RESEARCHERS: James Danziger, R. Kelly Garrett, Michael Jensen, Alladi Venkatesh


ICTs and Civic Life: Another focus of the POINT Project has been the ways in which ICTs have affected the dynamics of government and civic lives. Overall, the findings demonstrate empirically that ICTs have generally enhanced the political process in their uses in providing richer information, in increasing citizen-official interactions, in exposing political officials to a broader array of viewpoints, and in encouraging new groups to participate in the political and civic life. This work has been published in The Information Society and the Communications of the ACM.