Friday 11 September 2009

New report on political participation in America

A new report bt the Pew Internet and American Life Project has been lunched recently. The report, headed by famous professors Verba, Schlozman and Brady (yes! the same of "The Civic Culture"), can be downloaded from here.
An article from the Atlantic magazine, shows some of its main conclusion, basically emphatizing that the myth of an increase and more equal access to the political sphere provided by the accesability and simplicity of the internet, it is just that, a myth. However, the same article points out that among web political users, the educational differences commonly seen in offline political participation (the better-educated participate more and in a more effective way than the less-educated) is no so sharped.

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