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Vaccari, Cristian. "Informative, But Not Engaging: Italian Parties’ Online Communication in the 2006 Elections" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, TBA, San Francisco, CA, May 23, 2007 <Not Available>. 2008-12-11 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p169715_index.html>

Vaccari, C. , 2007-05-23 "Informative, But Not Engaging: Italian Parties’ Online Communication in the 2006 Elections" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, TBA, San Francisco, CA Online <PDF>. 2008-12-11 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p169715_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: This research analyzes the online tools that Italian national parties employed in the 2006 parliamentary election. Overall, 27 web sites were analyzed at 3 stages of the campaign with a coding scheme that featured 79 categories, partially derived from the existing literature and partially introduced anew to measure recent emerging phenomena. Parties’ online efforts were scrutinized along three main lines of inquiry: information tools, participation tools, and professionalism. Results show that Italian national parties have reached a good proficiency level in terms of informing their online users and in adapting quite sophisticated production techniques, but still leave much to be desired in terms of maximizing the internet’s potential for participation and mobilization. Hypotheses of ‘normalization’ and ‘meritocracy’ in cyberspace are also tested, providing support for both theories.

Professionalization in Political Online Communication? German Party Web Sites in the 2002 and 2005 National Elections

Party Profiles on the Web. An Analysis of the Logfiles of Non-Partisan Interactive Political Internet Sites in the 2003 and 2004 Election Campaigns in Belgium.