Andrew Chadwick is Professor of Political Science and Founding Director of the New Political Communication Unit at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Internet Politics: States, Citizens, and New Communication Technologies (Oxford University Press), which won the American Sociological Association Communication and Information Technologies Section Outstanding Book Award.

Philip N. Howard is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington, and directs the World Information Access Project ([...] He is the author of New Media Campaigns and the Managed Citizen (Cambridge University Press), which won book awards from the American Sociological Association and the International Communication Association.

1. Introduction Part 1: Institutions 2. The Internet in US Election Campaigns [...]opean Political Organizations and the Internet: Mobilization, Participation and Change 4. Electoral Web Production Practices in Cross-National Perspective: The Relative Influence of National Development, Political Culture, and Web Genre 5. Parties, Election Campaigning and the Internet: Toward a Comparative Institutional Approach 6. Technological Change and the Shifting Nature of Political Organization 7. Making Parliamentary Democracy Visible: Speaking to, With and For the Public in the Age of Interactive Technology 8. Bureaucratic Reform and E-Government in the United States: An Institutional Perspective 9. Public Management Change and E-Government: The Emergence of Digital Era Governance Part 2: Behavior 10. Wired to Fact: The Role of the Internet in Identifying Deception During the 2004 US Presidential Campaign 11. Political Engagement Online: Do the Information Rich Get Richer and the Like-Minded More Similar? 12. Information, the Internet and Direct Democracy 13. Toward Digital Citizenship: Addressing Inequality in the Information Age 14. Online News Creation and Consumption: Implications for Modern Democracies 15. Web 2.0 and the Transformation of News and Journalism Part 3: Identities 16. The Internet and the Changing Global Media Environment 17. The Virtual Sphere 2.0: The Internet, the Public Sphere and Beyond 18. Identity, Technology and Narratives: Transnational Activism and Social Networks 19. Theorizing Gender and the Internet: Past, Present, and Future 20. New Immigrants, the Internet, and Civic Society 21. One Europe, Digitally Divided 22. Working Around the State: Internet Use and Political Identity in the Arab World Part 4: Law and Policy 23. The Geopolitics of Internet Control: Censorship, Sovereignty and Cyberspace 24. Locational Surveillance: Embracing the Patterns of Our Lives 25. Metaphoric Reinforcement of the Virtual Fence: Factors Shaping the Political Economy of Property in Cyberspace 26. Globalizing the Logic of Openness: Open Source Software and the Global Governance of Intellectual Property 27. Exclusionary Rules? The Politics of Protocols 28. The New Politics of the Internet: Multistakeholder Policy Making and the Internet Technocracy 29. Enabling Effective Multistakeholder Participation in Global Internet Governance Through Accessible Cyberinfrastructure 30. Internet Diffusion and the Digital Divide: The Role of Policymaking and Political Institutions 31. Conclusion