Via the Free Government Information blog, Searcher Magazine’s current issue has a great basic tutorial on how to engage with congressional level politics online. Laura Gordon-Murnane leads a tour through sites filling different civic roles in a congressional level election, including voter registration, biographical information, candidate platforms, incumbent voting records, and campaign contributions.
A similar story could be written from a variety of civic perspectives, showcasing the sites that are necessary parts of different information narratives. The Internet can lower the barriers to civic engagement for voters, reporters, lawmakers and staff, issue advocates, bloggers, philanthropists, technologists, lobbyists, administrators–anyone with Internet access. Developing new mechanisms of scrutability permits new narratives to develop, where lawmakers seek citizens’ input, or bloggers become lobbyists, or technologists gain a philanthropic role, or technologists can blog, or citizens vote for reporters.
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