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Can the web revolutionise politics?
This book is a very enthusiastic and breathless account of how Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign gained momentum through the web.
Here's a taster:
"...it was the opening salvo in a revolution, the sound of hundreds of thousands of Americans turning off their televsions and embracing the only form of technology that has allowed them to be involved again, to gain control of a process that alienated them decades ago.
"In the coming weeks and months and years, these hundreds of thousands will be followed by millions, and this revolution will not be satisfied with overthrowing a corrupt and unresponsive political system...."
Tags: citizen-participation citizenship internet media-participation politics