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Rich beats poor in web-based politics

Fascinating article at Ars Technica reports on some results extracted from a pre-Presidential election survey of political activity. Rich people, it seems, are much more likely than poor people to use the web for political purposes, even though other web uses (social media, and so on) do not show the same wealth divide.

Not a long article, and well worth a read.

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3 Responses to “Rich beats poor in web-based politics”

  1. Power to the (wrong) people - Common Endeavour says:
    March 7, 2009 at 12:57 am

    [...] Web 2.0? Oh that! It made the rich even more powerful than they were beforehand! Via DemSoc. [...]

  2. Paul Evans says:
    March 7, 2009 at 12:58 am

    I find these conclusions absolutely impossible to believe.

  3. Paul Evans says:
    March 7, 2009 at 12:59 am

    Oh – er