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2002 Campaign Web Sphere Analysis Candidates for House, Senate and Governor used the Web in the 2002 campaign to facilitate civic engagement, establish connections to other political Web sites through links, and provide various types of information to site visitors.	84% of candidate sites facilitated involvement with the campaign 85% of candidate sites linked to one or more political sites 50% of candidate sites provided information beyond biographies and issue position Search the 2002 Election Web Archive Review Recent Reports on the 2002 Campaign Web Sphere Review Pre-Election Reports on the 2002 Campaign Web Sphere View a Flash illustration of online campaigning practices.
How campaigns used the Web
These are some of the questions the project has investigated to date.


Engagement
What kinds of campaigns enabled civic engagement on the Web, and how?
Connections
Where did campaign sites link to, and what kinds of campaigns were most likely to link?
Information
What types of information did campaigns provide on their Web sites?

The Campaign Web Sphere Analysis is based on an assessment of candidate web sites collected for the Election 2002 Web Archive. Sites in the archive are available on the Web at the Library of Congress Minerva Project, in collaboration with WebArchivist.org and the Internet Archive, with additional funding from the Pew Charitable Trusts through the Center for Communication and Civic Engagement at the University of Washington.

This project was conducted under the direction of Professors Kirsten Foot of the University of Washington, and Steve Schneider of the SUNY Institute of Technology.

2002 Campaign Web Sphere Analysis

Candidates for House, Senate and Governor used the Web in the 2002 campaign to facilitate civic engagement, establish connections to other political Web sites through links, and provide various types of information to site visitors.

84% of candidate sites facilitated involvement with the campaign

85% of candidate sites linked to one or more political sites

50% of candidate sites provided information beyond biographies and issue position

How campaigns used the Web

Engagement

Connections

Information