This is a three-year project (2005-2008) funded by the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council. The Principal Investigator is Dr. Megan Boler, Associate Professor, Ontario Institute of Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

Key research questions:

• How are new media being used creatively to create communicative networks for political debate and social activism?
• What are users’ and producers’ motivations for engaging in online political engagement?
• Do online participants feel they have a public voice and/or political efficacy?
• To what extent is/was frustration with mainstream media a motivation to blogging or other forms of digital production?