Sean Richey, J. Benjamin Taylor

Google and Democracy (eBook, PDF)

Politics and the Power of the Internet

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Produktbeschreibung

Sean Richey and J. Benjamin Taylor explore for the first time the influence of Google on American politics. Google and Democracy is an original addition to the literature on the direct democracy and information technology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351658720
• Artikelnr.: 49261424

Autorenporträt

Sean Richey is Associate Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University, U.S.A. He was a Fulbright Fellow from 2013-2014 at the University of Tokyo. He was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Tokyo between 2004 and 2006. He researches American politics with a specialization in elections, voting behavior, public opinion, and quantitative methodology. His research has appeared in two peer-reviewed books, and in academic journals articles in Political Research Quarterly, the British Journal of Political Science, Political Communication, Political Behavior, International Studies Quarterly, and others.

J. Benjamin Taylor is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, U.S.A. He researches and teaches courses on American political behavior with a focus on the effect of media on political behavior and attitudes. He has published a peer-reviewed book, Extreme Media and American Politics: In Defense of Extremity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), and has published articles in Political Communication, State Politics & Policy Quarterly, American Politics Research, Politics & Religion, and Presidential Studies Quarterly.

The authors were featured in an interview with the Washington Post here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/12/22/heres-how-google-is-helping-not-hurting-democracy/?utm_term=.b86c169aa722

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Direct Democracy, Political Knowledge, and the Internet 2.
Internet Politics & The Computer Science of Google 3. Google Search Returns
on Ballot Measures 4. Click Behavior and Direct Democracy 5. Learning
Happens: Political Knowledge and Three Ballot Measures 6. Internet Research
and Intellectually-Secure Decisions in Direct Democracy 7. Real-World
Applications: Does Google Use Correlate with Real-World Political Behavior?
8. Conclusions & Directions for Future Research