Cyberpolitics is a term widely employed across the world, largely by academics interesting in analyzing its breadth and scope, of the use of the Internet

Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

 for political activity. It embraces all forms of social software

Social software

Social software applications include communication tools and interactive tools. Communication tools typically handle the capturing, storing and presentation of communication, usually written but increasingly including audio and video as well. Interactive tools handle mediated interactions between a...

. It includes journalism

Journalism

Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...

, fundraising

Fundraising

Fundraising or fund raising is the process of soliciting and gathering voluntary contributions as money or other resources, by requesting donations from individuals, businesses, charitable foundations, or governmental agencies...

, blog

Blog

A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...

ging, volunteer recruitment, and organization building.

The campaign of Howard Dean

Howard Dean

Howard Brush Dean III is an American politician and physician from Vermont. He served six terms as the 79th Governor of Vermont and ran unsuccessfully for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination. He was chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2005 to 2009. Although his U.S...

, in which a previously unknown former Democratic governor of a small state emerged for a while as the front runner for the 2004 Democratic Presidential nomination

Democratic Party (United States) presidential primaries, 2004

The 2004 Democratic presidential primaries were the selection process by which voters of the Democratic Party chose its nominee for President of the United States in the 2004 U.S. presidential election...

 on the strength of his campaign's skill in cyberpolitics, was a wake-up call to the American political establishments of political parties around the United States as to the importance of cyberpolitics as both a concept and as a series of organizational and communications strategies.

External Links for American Politics

http://actiontrigger.no-ip.org/ (an example of distributed political organization tool which uses blogs)

http://www.cyberjournalist.net/cyberpolitics_blog

http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/home-page.html (Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...

 Intelligent Information Infrastructure Project)

http://drhill.tripod.com/cyber/index.htm

http://cyberpolitics.wordpress.com/

Books on American Cyberpolitics

Kevin A. Hughes and John E. Hill, CYBERPOLITICS; ACTIVISM IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNET (1998)

Tom Price, CQ RESEARCHER CYBERPOLITICS v.14-32 (2004)

Ed Schwartz, HOW CITIZENS USE THE INTERNET (1997)

W.Van DeDunk,CYBERPROTEST:NEW PROTEST, NEW MEDIA, CITIZENS AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS (2004)

External Links for World Politics, English Language

http://www.ciolek.com/PAPERS/oregon-2003-text.html

Books On World Cyberpolitics, English Language

Gustave Cardoso & Manuel Castelli, THE MEDIA IN THE NETWORK SOCIETY; BROWSING, NEWS, FILTERS, AND CITIZENSHIP (2007)

Randy Kluver, Kirsten Foot, Nick Jankowski, and Steve Schneider, [THE INTERNET AND NATIONAL ELECTIONS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF WEB CAMPAIGNING]http://www.amazon.com/Internet-National-Elections-comparative-Communication%C3%A1/dp/0415417368/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203345705&sr=1-1 (2007)

Shanthi Kalathil and Taylor C. Bas, OPEN NETWORKS, CLOSED REGIMES; THE IMPACT OF THE FINLAND CONFERENCE RULE (2003)

K.C. Ho, Randy Kluver, and C.C.Yang, [ASIA.COM; ASIA ENCOUNTERS THE INTERNET](2003) http://www.amazon.com/Asia-com-Encounters-Internet-Asias-Transformations/dp/0415315042

Mark McClelland, JAPANESE CYBERCULTURE (2003)

Pippa Noris, CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, INFORMATION POVERTY, AND THE INTERNET WORLDWIDE (2001)

Philip Seib, NEW MEDIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST (2007)

Ari-Veiko Anttiroiko (Editor), Mattia Malkic (Editor), ENCYCLOPEDIA OF DIGITAL GOVERNMENT (2006)

External Links for World Politics, Languages Other Than English

http://ciberpolitica.net

http://cyberpolitics.com

http://politnet.ru

Fernandez, Carmen Beatriz [Study on Latinamerican Cyberpolitics]http://www.e-lecciones.net/novedades/archivos/ciberpolitica.pdf (2008)

Books About World Cyberpolitics, Languages Other Than English

Andrea Manica, CYBERPOLTICS: GUIDA NI SITI POLITICI SU INTERNET

Miriam Meckel, CYBERPOLITICS UND CYBERPOLITY, ZUR VIRTUALISIERUNG POLITISCHER KOMMUNIKATION

Carmen Beatriz Fernández, CIBERPOLITICA: COMO USAMOS LAS NUEVAS HERRAMIENTAS EN LA POLITICA LATINOAMERICANA? Konrad Adenauer Stittfung, Buenos Aires 2008