Information trumps interation in local papers' online caucus coverage

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5. Benjamin Barber, Kevin Mattson, and John Peterson, "The State of Electronically Enhanced Democracy," Walt Whitman Center, November 1997, (10 January 2002).

6. Bruce Bimber, "The Internet and Citizen Communication with Government: Does the Medium Matter?" Political Communication 16, no. 4 (1999): 409-428; Elizabeth Weise, "Not Yet for the Net," Media Studies Journal 14 (Winter 2000): 36-41.

By Jane B. Singer

Singer is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa.