40-2-2009

40-2   Theme Panel: Web 2.0 and Social Media in the 2008 Elections and Beyond

Date: Friday, Sep 4, 4:15 PM

Location subject to change. Check the Final Program issued upon arrival at the conference for updates and actual room numbers. Co-sponsored by T-18

Chair: Antoinette Pole
Montclair State University, [email protected]

Author(s): Examining the Impact of Web 2.0 and Social Media on Political Participation and Civic Engagement in the 2008 Obama Campaign

Derrick L. Cogburn American University, [email protected]   Fatima K. Espinoza Vasquez   Syracuse University, [email protected]

Identity and Group Politics in the 2008 Presidential Candidate Websites

Kimberly A. Mealy APSA, [email protected]

Cyberactivism in the Pre- and Post-Election Period of the Obama Administration

Jongwoo Han Syracuse University, [email protected]   Ines A. Mergel   Syracuse University, [email protected]

What if you had a choice?

George Robert Boynton University of Iowa, [email protected]

I Hear America Texting and Other Themes for a Virtual Polis: Rethinking Democracy in the Global InfoTech Age

Renee Marlin-Bennett Johns Hopkins University, [email protected]

Discussant(s): Kenneth S. Rogerson
Duke University, [email protected]