Please note that I will focus on web campaigning and e-mobilisation, and the use of social networks to engage citizens.
Daria, There are several resources in this area . If you are interested in the "current" EU context , take a look at the Rosanna De Rosa's blog - a leading European expert in the field: http://www.politicaonline.it/ (in Italian) The blog also includes international resources: http://www.politicaonline.it/index.php?page_id=239 A selection of online resources is available on the website of the Political Lab at Stanford: http://pcl.stanford.edu/ . For example: • Media Systems, News Delivery and Citizens' Knowledge of Current Affairs "Transformation of the Public Sphere" essay by Shanto Iyengar and James Curran • Experimental Designs for Political Communication Research: Using New Technology and Online Participant Pools to Overcome the Problem of Generalizability Overview of online experimental research conducted by PCL • A New Era of Minimal Effects? The Changing Foundations of Political Communication, W.L. Bennett & S. Iyengar • Polarization in Less than Thirty Seconds: Continuous Monitoring of Voter Response to Campaign Advertising Feedback graphs and an example of an online feedback dial are available from the Senate Ad dial study. • Media Systems, Public Knowledge and Democracy: A Comparative Study, J. Curran, S. Iyengar, A. B. Lund & I. Salovaara-Moring • Media Politics: A Citizen's Guide There are interesting abstract discussing recent trends in the IR10.0 program, where you can also find author's names for contacts, more resources, etc. http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddzgskkg_33gfjbg39z Monica Murero