Reprint. Originally published: 2009

Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-486) and index.

Introduction : new directions in Internet politics research / Andrew Chadwick and Philip N. Howard -- The Internet in U.S. election campaigns / Richard Davis ... [et al.] -- European political organizations and the Internet : mobilization, participation, and change / Stephen Ward and Rachel Gibson -- Electoral web production practices in cross-national perspective : the relative influence of national development, political culture, and web genre / Kirsten A. Foot ... [et al.] -- Parties, election campaigning, and the Internet : toward a comparative institutional approach / Nick Anstead and Andrew Chadwick -- Technological change and the shifting nature of political organizations / Burce Bimber, Cynthia Stohl, and Andrew J. Flanagin -- Making parliamentary democracy visible : speaking to, with, and for the public in the age of interactive technology / Stephen Coleman -- Bureaucratic reform and e-government : the emergence of digital-era governance / Helen Margetts -- Wired to fact : the role of the Internet in identifying deception during the 2004 U.S. presidential campaign / Bruce W. Hardy, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, and Kenneth Winneg -- Political engagement online : do the information rich get richer and the like-minded more similar? / Jennifer Brundidge and Ronald E. Rice -- Information, the Internet and direct democracy / Justin Reedy and Chris Wells -- Toward digital citizenship : addressing inequality in the information age / Karen Mossberger -- Online news creation and consumption : implications for modern democracies / David Tewksbury and Jason Rittenberg -- Web 2.0 and the transformation of news and journalism / James Stanyer -- The Internet and the changing global media environment / Brian McNair -- The virtual sphere 2.0 : the Internet, the public sphere, and beyond / Zizi Papacharissi -- Identity, technology, and narratives : transnational activism and social networks / W. Lance Bennett and Amoshaun Toft -- Theorizing gender and the Internet : past, present, and future / Niels van Doorn and Liesbet van Zoonen -- New immigrants, the Internet, and civic society / Yong-Chan Kim and Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach -- One Europe, digitally divided / Jan A. G. M. van Dijk -- Working around the state : Internet use and political identity in the Arab world / Deborah L. Wheeler -- The geopolitics of Internet control : censorship, sovereignty, and cyberspace / Ronald J. Deibert -- Locational surveillance : embracing the patterns of our lives / David J. Phillips -- Metaphoric reinforcement of the virtual fence : factors shaping the political economy of property in cyberspace / Oscar H. Gandy, Jr. and Kenneth Neil Farrall -- Globalizing the logic of openness : open source software and the global governance of intellectual property / Christopher May -- Exclusionary rule? : the politics of protocols / Greg Elmer -- The new politics of the Internet : multi-stakeholder policy-making and the Internet technocracy / William H. Dutton and Malcolm Peltu -- Enabling effective multi-stakeholder participation in global Internet governance through accessible cyber-infrastructure / Derrick L. Cogburn -- Internet diffusion and the digital divide : the role of policy-making and political institutions / Kenneth S. Rogerson and Daniel Milton -- Conclusion : political omnivores and wired states / Philip N. Howard and Andrew Chadwick.