Information Technology and Politics
40-3   Legislatures and Internet Use: Governing and Campaigning

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Date: Saturday, Sep 5, 4:15 PM
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Location: Convention Centre 803B

Location subject to change. Check the Final Program issued upon arrival at the conference for updates and actual room numbers.
Co-sponsored by 38-17
Chair: Geoffery William Seaver
IRM College, seaverg@ndu.edu

Author(s):
Representation as Communication: An Analysis of the Information Environment of Local Government Elected Officials
Michael J. Jensen
University of California, Irvine, mjensen@uci.edu

Timeless Strategy Meets New Medium: Going Negative on Congressional Campaign Websites, 2002-2006
Michael Parkin
Oberlin College, michael.parkin@oberlin.edu
  James N. Druckman
  Northwestern University, druckman@northwestern.edu
  Martin Kifer
  University of Minnesota, kife0003@umn.edu

Would You Ask Turkeys to Mandate Thanksgiving? The Dismal Politics of Legislative Transparency
J.H. Snider
iSolon.org, snider@isolon.org

Diffusion of Web Innovations among Members of Congress
Kevin M. Esterling
University of California, Riverside, kevin.esterling@ucr.edu
  David Lazer
  Harvard University, davelazer@gmail.com
  Michael Neblo
  Ohio State University, neblo.1@osu.edu

Social Networks in Political Campaigns: Facebook and Congressional Elections 2006, 2008
Christine B. Williams
Bentley University, cwilliams@bentley.edu
  Girish J. Gulati
  Bentley College, JGulati@bentley.edu