American Politics

WEB 2.0 AND POLITICS: THE 2008 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND AN E-POLITICS RESEARCH AGENDA.Wattal, Sunil; Schuff, David; Mandviwalla, Munir; Williams, Christine B.. MIS Quarterly, Dec2010, Vol. 34 Issue 4, p669-688

Benkler, Y. and Shaw A. (2010, March). Tale of Two Blogospheres:Discursive Practices Left and Right

Based on qualitative coding of the top 155 political blogs, our results reveal significant cross-ideological variations along several important dimensions. Notably, we find evidence of an association between ideological affiliation and the technologies, institutions, and practices of participation across political blogs. Sites on the left adopt more participatory technical platforms; are comprised of significantly fewer sole-authored sites; include user blogs; maintain more fluid boundaries between secondary and primary content; include longer narrative and discussion posts; and (among the top half of the blogs in our sample) more often use blogs as platforms for mobilization as well as discursive production.

A See-Through Society. Sifry, M. L.. Columbia Journalism Review, Jan/Feb2009, Vol. 47 Issue 5, p43-47, 5p

2012 presidential candidates `friend' social media