This volume explores the nature of the Internet's impact on civil society, addressing key questions and drawing on exciting new research.

Sarah Oates, Diana Owen, Rachel K. Gibson

1 The Internet, Civil Society and Democracy: A Comparative Perspective Sarah Oates and Rachel Gibson 2 The Internet and Youth Civic Engagement in the United States Diana Owen 3 The Minnesota E-Democracy Project: Mobilizing the Mobilised? Jakob Linaa Jensen 4 Hunting Online Action: Mobilisation, Participation and Protest in the Countryside Alliance Wainer Lusoli and Stephen Ward 5 Design Matters: The Politics Efficacy of Government-Run Discussion Boards Scott Wright 6 Cybercortical Warfare: The Case of Hizbollah.org Maura Conway 7 Civil Society, Terrorism and the Internet: Case Studies from Northern Ireland Paul Reilly 8 Virtual Parties in a Virtual World: The Use of the Internet by Russian Political Parties Luke March 9 Hard to Connect: Trans-national Networks, Non-Governmental Organisations and the Internet in Russia Diana Schmidt 10 Murder, Journalism and the Web: How the Gongadze Case Launched the Internet News Era in Ukraine Natalya Krasnoboka and Holli A. Semetko 11 Pathologies of the Virtual Public Sphere Heinz Brandenburg