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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. The author examines the idea that the Internet leads to a broadening of political discourse and gives new voice to individuals who have not been part of the discussion in the past. His findings are depressing, but not too surprising to someone who is a politics watcher. Instead of looking, like most people do, at who is speaking on the Internet, he turns it around and looks at who is being heard. He examines the sites with the biggest traffic and evaluates the demographics not only of who writes the sites, but who reads them. His answers may surprise a lot of people. One downside of the book is that it is very jargony, with a lot of discussion of statistical analyses. If a person does not understand the concept of a long tail, and is not reasonably savvy in computer-speak, there are large chunks that might leave them behind. While I am pleased to have the statistics laid out so extensively, I fear this might make the book a lot less accessible to a lay audience. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Is the Internet democratizing American politics? Do political Web sites and blogs mobilize inactive citizens and make the public sphere more inclusive? The Myth of Digital Democracy reveals that, contrary to popular belief, the Internet has done little to broaden political discourse but in fact empowers a small set of elites--some new, but most familiar. Matthew Hindman argues that, though hundreds of thousands of Americans blog about politics, blogs receive only a miniscule portion of Web traffic, and most blog readership goes to a handful of mainstream, highly educated professionals. He shows how, despite the wealth of independent Web sites, online news audiences are concentrated on the top twenty outlets, and online organizing and fund-raising are dominated by a few powerful interest groups. Hindman tracks nearly three million Web pages, analyzing how their links are structured, how citizens search for political content, and how leading search engines like Google and Yahoo! funnel traffic to popular outlets. He finds that while the Internet has increased some forms of political participation and transformed the way interest groups and candidates organize, mobilize, and raise funds, elites still strongly shape how political material on the Web is presented and accessed. The Myth of Digital Democracy. debunks popular notions about political discourse in the digital age, revealing how the Internet has neither diminished the audience share of corporate media nor given greater voice to ordinary citizens. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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