[LINK] Use of the Internet in the Australian Federal Election

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Linkers may like to draw their own conclusions, from a
comparison of tweets by seasoned politician and Junior
Federal Minister Kate Lundy (Fed Labor) and newbie Jamie
Parker (NSW Greens)...(coincidental convergence on Burma?)

Kate Lundy
<http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/21839814.rss>

Jamie Parker
<http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/192450634.rss>

Marghanita

Tom Worthington wrote:
> Professor Rachel K. Gibson, Institute for Social Change, University of 
> Manchester, is researching how the Internet was used in the last UK and 
> Australian elections. She will talk on this in "What is 
> 'E-Participation'?", 4pm, 19 April 2011, at the Australian National 
> University in Canberra: 
> <http://politicsir.cass.anu.edu.au/seminar/rachel-gibson>.
> 
> I bumped into Rachel at an e-government lunch in Parliament House 
> yesterday. She commented that green voters were more active on-line in 
> Australia and Liberal Democrats in the UK. She suggested this was 
> because small parties have less money and so have to make more use of 
> low cost tools. However, I suspect that the Greens and Liberal Democrats 
> have a less centralised structure which allows grass roots membership 
> participation: 
> <http://blog.tomw.net.au/2011/04/government-20-at-parliment-house.html>.
> 
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> 
>      Seminar - Professor Rachel K. Gibson - Tuesday 19 April at 4pm 
> Professor Rachel K. Gibson, Institute for Social Change, University of 
> Manchester
>      4pm on Tuesday 19 April in the LJ Hume Centre (First Floor Copland 
> Building)
> 
>      What is 'E-Participation'?
> 
>      This paper uses original survey data from the 2010 UK election to 
> address the question of defining and measuring e-participation. Despite 
> over a decades' worth of research being conducted into the topic of 
> e-participation, a clear and commonly accepted definition of the 
> activity itself remains elusive. The talk will focus on ways in which 
> e-participation has been studied both conceptually and empirically, 
> drawing on the extensive literature that has examined offline 
> participation. Is e-participation simply an extension of existing forms, 
> differing only in mode? Or does it offer a new and qualitatively 
> different form of political engagement. After developing a typology of 
> e-participation we test it using confirmatory factor analysis. The 
> results indicate that different forms of e-participation can be 
> identified and that they have potentially different implications for 
> mobilisation of citizens.
> 
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> 
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