The Internet and the public: Online and offline political participation in the United Kingdom

Parliamentary Affairs

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 299-313

  Di Gennaro, Corinna ^a   Dutton, William ^a  

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EID: 33745615376     PISSN: 00312290     EISSN: 14602482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pa/gsl004     Document Type: Review

References (17)

1. See K. Laudon, Communications Technology and Democratic Participation, John Wiley and Sons, 1977;
2. W.H. Dutton, 'Political Science Research on Teledemocracy', Social Science Computer Review, Winter 1992, pp. 173-95.
3. For a discussion of Web-orchestrated campaigns, see W.H. Dutton and W.Y. Lin, 'Using the Web in the Democratic Process. The Web-orchestrated "Stop the Overlay" Cyber-campaign', European Review. Journal of the Academia Europaea, 9, 2001, pp. 185-99.
4. For reviews of research on the Internet and politics, see W.H. Dutton, Digital Democracy: Electronic Access to Politics and Services in Society on the Line, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 173-94 and a useful Web-site providing resources relevant to this topic at http://www.esri.salford.ac.uk/ ESRCResearchproject/links.php#people.
5. R. Gibson, W. Lusoli and S. Ward, 'Online Participation in the UK: Testing a Contextualised Model of Internet Effects', British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 7, 2005, pp. 1-23.
6. For more detailed figures on Internet adoption and use in Britain see W.H. Dutton, C. di Gennaro and A. Millwood-Hargrave, The Internet in Britain, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, 2005, available at http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/oxis/oxis2005_report.pdf.
7. Access at home was 89% amongst Internet users in 2003 and 93% in 2005; access at work amongst Internet users grew from 28% to 33%; access at another person's home grew from 10% to 25%; public library access grew from 5% to 10%; school or university access grew from 13% to 15%.
8. Access through a telephone line has decreased slightly between 2003 and 2005 from 92% to 87%. On the other hand, access through cable television system has grown from 7% to 12%; access through mobile phone or PDA has grown from 5% to 10% and wireless connection has grown from 1% to 5%.
9. Dutton, The Internet in Britain, loc. cit.
10. See Taylor Nelson Sofres's website at http://www.tns-global.com.
11. For more figures on Internet activities online see Dutton, di Gennaro and Millwood Hargrave, The Internet in Britain, loc. cit.
12. A seminal work on this issue is in L. Milbrath, Political Participation, Rand McNally, 1965.
13. For a review see C. di Gennaro, Social Capital and Political Participation in Britain. PhD Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004.
14. Gibson, Lusoli and Ward, Social Capital and Political Participation in Britain. loc. cit.
15. All the results presented here were tested with multivariate statistical analysis techniques, i.e. logistic regression models, which allow one to test the effect of an explanatory variable on the dependent variable by controlling for the effect of the other explanatory variables in the model.
16. This concept was developed in earlier OxIS research. See W.H. Dutton and A. Shepherd, 'Trust in the Internet: The Social Dynamics of an Experience Technology', Oil Research Report No. 3, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, 2003.
17. R.D. Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2000.