You know, new job, new projects, quite a bit of travelling involved.I will keep posting, on issues related to new media and governance, both ways. That is, the regulation of new media; and n… Read More

Another 10 for you, again tyding up my digital library.If you have any papers in the pipeline, send a line and I’ll include.Bentivegna, S. (2006). Rethinking Politics in the World of I… Read More

Please find a list of Internet and politics papers presented on the first two days of ICA, in San Franscisco. I will post the second batch next week, as it takes a lot of time. Hoping to ser… Read More

The book Government communication in Australia, edited by Sally Young, is out in May with CUP.We have a chapter in, an ampirical account of all things ‘e-’ in Australia (e-govern… Read More

One liner to link to this new Politics, PR and Marketing blog, edited by Darren Lilleker [Bournemouth]. Pretty neat in-depth chronicle of politics and its communication in Britain. Refereshi… Read More

According to recent research by Eva Campos Domínguez, not many Spanish MPs currently have a weblog. The article, published on the excellent Observatorio para la CIBERSOCIEDAD website… Read More

I uploaded a paper recently presented at the PSA annual conference [2007] to the publications section of my website.Namely:Gibson, R. K., Lusoli, W., & Ward, S. (2007). The Australian pu… Read More

In case you missed the MIT event, Beyond Broadcast 2007. Most video presentations , a few of the papers and notes from the working groups are online, with a wealth of additional material.Bu… Read More

This is MySpace portal for US presidential elections. Not only that, however; it purports to showcase the use of the site for non-profit, civic and political aims, broadly defined. Very wort… Read More

In the process of tidying up the cyber-desk, I stumbled across these two PDFs, defintely oldies but goodies.Well worth a read if you are interested in protest, activism, oppositional politic… Read More

Pencil this in your diaries, the deadline for receipt of the abstracts [500-1000 words] is 17 April 2007Changing politics through digital networks: The role of ICTs in the formation of new s… Read More

Always a pleasure to re-broadcast material from the Pew - 2006 US election online in this case.Twice as many Americans used the internet as their primary source of news about the 2006 campai… Read More

Call for articles to be published in a special issue of theJournal of Information Technology and Politics (JITP)“Understanding eParticipation”Special Issue Guest Editors:Ann Maci… Read More

EU COST conference in Moscow, 23-25 May 2007Call for PapersPolitics Online: Comparative Perspectives, Theories & Methodological InnovationsContributions are invited for two conference se… Read More

EU COST conference in Moscow, 23-25 May 2007Call for PapersPolitics Online: Comparative Perspectives, Theories & Methodological InnovationsContributions are invited for two conference se… Read More

Online, that is [and not for long, Gordon was spotted logging in surreptitiously...]http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Still rubbing my eyes in disbeliefAny thoughts, anyone? Read More

Of recent, I have been doing a little, impressionistic survey of added-value Internet use in the 2006 mid-term election [you need to start somewhere!].As the dust begins to settle, overviews… Read More

A short, informative study on the use of the Internet [specifically blogs] in 2006 Congress campaign, vis-a-vis the 2002 campaign. The study coners the e-campaign of senatorial candidates on… Read More

A fine new piece on Danish party members online, by Karina Pedersen. Not just because she refs some of the papers on party members we've written, mind you [read abstract, below; and read the… Read More

The last was an interesting issue of I-WAYS: Digest of Electronic Government Policy and Regulation. It includes overviews and updates on e-government form the EU [penned by Vivianne Reading]… Read More

This is making waves in the business press, so it must be happening. Quite a bit of talk about political and campaign uses of the web 2, in a range of EU countries. This is surprising, mind… Read More

This is a Canadian institution helping other bodies run e-consulations, in the name of e-democracy. There is a link to papers and publication on the subject that could interest academics as… Read More

Looks like a big e-governmant day. Here is another string of reports on the state of e-gov in the EU25 + 7 related countries.---------------------------------------EU: eGovernment in the Eur… Read More

This website provides data, research and publications from the eUser project.It provides both supply and demand data on e-government from ten EU countries. Well worth browsing around, and do… Read More

Possibly this is of interest for PhD students in e-government, e-participation and related e-disciplines. That is, the ins and outs of doing online surveys. Oh, joy, if you ask me. But they… Read More

You'd be excused if you missed this, not much publicity I have to say.I still have not read it properly, busy with teaching at present. But it looks impressive, the last in a long series of… Read More