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Cover Quote: October 2020
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All over the world, politicians, campaigns, NGOs, activists, and citizens are using digital tools in politics. They use them to pursue needs that are as old as politics: How do I get the media to pay attention to me and what I say? How do I get my message out? How do I get people mobilized when it counts? How do I coordinate my team in order to reach as many people as possible? How do I build an organization? How do I decide whom to contact and whom to ignore? All these needs have existed and have been met countless times well before the introduction of digital media. But digital media have changed the way political actors pursue such needs. Digital media have provided political actors with new tools and in turn changed the way some of politics is done: They have retooled politics and through this continue to shape the practice of democracy.
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- Andreas Jungherr, Gonzalo Rivero, and Daniel Gayo-Avello
Retooling Politics, 2020
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