Super Tuesday: A Voter’s Guide To Election Coverage on the Web

Wired blog by Sarah Lai Stirland,February 05, 2008 | 4:58:05 PM

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/02/super-tuesday-a.html

News organizations’ web sites are playing a growing role in Campaign 2008. And starting 7 pm Eastern time when the polls on the East Coast start closing, they’ll be abuzz with news updates, commentary, live video reports and blogging.

Does “Obama Girl” help Obama?

Column by Farhad Manjoo

Author Clay Shirky explains how the Internet’s capacity to create ad hoc groups has altered the media, business and politics — especially the 2008 campaign.

Political Privacy and Online Politics: How E-Campaigning Threatens Voter Privacy

by Christopher D. Hunter

First Monday, volume 7, number 2 (February 2002),
URL: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_2/hunter/index.html

This paper will explore the importance of political privacy, its protection through our rights to associational privacy and anonymous speech, and the many ways that the political preferences of citizens are compromised online by campaign Web sites, database and e-mail marketers, and excessive U.S. Federal Election Commission disclosure rules. The potential negative effects of a monitored electorate on the democratic process are also examined.

Internet Democracy

Lists of top two most-viewed pro-candidate YouTube videos for each major contender

by Scott McLeod

Technology aids Obama’s outreach drive

Volunteers answer call on social networking site

By Brian C. Mooney, Globe Staff | February 24, 2008, The Boston Globe

More than any previous presidential campaign, Obama’s effort is transforming politics with its use of technology. The astounding fund-raising figures are well documented – the campaign keeps a running tally on its website as it closes in on 1 million donors. But Obama’s team has taken the use of the Internet to another level by allowing masses of volunteers to self-organize over the past year and communicate through their own social networking site, my.barackobama.com.

Analyzing internet voting security

David Jefferson, Aviel D. Rubin, Barbara Simons, David Wagner, October 2004 Communications of the ACM, Volume 47 Issue 10

The ‘Net Effect’ on Political Campaign Strategy

by: Britt, Phillip. Information Today, Jun2007, Vol. 24 Issue 6, p1-52, 3p;

“While some say the “Net effect” will be little because the Internet is simply another communications channel, others say the Internet could influence enough undecided voters to tip the balance in a close race, much the same way as in the Kennedy-Nixon election.”