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This title provides a portrait of the role of campaign web sites in American elections. How do candidates use the Internet to gain or reinforce voter support? Are voters influenced by what they see on candidate's web sites? Do they learn anything? The authors answer these questions using data and evidence about the 2000 election.

Elections. --- Internet in political campaigns. --- Internet in political campaigns - United States. --- Internet in political campaigns --- Elections --- Government - U.S. --- Law, Politics & Government --- Political Rights - U.S. --- Political campaigns --- Computer network resources --- #SBIB:041.AANKOOP --- #SBIB:309H271 --- #SBIB:324H42 --- #SBIB:324H60 --- Electoral politics --- Franchise --- Polls --- Political science --- Politics, Practical --- Plebiscite --- Representative government and representation --- Politieke communicatie: toepassingsgebieden --- Politieke structuren: verkiezingen --- Politieke socialisatie --- Computer network resources.

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Challenging the notion that digital media render traditional, formal organizations irrelevant, this book offers a new theory of collective action and organizing. Based on extensive surveys and interviews with members of three influential and distinctive organizations in the United States - The American Legion, AARP and MoveOn - the authors reconceptualize collective action as a phenomenon in which technology enhances people's ability to cross boundaries in order to interact with one another and engage with organizations. By developing a theory of Collective Action Space, Bimber, Flanagin and Stohl explore how people's attitudes, behaviors, motivations, goals and digital media use are related to their organizational involvement. They find that using technology does not necessarily make people more likely to act collectively, but contributes to a diversity of 'participatory styles', which hinge on people's interaction with one another and the extent to which they shape organizational agendas. In the digital media age, organizations do not simply recruit people into roles, they provide contexts in which people are able to construct their own collective experiences.

Sociology of organization --- Lobbying --- Pressure groups --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- AARP (Organization) --- American Legion --- MoveOn.org. --- MoveOn.org --- American Legion. --- AARP, Inc. --- American Association of Retired Persons --- Lobbying - United States --- Pressure groups - United States --- Associations, institutions, etc. - United States --- Social Sciences --- Political Science