What is it about?
The article conducted a content analysis of the websites of five mainstream political parties and twelve party list organizations represented in the 14th Congress of the Philippines. It appraised the online presence of these parties and assessed the level of use of the Internet as a tool for internal party administration, online electoral campaigns, voters’ participation and organization.
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This is the first scholarly article on the use of the internet by political parties in the Philippines.
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This page is a summary of: Party.Politics.Ph: Internet Campaigning in the Philippines, Philippine Political Science Journal, January 2010, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/01154451.2010.9723526.
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