Product Description: Government media-making, from official websites to whistleblowers' e-mail, and its sometimes unintended consequences.

Product Description: This study, using a new theoretical approach called cultural catalysis theory, argues that it was the diffusion of many communication technologies - not solely television - that contributed to a decline in Localism (participating in local political issues) and Cosmopolitanism.

Product Description: To provide a comprehensive evaluation of the internet in American democracy, Bruce Bimber sets the contemporary information revolution in historical context, asserting that past developments in American history offer important lessons for understanding how the internet is affecting politics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Advances in information technology are transforming democratic governance. Power over information has become decentralized, fostering new types of community and different roles for government. Part of a series originating from a program at the Kennedy School of Government, this book examines the impact of technology on governance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Winner of the 1997 McGannon Center Research Award Veterans of the high-definition TV wars of the 1980s, the authors, social scientists as well as technologists, came to see themselves as "chroniclers and students of an intriguing and serious techno-economic conflict...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Looks at the history of the media's influence on elections, discusses how new technology will change the future, and suggests ways to use it to strengthen our democracy