Information and American Democracy
Technology in the Evolution of Political Power
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6571595 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bruce Bimber (0000-0002-4458-5413), Bruce Allen Bimber |
| Year | 2003 |
| Pages | 268 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | INFORMATION AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: TECHNOLOGY IN THE EVOLUTION OF POLITICAL POWER. (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9780511615573 |
| ISBN | 9780511615573 |
| Open Library | OL22525056M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 265 |
| References cited | 70 |
This 2003 book assesses the consequences of new information technologies for American democracy in a way that is theoretical and also historically grounded. The author argues that new technologies have produced the fourth in a series of 'information revolutions' in the US, stretching back to the founding. Each of these, he argues, led to important structural changes in politics. After re-interpreting historical American political development from the perspective of evolving characteristics of information and political communications, the author evaluates effects of the Internet and related new media. The analysis shows that the use of new technologies is contributing to 'post-bureaucratic' political organization and fundamental changes in the structure of political interests. The author's conclusions tie together scholarship on parties, interest groups, bureaucracy, collective action, and political behavior with new theory and evidence about politics in the information age.
89.56 political communication · Communication · Communication en politique · Computer network resources · Democracy · Democratie · Demokratie · ICT · Informatie · Information society · Information Technology · Internet · Participation politique · Political aspects · Political participation · Politieke communicatie · Politieke participatie · Politische Kommunikation · Ressources Internet · Societe de l'information · Société informatisée · Technologie de l'information
Social Media and Democracy
Ciudadanías movedizas
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Political polarization as a co-adaptive process
Why Has News Production in the United States Remained Stable at a Time of Great Change?
Retooling Politics
Misinformation, Disinformation, and Online Propaganda
Good News for the Future? Young People, Internet Use, and Political Participation
Red Media, Blue Media, and Purple Media
Online Political Mobilization from the Advocacy Group's Perspective
Mediated Politics and Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century
The Case Against Mass E‐mails
It's Complicated
Social Media, Echo Chambers, and Political Polarization
From Editors to Algorithms
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Public Sphere Alienation
A Bigger Pie
Who Are the Enemies? The Visual Framing of Enemies in Digital Games
Star Power
The DC factor? Advocacy groups in the news
Weapon of the Strong? Participatory Inequality and the Internet
Understanding the Mechanics of Online Collective Action Using 'Big Data'
Digital democracy
The Effects of Digital Media Images on Political Participation Online
A sociotechnical perspective for the future of AI
Digital Transformation and the Frontier of China’s State Governance
Hacia una individualización de la política en redes
Critical factors in the institutionalization of e-participation in e-government in Europe
Blogging the Writers Strike
The effect of selective exposure on agenda diversity
Social media and the democratization of political participation
How the Internet has changed participation
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Four Functions of Digital Tools in Election Campaigns
Digital Threats to Democracy
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The Methodological Challenges of Studying “Fake News”
Scandal and military mediatization
The CNN effect reconsidered (again)
Internet Use and Protest Politics in South Korea and Taiwan
Political determinants of government transparency
New Media and Political Marketing in the United States
The American Internet Voter
The Involvement Process Through the Internet in the 2010 Italian Regional Elections
A Comparative Study of Nonprofit and For-Profit Web-Based Issue Advocacy
Political Brand Communities as Social Network Clusters
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How Types of Facebook Users Approach News Verification in the Mobile Media Age
Partisan Media Selectivity and Partisan Identity Threat
Online Media and Political Participation
Choosing the Right Media for Mobilization
Honey, I Shrunk the World! The Relation Between Internet Use and International Engagement
The role of emotional intelligence in agenda setting
Branding politics
Networks and the Future of Foreign Affairs Reporting
Internal Fragmentation of the News
Blogs and Journalistic Authority
A Constructivist Study of Trust in the News
A digital principal? Substantive representation in the case of the Italian Five Star Movement
More platforms, less attention to news? A multi-platform analysis of news exposure across TV, web, and YouTube in the United States
From the air to the ground
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Digital prefigurative participation
The ‘popular’ culture of internet activism
Two eras of civic information and the evolving relationship between civil society organizations and young citizens
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Young people, political participation and online postmaterialism in Greece
Understanding variations in user response to social media campaigns
Online news consumption research
Good citizenship as a frame contest
Weblogs, traditional sources online and political participation
Unraveling the effects of active and passive forms of political Internet use
Navigating the brogrammers and the boys’ club
Cooptation and cooperation
News finds me perception and democracy
Empirical support for the media participation hypothesis
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Accidental exposure to politics on social media as online participation equalizer in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom
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Online Participation in the UK
Constructing a digital storycircle
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New Mediated Deliberation
YouTube, Critical Pedagogy, and Media Activism
Forged Consensus
New Media and American Politics
The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
Digital Divide
Congressmen's Voting Decisions
Basic Interests
Citizens, Politics and Social Communication
Building a New American State
Outside Lobbying
Why Parties?
Mobilizing Interest Groups in America
A Mathematical Theory of Communication
The Reasoning Voter
Handbook of Science and Technology Studies
Origins of Democratic Culture
Where Is the Schema? Going Beyond the “S” Word in Political Psychology
Spreading the news
City of Bits
Power in Movement
Gen.com
The Internet and Political Mobilization
Tocqueville in Cyberspace
An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States
PACs, lobbies and political conflict
Gun Control in America
Centerstage
Rowland Hill and the Penny Post
Voice and Equality
Unchained reaction
NGOs, Local Governance, and Political Communication Processes in Germany
Learning about Politics from the Mass Media
The Political Efficacy of Lobbying and Money
The electronic republic? The role of the Internet in promoting democracy in Africa
Revitalizing the party system or Zeitgeist‐on‐line? Virtual party headquarters and virtual party branches in Germany
Holding on to Reality
Group Membership and the Mobilization of Political Participation
Who Gets the News? Alternative Measures of News Reception and Their Implications for Research
Madison on the Beneficial Effects of Interest Groups
The Internet and Political Transformation
Information and Political Engagement in America
Introduction
How to Combine Media Commercialization and Party Affiliation
The Internet and Citizen Communication With Government
Patterns of Internet and Traditional News Media Use in a Networked Community
The Homologous Evolution of Political Communication and Civic Engagement
Civic Engagement in the Era of Big Stories
The Study of Information Technology and Civic Engagement
Virtual Criticism
The Third Age of Political Communication
The Internet and the Democratization of Civic Culture
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Self-Interest, Symbolic Politics, and Public Attitudes Toward Gun Control
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Biased assimilation and attitude polarization
The Social Destiny of the Radio
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| Citations per year | 11.52 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Highly cited | Yes |