The Internet Election

by Williams, Andrew Paul; Tedesco, John C.

• ISBN13: 9780742540965
• ISBN10: 0742540960
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-05-31
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

Summary

The Internet Election analyzes the unprecedented role of the Web in the 2004 presidential campaign with an eye toward future elections. Leading political communication scholars cover grassroots organizing via the Internet, candidate e-mail strategies, blogs, online discourse about candidates' spouses, and the gendering of (other than presidential) candidates on Web sites. Political strategists and Internet enthusiasts, as well as political communication scholars, will welcome this well researched and informative book.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	1	(146)
Andrew Paul Williams and John C. Tedesco
1 Campaign Finance Reform and the Internet: Regulating Web Messages in the 2004 Election and Beyond	5	(16)
Clifford A. Jones
2 Web Campaigning by U.S. Presidential Primary Candidates in 2000 and 2004	21	(16)
Steven M. Schneider and Kirsten A. Foot
3 Webstyles in 2004: The Gendering of Candidates on Campaign Web Sites?	37	(20)
Mary Christine Banwart
4 Online Organization: Dean, Kerry, and Internet Politicking in the 2004 Iowa Caucus	57	(10)
Christopher C. Hull
5 Political Web Wars: The Use of the Internet for Political Advertising	67	(16)
Lynda Lee Kaid
6 Self-Referential and Opponent-Based Framing: Candidate E-Mail Strategies in Campaign 2004	83	(16)
Andrew Paul Williams
7 The Role of Campaign Web Sites in Promoting Candidates and Attracting Campaign Resources	99	(12)
Monica Postelnicu, Justin D. Martin, and Kristen D. Landreville
8 Joy and Sorrow of Interactivity on the Campaign Trail: Blogs in the Primary Campaign of Howard Dean	111	(22)
Jennifer Stromer-Galley and Andrea B. Baker
9 The Blogging of the President	133	(14)
Kaye D. Trammell
10 The Age of Reasons: Motives for Using Different Components of the Internet for Political Information	147	(22)
Barbara K. Kaye and Thomas J. Johnson
11 Discrediting Teresa: Wounded by Whispers on the Web	169	(18)
Ashli Quesinberry Stokes
12 Web Interactivity and Young Adult Political Efficacy	187	(16)
John C. Tedesco
Index	203	(8)
About the Editors and Contributors	211