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Parliamentary Affairs 2006 59(2):299-313; doi:10.1093/pa/gsl004
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The Internet and the Public: Online and Offline Political Participation in the United Kingdom

Corinna di Gennaro

Corinna di Gennaro is Survey Officer at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford

William Dutton

William Dutton is Professor of Internet Studies and Director of the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.

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DECADES of concern over a rise in political apathy and citizen disengagement from politics and public affairs has led to many initiatives in developed nations to foster higher levels of civic engagement and political participation. Over these decades, the promise of new information and communication technologies (ICTs), such as interactive cable communications and multimedia personal computers, has generated optimistic expectations of a more politically engaged public. The few empirical studies conducted in these early years tended to dash these hopes, finding major technological limitations, particularly due to the limited access to new ICTs.1 However, since the mid-1990s, the widespread diffusion of the Internet, along with an accumulating set of highly publicised Internet-enabled events, from Web-orchestrated protests at the 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial meetings in Seattle to Howard Dean’s unsuccessful 2003 Web-centred campaign for the Democratic Party primary elections in the United States have renewed optimism over the role . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   The backdrop of negative findings
 

   Methods and data
 

   Internet use in Britain
 

   Online and offline political engagement
 

   Political activists: online and offline
 

   Age and participation
 

   Internet ability and political participation
 

   Political interest and political efficacy versus technology
 

   Conclusions
 

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