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   Bentley College, JGulati@bentley.edu

Discussant(s): Paul Manuel Aviles Baker
Georgia Institute of Technology, paul.baker@cacp.gatech.edu