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Study: Participation and Polarization are a Package Deal

BY Nancy Scola | Friday, March 12 2010

They say that the political blogosphere is more polarized than the world at large. For once, there's actually a "they" there -- GW professors Eric Lawrence, John Sides, and Henry Farrell (via Andrew Sullivan). ... Read More

Online Politics in Britain in 2010: The Left Will Rise?

BY Micah L. Sifry | Monday, January 4 2010

British writer James Crabtree has weighed in at The New Statesman with an absolutely fascinating prediction for the coming year of English online politics as the country heads into new elections: the balance of power and ... Read More

Bill Killers and Good Enoughers: A quick guide to the online left's health care debate

BY Nancy Scola | Tuesday, December 22 2009

There is, you may have noticed, a fairly raging debate taking place amongst those progressives armed with a computer and a high-speed Internet connection over the future of the health care bill. Read More

Bloggers as Watchdogs, Though Ones Who Could Use a Meal

BY Nancy Scola | Wednesday, July 29 2009

Mother Jones interviewsMother Jones interviews Eric Boehlert, author of Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press an Read More

Unmasking Publius

BY Nancy Scola | Tuesday, June 9 2009

There's been interesting flare-up in the perennial online argument over maintaining anonymity in the political blogosphere. National Review Online's Ed Whelan recently revealed the identity of a writer by the handle of ... Read More

Daily Digest: On Blogosphere Imaging, SEC's XBRL, and "White-Collar Populism"

BY Nancy Scola | Tuesday, December 23 2008

Imaging the Blogosphere: Ars Technica's Julian Sanchez has a fascinating report on models of the blogosphere's many-tendriled thought sharing that go far beyond information-thin "A is connected to B is connected ... Read More