Contributors


  • Jerome Armstrong founded MyDD
  • Larry Biddle is is principal of PlanningWorks
  • Manuel Castells holds the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology & Society at the University of Southern California
  • Bobby Clark is deputy director of ProgressNow in Colorado
  • Howard Dean is Chairman of the Democratic National Committee
  • Zack Exley is co-founder and president of the New Organizing Institute
  • Mathew Gross provides online strategic guidance to non-profits and political campaigns
  • Aldon Hynes is a campaign technology and social media consultant
  • Josh Koenig is a founding partner in Chapter Three LLC
  • Nicco Mele is Co-Founder and Chairman of EchoDitto
  • Amanda Michel works for NewAssignment.Net
  • Kelly Nuxoll is a freelance writer and an advocate for civic education
  • Pam Paul is a student and a progressive activist working at the state, county and precinct levels of the Oklahoma Democratic Party
  • Araba Sey is a doctoral candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California
  • Michael Silberman is Co-Founder and President of EchoDitto
  • Zephyr Teachout is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Duke Law School, where she is researching law and political corruption. She was the Director of Online Organizing for Howard Dean's campaign, the National Director of the Sunlight Foundation, the Executive Director of the Fair Trial Initiative, and a consultant for several new media companies. In 2005-2006 she was a Fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. She received her law degree summa cum laude from Duke Law School, and holds an M.A. in Political Science from Duke University and a BA in English from Yale.
  • Thomas Streeter studies the Internet and media at the University of Vermont. His Selling the Air (University of Chicago Press 1996) won the McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communication Policy Research. Other publications include “The Moment of Wired” (Critical Inquiry), and “The Romantic Self and the Politics of Internet Commercialization” (Cultural Studies). He has taught at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Southern California, and in 2000–2001 was a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey.