Bruce Bimber
University of California, Santa Barbara
81 Papers
399 Citations
Bruce Bimber is an academic researcher from University of California, Santa Barbara. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Political communication. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 75 publications. Previous affiliations of Bruce Bimber include University of California & University of California, Berkeley.
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Papers
The Internet and Political Transformation: Populism, Community, and Accelerated Pluralism
TL;DR: The authors suggest an alternative model of "accelerated pluralism" in which the Internet contributes to the on-going fragmentation of the present system of interest-based group politics and a shift toward a more fluid, issue based group politics with less institutional coherence.
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Measuring the Gender Gap on the Internet 1
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated differences in men's and women's presence on the Internet, testing for the presence of gender-specific causes for different rates of Internet use, and found that around one-half of the digital divide between men and women on the internet is fundamentally gender related.
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Information and Political Engagement in America: The Search for Effects of Information Technology at the Individual Level
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors test for a relationship between information availability and political engagement using survey data about Internet use in the period 1996-99 and find little relationship exists; the only form of participation which is demonstrably connected to Internet use is donating money.
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Clickers in college classrooms: Fostering learning with questioning methods in large lecture classes
Richard E. Mayer,Andrew T. Stull,Krista DeLeeuw,Kevin C. Almeroth,Bruce Bimber,Dorothy M. Chun,Monica Bulger,Julie Campbell,Allan Knight,Hangjin Zhang +9 more
TL;DR: This article used a personal response system (or clickers) to promote student-instructor interaction in a large lecture class and found that the clicker treatment produced a gain of approximately 1/3 of a grade point over the no-clicker and control groups, which did not differ significantly from each other.
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Digital Media in the Obama Campaigns of 2008 and 2012: Adaptation to the Personalized Political Communication Environment
TL;DR: The authors provided a descriptive interpretation of the role of digital media in the campaigns of Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 with a focus on personalized political communication and the commodification of online media as tools.
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