Members of Parliament (MPs) want to communicate their ideas, messages and activities to their constituents. Within the modern political campaigning era the central party organisation has dominated most political communication through its control of national media management. As a result many MPs...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the use of weblogs by political parties in the 2005 general election campaign. It seeks to identify why, why not, and how parties used their weblogs during the election campaign. Design/methodology/approach – The weblogs of the five political...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show how blogging has grown as an online phenomenon. Design/methodology/approach – Examines the way that blogs have become a phenomenon that embrace private authors who go online to write personal diaries through to representatives from different...