The Hansard Society is to release a report on the 5th of this month called ‘Spinning the Web: Online Campaigning in the 2005 General Election’. The panel for the launch event will include the director of the society Clare Ettinghausen and MP Lynne Featherstone, whose website has been shortlisted for our own New Media Awards.
The report will detail how new technology impacted upon the election and its voters. Online resources were considered crucial by all parties in the campaign. The report follows the society’s consideration of the online element of the 2001 election. With the advance in new media in the four years since, the findings should make for interesting reading. Innovations made by both the political parties and citizen-led campaigns are to be the focus.