Cyberpolitics is a term widely employed across the world, largely by academics interested in analyzing its breadth and scope, of the use of the
Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the Global network, global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a internetworking, network of networks ...
for political activity. It embraces all forms of
social software
Social software, also known as social apps or social platform includes communications and interactive tools that are often based on the Internet. Communication tools typically handle capturing, storing and presenting communication, usually writt ...
. Cyberpolitics includes:
journalism
Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree of accuracy. The word, a noun, applies to the journ ...
,
fundraising
Fundraising or fund-raising is the process of seeking and gathering voluntary financial contributions by engaging individuals, businesses, charitable foundations, or governmental agencies. Although fundraising typically refers to efforts to gathe ...
,
blog
A blog (a Clipping (morphology), truncation of "weblog") is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries also known as posts. Posts are typically displayed in Reverse chronology, reverse chronologic ...
ging, volunteer recruitment, and organization building.
The campaign of
Howard Dean
Howard Brush Dean III (born November 17, 1948) is an American physician, author, consultant, and retired politician who served as the 79th governor of Vermont from 1991 to 2003 and chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from 2005 to 20 ...
, in which a previously little-known former Democratic governor of a small state emerged for a while as the front runner for the
2004 Democratic presidential nomination on the strength of his campaign's skill in cyberpolitics, was a wake-up call to the American political establishments of political parties around the United States as to the importance of cyberpolitics as both a concept and as a series of organizational and communications strategies.
Books on American cyberpolitics
* Kevin A. Hughes and John E. Hill, ''Cyberpolitics; Activism in the Age of the Internet'' (1998)
* Tom Price, ''
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History
Nels ...
Cyberpolitics'' v.14-32 (2004)
* Ed Schwartz, ''How Citizens Use the Internet'' (1997)
* W.Van DeDunk, ''Cyberprotest: New Protest, New Media, Citizens and Social Movements'' (2004)
Books on world cyberpolitics in English language
*
Nazli Choucri''Cyberpolitics in International Relations''(2012)
* Gustave Cardoso & Manuel Castelli, ''The Media in the Network Society; Browsing, News, Filters, and Citizenship'' (2007)
* Randy Kluver, Kirsten Foot, Nick Jankowski, and Steve Schneider
''The Internet and National Elections: A Comparative Study of Web Campaigning''(2007)
*
Shanthi Kalathil
Shanthi Kalathil (born 1972) is an American foreign policy analyst and former journalist, currently serving as a Washington D.C.–based senior fellow at the University of Southern California's Center on Communication Leadership and Policy and ...
and Taylor C. Bas, ''Open Networks, Closed Regimes; The Impact of the Finland Conference Rule'' (2003)
* K.C. Ho, Randy Kluver, and C.C. Yang
''Asia.Com; Asia Encounters the Internet''(2003)
* Mark McClelland, ''Japanese Cyberculture'' (2003)
* Pippa Noris, ''Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide'' (2001)
* Philip Seib, ''New Media and the Middle East'' (2007)
* Ari-Veiko Anttiroiko (editor), Mattia Malkic (editor), ''Encyclopedia Of Digital Government'' (2006)
Books on world cyberpolitics in languages other than English
* Nezir Akyesilmen, ''Disiplinlerararsı Bir Yaklaşımla Siber Politika ve Siber Güvenlik'', Ankara: Orion Kitapevi
* Andrea Manica, ''Cyberpolitics: Guida Ni Siti Politici Su Internet''
* Miriam Meckel, ''Cyberpolitics und Cyberpolity, Zur Virtualisierung Politischer Kommunikation''
* Carmen Beatriz Fernández, ''Ciberpolitica: Como Usamos Las Nuevas Herramientas en la Politica LatinoAmericana?'', Konrad Adenauer Stittfung, Buenos Aires 2008
References
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External links
World politics, English Language
World politics, languages other than English
* KAS Peter-Alberto Behrens, Bernd Löhmann, Doris Réniz Caballero, Carmen Beatriz Fernández, Octavio Islas, Ana Jacoby, Celedonio von Wuthenau, Berlin, 27. March 201
''Politik und Internet in Lateinamerika''(2008)
* http://ciberpolitica.net
* http://cyberpolitics.com
* http://politnet.ru
* Fernandez, Carmen Beatriz
Study on Latinamerican Cyberpolitics(2008)
* Pereira Martins, Constantino
What is Cyberpolitics?(December 2013)
Blogging
Collaboration
Fundraising
Internet-based activism
Social networks