Mat Bowles

I wrote a paper about this subject for a grad class about technology and how it's changing the shape of communities - although it was before "netroots" came into fashion, and I called it "grassweb campaigning". There's some interesting research being done on the subject by a group of people at Bentley College.

I'll be damned if I can find the link to the data and stuff, but here's the woman in charge of the project. http://www.bentley.edu/academics-research/faculty_research/faculty_database/faculty_detail.cfm?id=2889