Zusatztext Highly recommended. Informationen zum Autor Assistant Professor in the Rutgers University School of Communication and Information, as well as a Faculty Associate at the Eagleton Institute of Politics and a Visiting Fellow with the Yale Information Society Project Klappentext The Internet is facilitating a generational transition among American political advocacy organizations. This book provides a detailed exploration of how "netroots" advocacy groups - MoveOn.org, DailyKos.com, DemocracyforAmerica.com, and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee - differ from "legacy" peer organizations. It also explains the partisan character of these technological innovations. Zusammenfassung The Internet is facilitating a generational transition among American political advocacy organizations. This book provides a detailed exploration of how "netroots" advocacy groups - MoveOn.org, DailyKos.com, DemocracyforAmerica.com, and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee - differ from "legacy" peer organizations. It also explains the partisan character of these technological innovations.

Highly recommended.

Autorentext
Assistant Professor in the Rutgers University School of Communication and Information, as well as a Faculty Associate at the Eagleton Institute of Politics and a Visiting Fellow with the Yale Information Society Project

Klappentext

The Internet is facilitating a generational transition among American political advocacy organizations. This book provides a detailed exploration of how "netroots" advocacy groups - MoveOn.org, DailyKos.com, DemocracyforAmerica.com, and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee - differ from "legacy" peer organizations. It also explains the partisan character of these technological innovations.

Inhalt

Preface Chapter 1: The New Generation of Political Advocacy Groups Chapter 2: The MoveOn Effect: Disruptive Innovation in the Interest Group Ecology of American Politics Chapter 3: Political Blogs as Politcal Associations Chapter 4: " Neo-Federated Political Associations Chapter 5: Netroots as Networks - Building Progressive Infrastructure Chapter 6: Don't Think of an Online Elephant Chapter 7: Innovation Edges, Advocacy Inflation and Sedimentary Organizations Research Appendix Bibliography Index