Politics on the nets wiring the political process

• Main Author: Rash, Wayne (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York W. H. Freeman 1997
• Subjects: Communication in politics > United States; World Wide Web; Internet > United States; Political participation > Computer networks > United States; Communication > Political aspects > United States
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• Item Description: Includes index
• Physical Description: xiii, 206 pages illustration (some colour) 24 cm
• ISBN: 9780716783244

Using the 1996 presidential elections as a way to gauge the effects of on-line services, Wayne Rash examines the degree to which different political entities used the nets effectively and also evaluates the impact of the nets on forms of communication that have traditionally affected the outcome of our elections. A well-known Washington-based journalist and authority on the Internet, Rash studies these and other issues raised by politics on-line: Did the nets play the key role in the 1996 political process that television played in 1960? Do the nets tend to give an edge to one end of the political spectrum over the other? Are fringe groups aided disproportionately by electronic communications?