Politics Online

The latest in a series of reports about the Millennial Generation, from Pew Social and Demo...

Aaron Smith discusses the role the Internet plays in opening civic and political debate to historically underrepresented groups.

Just as in offline politics, the well-off and well-educated are especially likely to participate in online activities that mirror offline forms of engagement. But there are hints that social media may alter this pattern.

A majority of American adults went online in 2008 to keep informed about political developments and to get involved with the election.

Yesterday's inauguration was the first to be fully digitized, annotated and archived online.

Ars Technica has a great write-up of our recent Voter Engagement report.

Fully 46% of all Obama voters expect to hear directly from Barack Obama or other officials affiliated with the new administration at least occasionally over the next year, and 15% of Obama voters expect to hear from the new administration on at least...

Voters expect that the level of public engagement they experienced with Barack Obama during the campaign, much of it occurring online, will continue into the early period of his new administration.

After a presidential race in which the internet played a huge role in empowering ordinary citizens to participate in the political process, change.gov offers a fascinating look into how the new administration is attempting to replicate this dynami...

There is no shortage of suggestions to the incoming Obama administration about what to do about communications policy in the United States. The body of research from the Pew Internet Project, dating to 2000, indicates that online Americans might have...