Matthew Hindman

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Matthew Hindman (also Matthew Scott Hindman , * 1976 ) is a professor of political science at the University of Arizona .

academic career

Hindman earned a BA in Politics and English from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon in 1998 . He then received his PhD from Princeton University until 2005 . Since then he has been a professor at the University of Arizona at Tucson .

The Myth of Digital Democracy

In his empirical work The Myth of Digital Democracy , Hindman argues that the democratizing effect of the Internet is a myth. In doing so, he focuses in particular on the fact that not just being able to formulate an opinion also leads to it being heard. On this basis, he examines in detail which websites and which bloggers are actually noticed. He concentrates on the one hand on the traffic on these pages, on the other hand on the link structure of the web.

In the sixth chapter, he not only shows that the 10 most relevant political blogs in the USA are written by people who are more elitist in terms of education and origin than, for example, the commentators in the political daily newspapers. This would expose a central claim of bloggers, namely to give ordinary citizens a voice, as a myth.

Selected literature

  • Matthew Hindman: The Myth of Digital Democracy . Princeton University Press, Princeton, Oxford 2009, ISBN 978-0-691-13761-2 (American English).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthew Scott Hindman. German National Library, accessed on August 27, 2011 .
  2. ^ Matthew Hindman: Curriculum Vitae. (PDF; 13 kB) (No longer available online.) September 15, 2009, formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 27, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.matthewhindman.com  
  3. ↑ cf. Markos Moulitsas , Jeremy Armstrong : Crashing the Gates: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics . Chelsea Green, White River Junction, Vermont 2007.
  4. ^ Matthew Hindman: The Myth of Digital Democracy . Princeton University Press, Princeton, Oxford 2009, ISBN 978-0-691-13761-2 , pp. 127 f . (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Hindman, Matthew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1976