Published Works
March 2008. “Measuring Influence in the Political Blogosphere: Who’s Winning and How Can We Tell?” Institute for Politics Democracy and the Internet’Politics and Technology Review. pps 33-41
December 2008. “Understanding Blogspace.” Journal of Information Technology and Politics. Volume 5, Issue 4. Routledge Press. Pps 369-395
Book review, January 2009. “Book Review: Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage.“ Journal of Information Technology and Politics. Volume 6, Issue 1. Routledge Press. Pps 81-83
(Forthcoming) “Macaca Moments Revisited… Electoral Panopticon or Netroots Mobilization?” Journal of Information Technology and Politics. Special Issue on YouTube and the 2008 Election.
September 2009. “Blogosphere Research: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Rapidly Changing Systems” IEEE Intelligent Systems. Volume 24, Number 5. Pps 67-70.
Conference Papers
“The Superdelegate Transparency Project and the New Rules of Latent Group Activation: A Comparison of the 1984 and 2008 Contested Democratic Primaries.” Presented at International Studies Association Annual Convention, New York City. February 16, 2009. [current status: "Revise and Resubmit" at Perspectives on Politics]
“Why Bowl Alone When You Can Flashmob the Bowling Alley?: Implications of the Mobile Web for Online-Offline Reputation Systems.“ Presented at WebSci’09 Conference, Athens, Greece. March 2009. [Revised copy accepted for publication in IEEE Intelligent Systems]
“Stability and Change in the Blogosphere in the 2008 Election.” Presented at Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. April 2009.
“The MoveOn Effect: Disruptive Innovation within the Interest Group Ecology of American Politics.” Presented at the Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism Annual Conference, University of Pennsylvania, May 1 2009.
“Don’t Think of an Online Elephant: Explaining the Dearth of Conservative Political Infrastructure in America.” Presented at the 4S Annual Meeting, October 29, 2009. (updated version of the “All the Dogs that Didn’t Bark” paper presented at APSA 2009.)
The Dissertation
“Unexpected Transformations: The Internet’s Effect on Political Associations in America.” Defended and submitted, June 2009.
Class Syllabi
Syllabus – The Internet and Public Policy Fall 2009.
September 29, 2009 at 10:06 pm
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