Digital Media & Politics
Puget Sound Off is a training program and youth-driven website that provides Seattle-area youth with a forum for discussion, artistic expression, and action as a way to empower and encourage them to develop a strong public voice. The PSO site will include issue and group pages (for local youth organizations) containing blogging, polling, user content, creative user multimedia, calendar, jobs and group networking features. Read more...
Democracy and the Internet (2000-2004)
Internet technology has created political opportunities, including new potentials for direct democracy and other bottom-up, self-organizing political forms. These forms range from democratic decision-making by online communities, such has Indymedia, to those activist groups like Move On, which use the amplifying capacity of the internet to mobilize large constituencies towards effecting social change. Read more...
Seattle Political Information Network (2003)
SPIN was an experiment in community-based, interactive communication. It was a response to the various gaps in public information created by the commercial channels that currently carry most of the easily available news and information in society. Read more...
Middle Media (2003)
The sites, zines, and blogs of the Internet have proven to be effective media for groups with limited resources and poor access to commercial mass media to organize and communicate. CCCE develops projects to better understand the organization and effectiveness of middle media resources. Read more...
Crossing the Campaign Divide: The Dean Phenomenon (2004)
David Iozzi, a 2004 CCCE Undergraduate Research Fellow and Mary Gates Undergraduate Research Fellow investigated in his senior honors thesis Internet use by the 2004 presidential candidates. He uses their online campaigning activity to shed light on the question of how political candidates can use the Web most effectively. In particular, he focuses on the emergence of the social networking technologies most notably seen in the Howard Dean organization. Read more...
The Net Repertoire: Global Activist Networks and Open Publishing (2003)
Heather Gorgura, B.A. in Political Science and Comparative Literature, 2003, focused on evolving communication technologies as activist resources. Her paper explores Internet technology, activism, and the democratization of the news media. Read more...
