Digital Politics in Canada: Promises and Realities

"The pioneering research and insights in this book provide critical tools to understand and inform our response to digital politics. Such research enhances our capacity to unleash the potential for enhanced democratic participation and to comprehend and curtail practices that imperil it."

Lori Williams, Mount Royal University, Alberta Views

"Clearly written and accessible, Digital Politics in Canada is an up-to-date text demonstrating mastery of the literature and the latest sources. The employment of a three-prong approach of context, digitization, and potentials provides an anchor of organization, telling the reader what each chapter is trying to do and how it intends to do it. Consistently used digital political hypotheses, such as mobilization vs. reinforcement hypothesis, adds an impressive critical element to each chapter. This book can be used within political science, as well as in courses on the media, politics, and communications. There is no comparable book in this area in Canada."

Peter J. Smith, Athabasca University

"Digital Politics in Canada offers a clear and coherent summation of digital politics, working through how digitization changes the many facets of Canadian politics. Evident through the scope and quality of scholarship, this edited collection has a very strong group of collaborators and leaders in their respective research areas. Small and Jansen have assembled a thoughtful collection to understand what going digital means for Canadian politics."

Fenwick McKelvey, Concordia University