Parliamentary Affairs - Advance Access http://pa.oxfordjournals.org Parliamentary Affairs - RSS feed of articles 1460-2482 Parliamentary Affairs 0031-2290 <![CDATA[Representation in the Blogosphere: MPs and Their New Constituents]]> http://pa.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/gsn021v1?rss=1 Coleman has suggested that weblogs by encouraging conversations, may be creating direct representation. He suggests that weblogs provide elected representatives with ‘listening posts’, and offer individual citizens the opportunity of discussing ideas. Existing research of MP's use of weblogs assumes constituents are their target audience. This research interviewed four blogging MPs, and analysed 7 MP's weblogs over a three-month period. The data suggests that MP's weblogs are attracting a separate e-constituency based on interest. This e-constituency competes with the geographic constituency for the time of the blogging MP.

]]> 2008-06-20 info:doi/10.1093/pa/gsn021 Hansard Society 2008-06-20 Article