Hi Andrew / Lisa: I'm also curious about what is meant by 'new media political economies'. If you mean the market for political information and the business side of new media political campaigns, I have a piece called Digitizing the Social Contract: Producing American Political Culture in the Age of New Media, in Communication Review, 2003, 6:213245. page proofs are at http://faculty.washington.edu/pnhoward/publications/socialcontract.pdf. also coauthored a piece with Tema Milstein called Spiders, Spam, and Spyware: New Media and the Market for Political Information, coming out in Mia Consalvo's Internet Studies 1.0 (Peter Lang: 2003). preview at http://faculty.washington.edu/pnhoward/publications/howardmilstein.pdf. p. Phil Philip N. Howard Assistant Professor Department of Communication University of Washington http://faculty.washington.edu/pnhoward/