Politics on the Net:
Electronic Agora or Town Hall?

Mark S. Bonchek
Intelligent Information Infrastructure Project
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/home-page.html

Presentation at the Communications Forum, M.I.T. Media Laboratory, April 11, 1996.

  1. Politics on the Net: Electronic Agora or Town Hall?
  2. Agora or Town Hall?
  3. Politics on the Net
  4. Elite Medium
  5. Elite Medium
  6. Mainstream Politics
  7. Politically Active
  8. Social Flow of Information
  9. Broadcast Model
  10. Personal Network Model
  11. Online Network Model
  12. Network Flow of Information
  13. Virtual Interest Groups
  14. Online Political Activity
  15. Online Political Activity
  16. Agora or Town Hall?
  17. The Internet is not Television