The Web of Politics
The Internet's Impact on the American Political System
ISBN13: 9780195114850ISBN10: 019511485X
Paperback,
248 pages
Feb 1999,
In Stock
Price:
$35.00 (04)Description
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.Reviews
"A well-researched and finely detailed account of virtual politics today."--W. Lance Bennett, University of Washington
About the Author(s)
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).
