Politics on the Web: Making Political Candidates Flies Instead of Spiders Nick Hopper University of Minnesota, Morro (undergraduate) hopper~@cda.mrs.umn.edu !L~Lii ........J!i [i~irJ T he explosive growth of the World Wide Web will certainly result in changes to many of our familiar social institutions. This multimedia, hypertextual internet format which represents the majority of traffic over the Information Superhighway, is in a period of rapid expansion. My focus will be on the effects of the "web explosion" on one such social institution: electoral politics in the United States. incorporated into electoral politics, and the subsequent effects of its adoption, in order to determine what trends the internet's assimilation might follow. The first election year to see extensive use of television was 1952, when 19 million American households had television sets [14]. In this year, the presidential campaigns divided resources equally between television and radio[14]. In 1956 and 1960, television events outpaced radio by a ratio of two to one, and by Growth of the World Wide Web and the Internet 1980, the ratio was eight to one[14]. It is estimated that 99.2% Currently about 4% of US citizens have access to the of US homes have a television set
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Politics on the web: making political candidates flies instead of spiders
Hopper, Nick
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, Volume 26 (3)
Association for Computing Machinery – Sep 1, 1996
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