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Home Online Program » » Program Please note: all information presented below is subject to change. Information Technology and Politics 40-2   Theme Panel: Web 2.0 and Social Media in the 2008 Elections and Beyond   Date: Friday, Sep 4, 4:15 PM   Location: Meeting has passed. Consult Final Program for locations. Co-sponsored by T-18 Chair: Antoinette Pole Montclair State University, tonipole@gmail.com Author(s): Examining the Impact of Web 2.0 and Social Media on Political Participation and Civic Engagement in the 2008 Obama Campaign Derrick L. Cogburn American University, dcogburn@american.edu   Fatima K. Espinoza Vasquez   Syracuse University, fatima.espinoza@gmail.com Identity and Group Politics in the 2008 Presidential Candidate Websites Kimberly A. Mealy APSA, kmealy@apsanet.org Cyberactivism in the Pre- and Post-Election Period of the Obama Administration Jongwoo Han Syracuse University, jonghan@maxwell.syr.edu   Ines A. Mergel   Syracuse University, iamergel@maxwell.syr.edu What if you had a choice? George Robert Boynton University of Iowa, bob-boynton@uiowa.edu I Hear America Texting and Other Themes for a Virtual Polis: Rethinking Democracy in the Global InfoTech Age Renee Marlin-Bennett Johns Hopkins University, marlin@jhu.edu Discussant(s): Kenneth S. Rogerson Duke University, rogerson@duke.edu