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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="">International
Journal of E-Politics (IJEP)</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Official Publication of the Information Resources
Management Association</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Volume 1, Issue 4, October-December 2010</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">ISSN: 1947-9131 EISSN: 1947-914X</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="http://www.igi-global.com/ijep">www.igi-global.com/ijep</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Editor-in-Chief: Celia Romm Livermore, Wayne State
University, USA</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="">PAPER ONE</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Acceptance, Use, and Influence of Political Technologies
among Youth Voters in the 2008 US Presidential Election</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Lara Khansa (Virginia Tech, USA) <br>
Tabitha James (Virginia Tech, USA) <br>
Deborah Cook (Virginia Tech, USA)</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">The visibility of network-based technologies in the 2008
U.S. presidential election is indicative of their importance as tools to inform
and motivate a populace. By explaining what factors impact usage behaviors with
respect to these technologies, their use can be better encouraged. In this
paper, the authors examine the constructs influencing usage behaviors for political
technologies using the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology
(UTAUT) model. The authors also explore the impact of the use of political
technologies on political interest and activism in organized movements. The
model was tested on a large sample of youth voters, and results suggest that
performance and effort expectancy, along with social influences, impact the use
of political technology. Evidence was also found suggesting that the usage of
political technologies positively impacts political interest and political
activism. Findings suggest that room for growth exists in devising novel ways
to use political technologies to motivate active participation.</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="">PAPER TWO</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">The Influence of Social Networks on the U.S. Senate
Roll-Call Voting</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Jang Kim (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA) <br>
George Barnett (University of California at Davis, USA) <br>
K. Kwon (University of New York at Buffalo, USA)</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Along with individuals’ ideological factors, various
network properties play a crucial role in the process of legislators’ political
decision making. Social networks among legislators provide relational resources
through which communication occurs, exerting social influence among the members
in a network. This paper examines six social relationships among the members of
the 109th United States Senate as predictors of senatorial voting (roll call
votes), shared committees, co-sponsorships, party membership, PAC donation,
geographical contiguity, and internet hyperlinks, which may be considered as
direct or indirect representations of communication networks. The six networks
are modeled using MRQAP, and results suggest that roll call voting was
predicted by party membership, co-sponsorship, geographical proximity, and PAC
donation networks, while shared committee membership did not contribute
significantly. As for hyperlinks, results were mixed, showing a small variance
of contribution in a simpler model but not significant with more complex
models.</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="">PAPER THREE</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">When the Virtual and the Real Clash: Power and Politics
in a Social Networking Community<span style=""> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Celia Livermore (Wayne State University, USA)</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">This paper focuses on two related aspects–the politics of
social networking communities and the impact that clashes between real and
virtual spheres on relationships in social networking communities. The starting
point for this paper is a series of events that took place in a social
networking community involving a dominant member of the community attempting to
overpower others, leading to several of the most active members, including the
dominant member himself, leaving the community. Following a review of the
literature on social networking and politics, the Virtuality/Reality Conflict
(VRC) model is presented. The model is used in this paper as a basis for
explaining the events in the case and for discussing the implications from this
study to research politics of the virtual communities.</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="">PAPER FOUR</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Opt In or Tune Out: Email Mobilization and Political
Participation<span style=""> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Brian Krueger (University of Rhode Island, USA)</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">A concern for students of political mobilization has been
whether political mobilization efforts reinforce or expand current patterns of
political participation. Despite some promise, an emerging body of research
suggests that email mobilization techniques generally will reinforce existing
participatory patterns. Email mobilization campaigns rely heavily on
individuals to first submit their email addresses for future contact. Because
signing up for future political email is an act of political participation,
mobilization resulting from these solicited contacts would serve to reinforce
the engagement of those already willing to participate. Yet, many individuals
receive unsolicited political email, which holds the most potential to activate
the inactive. Unfortunately, despite speculation about the mobilizing potential
of these unsolicited email contacts, political scientists know little about whether
unsolicited political messages induce engagement. Using data from a unique
probability sample survey of U.S. Internet users, the author examines whether
unsolicited political email independently induces individuals to participate in
