PART I:
Overviews
1 Introduction: Redefining the
Possible, Thomas
Streeter 2
2 How the
Internet Taught Me that You Have the
Power, Interview
with Howard Dean 15
3 Theories:
Technology, the Grassroots, and Network
Generativity,
Thomas Streeter and Zephyr Teachout 23
PART II: Stories of the
Campaign
4 How a
Blogger and the Dean Campaign Discovered Each
Other, Jerome
Armstrong 39
5 Something
Much Bigger Than a Candidate, Zephyr Teachout 55
6 Swept up
in “The Perfect Storm,” Bobby Clark 74
7 A Coder
Becomes a Political Activist, Aldon Hynes 86
8 Blogging
for America,
Mathew Gross 100
9 The Meetup
Story, Michael
Silberman 110
10 Experiences of a Grassroots
Activist, Pam
Paul 130
11 The
Lessons of Generation Dean, Amanda Michel 147
12 Fund-raising: Hitting Home Runs On
and Off the Internet, Larry Biddle 166
13 A Web
Activist Finds Dean, Nicco Mele 179
14 E-mail:
Sign Your Own Name, Kelly Nuxoll 192
15 Participatory Political Culture:
Everyone’s a Kingpin If He or She Wants to
Be, Josh Koenig
201
16 An
Organizer’s View of the Internet
Campaign, Zack Exley 212
17 After New
Hampshire, Kelly Nuxoll 220
PART III: Reflections
18
From Media Politics to Networked Politics:
The Internet and the Political
Process,
Araba Sey and Manuel Castells 225
19 The
Legacies of Dean’s Internet
Campaign, Zephyr
Teachout and Thomas Streeter 233
Index 244
