David Cameron and the Web in the Run-up to the 2010 Election: A Parallel and Intricate Progression

In 2005, following Michael Howard’s resignation and three successive General Election defeats, David Cameron was elected to head the Conservative party with the concept of modernisation as central to his rhetoric. In the same period, on both sides of the Atlantic, various experiments were conducted...

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Main Author: Géraldine Castel
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Language:English
Published: Presses universitaires de Rennes 2014-12-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/lisa/6970
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description In 2005, following Michael Howard’s resignation and three successive General Election defeats, David Cameron was elected to head the Conservative party with the concept of modernisation as central to his rhetoric. In the same period, on both sides of the Atlantic, various experiments were conducted which attempted to integrate emerging tools in the sphere of information and communication technologies into politics. This article (written in 2011) therefore proposes to explore the parallel evolution of those two relative newcomers to national politics in the run-up to the 2010 General Election so as to analyse the relationship between them but also what such a relationship reveals both about David Cameron’s Conservative project and about the adoption of ICTs, and the internet in particular, in British political life.
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David Cameron and the Web in the Run-up to the 2010 Election: A Parallel and Intricate Progression
Revue LISA
politics
Internet
Web 2.0
conservative
modernisation
organisation
title David Cameron and the Web in the Run-up to the 2010 Election: A Parallel and Intricate Progression
title_full David Cameron and the Web in the Run-up to the 2010 Election: A Parallel and Intricate Progression
title_fullStr David Cameron and the Web in the Run-up to the 2010 Election: A Parallel and Intricate Progression
title_full_unstemmed David Cameron and the Web in the Run-up to the 2010 Election: A Parallel and Intricate Progression
title_short David Cameron and the Web in the Run-up to the 2010 Election: A Parallel and Intricate Progression
title_sort david cameron and the web in the run up to the 2010 election a parallel and intricate progression
topic politics
Internet
Web 2.0
conservative
modernisation
organisation
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