Mousepads, shoe leather, and hope : lessons from the Howard Dean campaign for the future of Internet politics / [edited by] Zephyr Teachout and Thomas Streeter and others.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Teachout, Zephyr.

Streeter, Thomas.

Series:

Media and power

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internet in political campaigns--United States.

Internet in political campaigns.

Political campaigns--United States.

Political campaigns.

United States.

Internet--Political aspects.

Internet.

Dean, Howard, 1948-.

Dean, Howard.

Physical Description:

iv, 250 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, [2008]

Summary:

Howard Dean??'s campaign for president changed the way in which campaigns are run today. With an unlikely collection of highly talented and motivated staffers drawn from a variety of backgrounds, the Dean campaign transformed the way in which money was raised and supporters galvanized by using the Internet. Surprisingly, many of the campaign staff members were neither computer whizzes nor practiced political operatives, even though that is how some of them are identified today. This book allows key individuals in the campaign the chance to tell their stories with an eye to documenting the Internet campaign revolution and providing lessons to future campaigns. Howard Dean??'s inspirational statement of what it took for his campaign to get as far as it did??????mousepads, shoe leather, and hope??????holds great wisdom for anyone campaigning today, especially the 2008 presidential candidates.

Contents:

Introduction : redefining the possible / Thomas Streeter

How the Internet taught me that you have the power : interview with Howard Dean

Theories : technology, the grassroots, and network generativity / Thomas Streeter and Zephyr Teachout

How a blogger and the Dean campaign discovered each other / Jerome Armstrong

Something much bigger than a candidate / Zephyr Teachout

Swept up in "the perfect storm" / Bobby Clark

A coder becomes a political activist / Aldon Hynes

Blogging for America / Mathew Gross

The meetup story / Michael Silberman

Experiences of a grassroots activist / Pam Paul

The lessons of generation Dean / Aminda Michel

Fund-raising : hitting home runs on and off the Internet / Larry Biddle

A web activist finds Dean / Nicco Mele

E-mail : sign your own name / Kelly Nuxoll

Participatory political culture : everyone's a kingpin if he or she wants to be / Josh Koenig

An organizer's view of the Internet campaign / Zack Exley

After New Hampshire / Kelly Nuxoll

From media politics to networked politics : the Internet and the political process / Araba Sey and Manuel Castells

The legacies of Dean's Internet campaign / Zephyr Teachout and Thomas Streeter.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781594514845

1594514844

9781594514852

1594514852

OCLC:

157023199