Special issue published: "New Developments in Online Political Participation"

International Journal of Electronic Governance 6(4) 2013

• Online participation: from 'invited' to 'invented' spaces
• Joining the online video conversation? Discourse and practices of European political institutions and politicians on YouTube
• Political carnivalism and an emerging public space: examination of a new participatory culture on Twitter
• The #OCCUPY network on Twitter and the challenges to social movements theory and research
• National and state-level politics on social media: Twitter, Australian political discussions, and the online commentariat
• The cultural meanings of Israeli Tokbek (talk-back online commenting) and their relevance to the online democratic public sphere
• News and Briefs