The Web of Politics: The Internet's Impact on the American Political System

Davis, Richard

ISBN 10: 019511485X / ISBN 13: 9780195114850

Published by Oxford University Press, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Web of Politics: The Internet's Impact on the American Political System
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019511485X
• ISBN 13: 9780195114850
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Is the Internet destined to upset traditional political power in the United States? This book answers with an emphatic "no." Author Richard Davis shows how current political players including candidates, public officials, and the media are adapting to the Internet and assuring that this new medium benefits them in their struggle for power. In doing so he examines the current function of the Internet in democratic politics--educating citizens, conducting electoral campaigns, gauging public opinion, and achieving policy resolution-- and the roles of current political actors in those functions. Davis's unconventional prediction concerning the Internet's impact on American politics warrants a closer look by anyone interested in learning how this new communication medium will affect us politically.

About the Author

Richard Davis is Associate Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University. He is the co-author of New Media and American Politics (with Diana Owen, Oxford, 1998), and the author of The Press and American Politics: The New Mediator, 2nd Ed. (1996), Decisions and Images: The Supreme Court and the Press (1994), and Politics and the Media (1994).