Informed strategies of political action in IP-based social media

Abstract

Political campaigning involves the intense usage of all possible media that the campaigners can afford to reach as many potential supporters as possible. Networked information technologies provide an endless source of applications and means of communication. When using computer technologies as a campaigning medium, it is essential to carefully assess the efforts concerning infrastructural and social requirements in consideration of the benefits gained. Therefore, the intertwined dimensions of political campaigning - content, infrastructure, community, protection of activists, planning, and archiving - are discussed as related to the involvement of IP-based media. © 2012 IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.