Includes bibliographical references and index.

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