Google and democracy : politics and the power of the Internet / Sean Richey and J. Benjamin Taylor.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Richey, Sean (Author)
Taylor, J. Benjamin (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
Subjects:
Google.
Political participation > Technological innovations > United States.
Internet > Political aspects > United States.
Direct democracy > United States.
Information society > Political aspects > United States.
Political culture > United States.
Physical Description:x, 199 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : direct democracy, political knowledge, and the Internet
  • Internet politics and the computer science of Google
  • Google search returns on ballot measures
  • Click behavior and direct democracy
  • Learning happens : political knowledge and three ballot measures
  • Internet research and intellectually secure decisions in direct democracy
  • Real-world applications : does Google use correlate with real-world political behavior?
  • Conclusions and directions for future research.