Internet Politics Handbook.pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Internet Politics, edited by Andrew Chadwick and Philip N. Howard, explores the intersection of the internet and politics. The book is divided into four parts: Institutions, Behavior, Identities, and Law and Policy.

Institutions: The internet's impact on U.S. election campaigns is examined, with a focus on mobilization, participation, and change. European political organizations' use of the internet is also studied, highlighting its role in mobilization and participation. The relative influence of national development, political culture, and web genre on electoral web production practices is analyzed in a cross-national perspective. Parties' use of the internet in election campaigning is explored, with a focus on a comparative institutional approach. Technological change and its impact on the nature of political organization are discussed. The visibility of parliamentary democracy in the age of interactive technology is examined, as well as bureaucratic reform and e-government in the United States.

Behavior: The role of the internet in identifying deception during the 2004 U.S. presidential campaign is investigated, with a focus on fact-checking. Online political engagement and its relationship to information inequality are studied. The impact of the internet on direct democracy is examined, with a focus on information and participation. Digital citizenship and addressing inequality in the information age are discussed. Online news creation and consumption are analyzed, with implications for modern democracies. The transformation of news and journalism in the age of Web 2.0 is explored.

Identities: The internet's impact on the global media environment is examined, with a focus on the changing nature of media and communication. The virtual sphere 2.0 and its relationship to the public sphere are discussed. Transnational activism and social networks are studied, with a focus on identity and technology. Theorizing gender and the internet is explored, with a focus on past, present, and future perspectives. The internet's impact on new immigrants and civic society is examined. The digitally divided nature of Europe is discussed, as well as internet use and political identity in the Arab world.

Law and Policy: The geopolitics of internet control, including censorship and sovereignty, are examined. Locational surveillance and its implications for privacy are discussed. The metaphoric reinforcement of the virtual fence and its impact on property in cyberspace are explored. The global governance of intellectual property and open source software are studied. The politics of protocols and the new politics of the internet are discussed, with a focus on multi-stakeholder policy-making and the internet technocracy. Enabling effective multi-stakeholder participation in global internet governance through accessible cyber-infrastructure is also examined.