Jongwoo HansNetworked Information Technologies, Elections, and Politics: Korea and the United States is a study on the changes that have been occurring in elections, politics, and democratic movements in both the United States and Korea. There has undoubtedly been a paradigm shift in political discourse, as the industrial age mass media-based public sphere gives way to the new networked information technologies (NNIT)-based cyber sphere. Analyzing and comparing Koreas Presidential Election in 2002 and the United States 2008 Presidential Election, Han discusses the impact of NNITs in electoral politics, as previously apolitical young generations have become more involved and transformed themselves into both a cohesive voting bloc and a formidable constituency. Han also addresses the role of NNITs in Koreas beef crisis and President Obamas legislation battle to reform the U.S. health care system, revealing unprecedented opportunities to observe this major change occurring in political systems during the so-called Information Age.

Jongwoo Han is adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and Senior Associate at the Center for Information Technology and Policy at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

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Chapter OneNew Experimentation: Cyberspace, the Networked Public Sphere, and the Youth in the United States and Korea

Chapter TwoHow Korea's Wired Youth Became a Political Power: NNIT-Activated Experimentation and the 2002 Presidential Election in Korea

Chapter ThreeWhat the New Experimentation Portends for Democracy: Korea's Beef Crisis

Chapter FourNNITs and the Obama Phenomenon: Transforming Electoral Politics of Youth

Chapter FiveObama Tweeting and Tweeted: The Sotomayor Nomination and Health Care Reform

Chapter SixMaking Sense of the New Experimentation

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