Bill: Steven's suggested thematic divisions for your multiple volume set on Internet & Politics seem valuable to me, but I would add a fourth category: Methodological Innovations in Research. Considerable pioneering work is being undertaken in this area, illustrated by Greg Elmer's group in Toronto (Infoscape; http://www.infoscapelab.ca/) and by some of Stuart Schulman's projects (see esp. Blog Analysis Toolkit, https://surveyweb2.ucsur.pitt.edu/qblog/page_login.php). See also a recent theme issue on methodological issues in doing Internet-based political research: http://www.javnost-thepublic.org/issue/2008/2/ Under Steven's category 'empirical studies', I would include our project on the web and elections (The Internet and National Elections; A Comparative study of Web Campaigning; Routledge, 2007; see http://ipa.tamu.edu/projects/Elections.asp). I would also add Wainer Lusoli's forthcoming study of Internet and UK elections (Voice and e-Quality: The State of Electronic Democracy in Britain, Hampton Press, 2009). Wish you success with this valuable project. Nick Jankowski At 02:34 22-7-2009, Stephen Coleman wrote:

This sounds like a very interesting project, Bill. In the interest of provoking some discussion, I'm responding via the open list. I suppose that I would categorise works under three broad headings: i) those that have reflected in interesting theoretical ways about new relationships of political mediation arising from the Internet; ii) empirical studies of particular projects, applications and institutional adaptations; and iii) policy analyses and proposals relating to the Internet and politics, ranging from open source software to WSIS to the evaluation of government-funded initiatives.

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So, you will have no problem in filling four volumes. It would be stimulating if some discussion within this list could not only guide your choices, but perhaps articulate some of the different ways in which scholars have made sense of the Internet-Politics literature.

Stephen Coleman

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