidate background play a larger and more consistent role. Click here for a .pdf file of the paper, which appeared in Political Research Quarterly. Full citation and abstract below the fold. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 11 June 2007 )
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I am pleased to report that my book