期刊名称：South African Journal of Information Management
印刷版ISSN：2078-1865
电子版ISSN：1560-683X
出版年度：2010
卷号：12
期号：1
页码：1-5
语种：English
出版社：Sabinet Online
摘要：The political communication environment worldwide has been transformed by the Internet with websites providing opportunities for affordable information dissemination and reception. Internationally, a party contesting an election without a website seems impossible today. This exploratory study examines the use of websites by political parties during the 2009 South African elections and investigates the functionality offered by the websites as well as how effectively this functionality is delivered. The study analysed the websites of both large and small political parties. It is worth noting that in spite of the lower Internet penetration rates in South Africa, the majority of political parties contesting the 2009 elections had websites. The study shows that the websites of the larger parties generally offer more functionality than those of the smaller parties, supporting the view of 'normalisation' of party competition in cyberspace. However, an analysis of the delivery of the content does not confirm the normalisation effects.
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