Workshop on Digital Media, Power, and Democracy in Election Campaigns, Washington DC, July 1-3

Workshop on Digital Media, Power, and Democracy in Election Campaigns, Washington DC, July 1-3

A quick note to update you on the (invitation-only) workshop that Jennifer Stromer-Galley and I are running in Washington next week on the theme of Digital Media, Power, and Democracy in Election Campaigns. This is part of the preparation for a special issue of the International Journal of Press/Politics, which Jennifer and I will edit.

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Report of the Commission on Civil Society and Democratic Engagement

Report of the Commission on Civil Society and Democratic Engagement

As you may have heard, the British government recently introduced a new bill to regulate lobbying and non-party campaigning during the year leading up to an election, without consulting any organisations and on a very rushed parliamentary timetable.

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New OUP Digital Politics Title: “Taking Our Country Back” by Daniel Kreiss

A further new title in the Oxford University Press book series I edit, Oxford Studies in Digital Politics, has just been published: Taking Our Country Back: The Crafting of Networked Politics from Howard Dean to Barack Obama, by Daniel Kreiss.

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