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Introduction:
What’s a geek like me doing in a place like this…

I. Technology and Politics

• Aristotle and Arendt–Politics and Techne
• Polsby–Air Conditioning and the Republican South (See: http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people2/Polsby/polsby-con4.html
  
• Putnam–Television and Civic Engagement
  (see: http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?articleId=4972)
• Enyedi–Technology and Cleavage Formation ^
  (see also: http://www.la.wayne.edu/polisci/kdk/papers/ecpr_cleavages.pdf)

II. The Web and Politics

• Pew Charitable Trust, “No Revolution, Yet”
  (see: http://pewresearch.org/pubs/85/the-internet-and-politics-no-revolution-yet
• http://pewresearch.org/pubs/689/the-internets-broader-role-in-campaign-2008
• )
  TechPresident (see: http://ww.techpresident.com)
• New Politics Institute (see:
• http://www.newpolitics.net)
• Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University, (see: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/about)
• Andrew Chadwick-Internet Politics, see: http://www.andrewchadwick.com
• Clinton v. Obama
  • Fund raising
  • Mobilization
  • Message
  • (see: The Tech of Obamamania, Wired, http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2008/02/potomac_primaries
    The Machinery of Hope, Rolling Stone, http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/obamamachineryofhope)

III. Technology and Political Science

• Working with words
• Working with numbers
• Working with others
  • Web 1.0
  • Web 2.0
  • O’Reilly on Web2.0
  • http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html
  • Wikipedia on Web2.0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2

IV. Web 2.0 and political science?

• “Good News About What You Are Already Doing”
  • Folksonomies
  • Collective Intelligence
  • Distributed Processing
  • Reputation Economies
  • Object-centered social networks
    • http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/09/internet.web20/print
• Andrew Chadwick’s Furl list:

  http://www.furl.net/member/Andrew_Chadwick

• Andrew Chadwick explains his Furl list: http://www.andrewchadwick.com/archives/2008/02/entry_188.html
• Jo Guldi explains how she uses del.icio.us in research:
  (see: http://landscape.blogspot.com/2007/03/how-delicious-is-changing-academic.html)
• Educause, Seven Things You Should Know About Social Bookmarking, http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7001.pdf
• Opportunities
• Dangers
• Obligations