The Causes and Consequences of Political Blogging

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Author(s): Kevin Wallsten (California State University- Long Beach, USA)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 15
Source title: Encyclopedia of Cyber Behavior
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Zheng Yan (University at Albany - SUNY, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0315-8.ch085

Keywords: Cyber Behavior / Human Aspects of Technology / Information Science Reference / Social Sciences & Humanities

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“Blogging” has become an incredibly popular activity in recent years. Although political blogging broadly defined as a blog whose “content focuses on issues, events, and policy in a constituency, national, international, or party context” (Ferguson & Griffiths, 2006, p. 366) – constitutes only a small sliver of the overall blogosphere, it has attracted a great deal of attention from political scientists, mass communication specialists, and researchers interested in information technology. The primary focus of this attention has been on four central questions. First, what motivates political bloggers to blog about politics? Second, what is the nature of the politically oriented discussions found on political blogs? Third, what are the political consequences of political blogging? Finally, how have professional politicians used blogs in campaigns and once in office? This entry summarizes the existing literature into each of these questions and points to a number of issues that should be addressed in future studies of the causes and consequences of political blogging.

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