politics.</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=47200">http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=47200</a><span style=""> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="">PAPER FIVE</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">E-Government: Expectations Among People in Bangladesh<span style=""> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">S. Huda (East West University, Bangladesh) <br>
Rumana Parveen (Dhaka University, Bangladesh) <br>
Masud Rahman (Daffodil University, Bangladesh)</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">E-Government can be used as an effective tool to create a
relationship of trust and confidence between government and people as well as
to generate greater efficiency and responsiveness of government. This empirical
study observes people’s opinions and expectations about positive outcomes of
e-Government. The researchers have identified the expectation level among urban
people in Bangladesh concerning outcomes of e-Government and the variability in
these expectations in terms of their demographic characteristics. In this
regard, the authors emphasize the application of e-Government to improve government’s
performance as well as locating the critical factors to succeed in such
application.</p>
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below.</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="">BOOK REVIEW</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Review of <i style="">Homeland
Security Preparedness and Information Systems: Strategies for Managing Public
Policy</i></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Reviewed by Sukumar Ganapati, Florida International
University, USA</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To obtain a copy of the review, check out this issue at
your local library or click on the link below.</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="">INTERVIEW</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">The Use of the Internet for ePoliticking</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Interview with Keith King – CEO of Keith King and
Associated Advertising</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Interviewed by Celia Romm Livermore, Wayne State
University, USA </p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">For full copies of the above articles, check for this
issue of the <b style="">International Journal of
E-Politics (IJEP)</b> in your institution's library.<span style=""> </span>This journal is also included in the IGI
Global aggregated "<b style="">InfoSci-Journals</b>"
database: <a href="http://www.igi-global.com/EResources/InfoSciJournals.aspx">http://www.igi-global.com/EResources/InfoSciJournals.aspx</a>.</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="">CALL FOR PAPERS</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Mission of IJEP: </p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">The mission of the<b style="">
International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP)</b> is to define and expand the
boundaries of e-politics as an emerging area of inter-disciplinary research and
practice by assisting in the development of e-politics theories and empirical
models. The journal creates a venue for empirical, theoretical, and practical
scholarly work on e-politics to be published, leading to sharing of ideas
between practitioners and academics in this field. IJEP contributes to the
creation of a community of e-politics researchers by serving as a “hub” for
related activities, such as organizing seminars and conferences on e-politics
and publication of books on e-politics.</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Coverage of IJEP:</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style=""> </span>The <b style="">International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP)</b>
focuses on three major topic areas: the politics of information technology
function and its role within organizations, the politics of virtual communities
and social networking communities, and the role that electronic media plays in
community activism and party politics at the local, national, and international
levels. Within these major areas, specific topics of interest to be discussed
in the journal include (but are not limited to) the following:</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">E-voting and electronically enabled e-government</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Impact of globalization on the political role played by
the IT unit within organizations</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Impact of race and gender on electronically enabled
political manipulations</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Party politics and social activism</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Politics of diffusion of change within organizations</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Politics of social networking communities, including:
learning communities, customers' communities, e-dating communities, gaming
communities, support group communities, etc.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Politics of the IT function and role in organizations</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Politics of virtual communities and social networking
communities</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Politics of geographically based virtual communities</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Use of electronic media for surveillance manipulation and
harassment</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Use of electronic media in industrial and labor relations</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Utilization of electronic media for governance and
politicking at the municipal, state, national, and international levels</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Utilization of electronic media for political debate,
information sharing, political decision making, and fundraising</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Interested authors should consult the journal's
manuscript submission guidelines at <a href="http://www.igi-global.com/ijep">www.igi-global.com/ijep</a>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">All inquiries and submissions should be sent to: </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Celia Romm Livermore at <a href="mailto:ak1667@wayne.edu">ak1667@wayne.edu</a> </p>
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