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If You Build a Political Website Will They Come? The Supply and Demand Model of New Technology, Social Capital, and Civic Engagement in Britain

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Synopsis: The core issue for this study concerns the social and political consequences of the rise of knowledge societies, in particular the capacity of the Internet for strengthening democratic participation, social capital, and civic engagement in Britain. To consider these issues, Part I summarizes debates about the impact of the Internet on the public sphere. The main influence of this development, it is theorized in a market model, will be determined by the ‘supply’ and ‘demand’ for electronic information and communications about government and politics. Demand, in turn, is assumed to be heavily dependent upon the social characteristics of Internet users and their prior habitual political orientations. Given this understanding, the study predicts that the primary impact of knowledge societies in democratic societies will be upon facilitating cause-oriented and civic forms of political activism, thereby strengthening social movements, voluntary associations, and interest groups, more than upon conventional channels of political participation, exemplified by voting, parties, and election campaigns. Part II summarizes the sources of data and the key measures of political activism used in this study, drawing upon the British Social Attitudes Survey, 2003. Part III examines the evidence for the relationship between use of the Internet and indicators of civic engagement. The conclusion in Part IV summarizes the results and considers the broader implications for governance, society, and democracy.

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Norris, Pippa. and Curtice, John. "If You Build a Political Website Will They Come? The Supply and Demand Model of New Technology, Social Capital, and Civic Engagement in Britain" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL, Sep 02, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p61867_index.html>

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Norris, P. and Curtice, J. , 2004-09-02 "If You Build a Political Website Will They Come? The Supply and Demand Model of New Technology, Social Capital, and Civic Engagement in Britain" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p61867_index.html

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Abstract: Synopsis: The core issue for this study concerns the social and political consequences of the rise of knowledge societies, in particular the capacity of the Internet for strengthening democratic participation, social capital, and civic engagement in Britain. To consider these issues, Part I summarizes debates about the impact of the Internet on the public sphere. The main influence of this development, it is theorized in a market model, will be determined by the ‘supply’ and ‘demand’ for electronic information and communications about government and politics. Demand, in turn, is assumed to be heavily dependent upon the social characteristics of Internet users and their prior habitual political orientations. Given this understanding, the study predicts that the primary impact of knowledge societies in democratic societies will be upon facilitating cause-oriented and civic forms of political activism, thereby strengthening social movements, voluntary associations, and interest groups, more than upon conventional channels of political participation, exemplified by voting, parties, and election campaigns. Part II summarizes the sources of data and the key measures of political activism used in this study, drawing upon the British Social Attitudes Survey, 2003. Part III examines the evidence for the relationship between use of the Internet and indicators of civic engagement. The conclusion in Part IV summarizes the results and considers the broader implications for governance, society, and democracy.

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`IF YOU BUILD A POLITICAL WEBSITE...' NORRIS AND CURTICE 8/20/2004 1:16 PM August 20 2004 If you build a political website will they come? The supply and demand model of new technology social capital and civic engagement in Britain. Pippa Norris (Harvard University) and John Curtice (Strathclyde University) Pippa Norris John Curtice McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics Professor of Politics John F. Kennedy School of Government Department of Government Harvard University McCance Building Strathclyde University Cambridge MA 02138 Glasgow
22 `IF YOU BUILD A POLITICAL WEBSITE...' NORRIS AND CURTICE 8/20/2004 1:16 PM Endnotes: 1 See http://weblogs.about.com/cs/2004uscampaign/a/2004campaign.htm 2 See www.pewinternet.org 3 Since the dimensions are theoretically defined and constructed based on understanding the role of different forms of participation in representative democracy the study did not use factor analysis to generate the classification or measurement. 4 It should be noted that the BSA survey monitored `party and trade union' membership but the latter was also measured separately so in


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