Mousepads, shoe leather, and hope : lessons from the Howard Dean campaign for the future of Internet politics / [edited by] Zephyr Teachout and Thomas Streeter and others.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction : redefining the possible / Thomas Streeter -- 2. How the Internet taught me that you have the power : interview with Howard Dean -- 3. Theories : technology, the grassroots, and network generativity / Thomas Streeter and Zephyr Teachout -- 4. How a blogger and the Dean campaign discovered each other / Jerome Armstrong -- 5. Something much bigger than a candidate / Zephyr Teachout -- 6. Swept up in "the perfect storm" / Bobby Clark -- 7. A coder becomes a political activist / Aldon Hynes -- 8. Blogging for America / Mathew Gross -- 9. The meetup story / Michael Silberman -- 10. Experiences of a grassroots activist / Pam Paul -- 11. The lessons of Generation Dean / Amanda Michel -- 12. Fund-raising : hitting home runs on and off the Internet / Larry Biddle -- 13. A Web activist finds dean / Nicco Mele -- 14. E-mail : sign your own name / Kelly Nuxoll -- 15. Participatory political culture : everyone's a kingpin if he or she wants to be / Josh Koenig -- 16. An organizer's view of the Internet campaign / Zack Exley -- 17. After New Hampshire / Kelly Nuxoll -- 18. From media politics to networked politics : the Internet and the political process / Araba Sey and Manuel Castells -- 19. The legacies of Dean's Internet campaign / Zephyr Teachout and Thomas Streeter.