40-3-2009
Information Technology and Politics
40-3 Legislatures and Internet Use: governing and campaigning
Date: Saturday, Sep 5, 4:15 PM
Co-sponsored by 38-17
Chair: Geoffery William Seaver
IRM College, seaverg@ndu.edu
Representation as Communication: An Analysis of the Information Environment of Local Government Elected Officials
Michael J. Jensen University of California, Irvine, mjensen@uci.edu
Timeless Strategy Meets New Medium: Going Negative on Congressional Campaign Websites, 2002-2006
Michael Parkin Oberlin College, michael.parkin@oberlin.edu James N. Druckman Northwestern University, druckman@northwestern.edu Martin Kifer University of Minnesota, kife0003@umn.edu
Would You Ask Turkeys to Mandate Thanksgiving? The Dismal Politics of Legislative Transparency
J.H. Snider iSolon.org, snider@isolon.org
Diffusion of Web Innovations among Members of Congress
Kevin M. Esterling University of California, Riverside, kevin.esterling@ucr.edu David Lazer Harvard University, David_Lazer@harvard.edu Michael Neblo Ohio State University, neblo.1@osu.edu
Social Networks in Political Campaigns: Facebook and Congressional Elections 2006, 2008 Christine B. Williams Bentley University, cwilliams@bentley.edu Girish J. Gulati</strong> Bentley College, JGulati@bentley.edu
Discussant(s): Paul Manuel Aviles Baker
Georgia Institute of Technology, paul.baker@cacp.gatech.edu