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Park, Hyung Lae. and Jang, Jae won. "Internet Effects on Voting:Political Internet Users VS Non-Political Internet Users" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois, Apr 15, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p82423_index.html>

Park, H. and Jang, J. , 2004-04-15 "Internet Effects on Voting:Political Internet Users VS Non-Political Internet Users" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p82423_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Theory: Recent Internet related literatures showed that the Internet reinforces likely voters but fail to recruits unlikely voters. However most researches did not account the purpose of Internet usage, especially its use for political purpose. Despite of uncountable political information within the Internet, non-political internet users tend not to access political information. Thus, Internet effects on voting are actually appeared only among political-Internet users. Since netizens use the Internet self-selectively, the research about the Internet effects on voting should consider the purpose of the Internet usage and the degree of Internet usage. Hypothesis: Since Internet is an active rather than passive information access tool, political internet users are more willingly to access political information than general Internet users. It naturally reinforces likely voters to vote and recruits unlikely voters to vote. However, for those non-political users as well as non-users, the Internet is not a powerful political means no matter how much they use the Internet. Data: Telephone survey was conducted in the spring of 2003 (from March to June) by Social Behavior Research Institution at Purdue University. Method: Series of questions asked to measure respondents’ usage of Internet for political purpose. Discriminant analysis is used for clarifying likely voters and unlikely voters. Crosstable will be produced to compare estimated turnout and actual turnout to see whether Internet performs reinforce role or recruitment role among political Internet users, general Internet users and non-users. Anticipated result: For political users, both reinforcement role among likely voters and recruitment role among unlikely voters will be confirmed. For general Internet users, only reinforce role will be confirmed among likely voters. However, there is no difference significantly between general Internet users and non-users both reinforcement and recruitment role indicating in fact no Internet effects for general Internet users and non-users. Implication: Most Internet users are specific-information finder rather than mindless suffers. The effects of the Internet in political attitude as well as other attitude do significantly rely on the degree of Internet usage and the purpose of using Internet. To measure Internet effects appropriately, knowing how much do they use and what their purposes is the first thing to do. It will help Internet-Information-providers to draw maximum effect.

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