ABSTRACT
The 2008 presidential campaign was the first in which the Internet played a major role. In particular, the Obama campaign used the Internet to communicate with its supporters more widely and frequently than ever before. Because young people have taken to the Internet at the fastest rate, it is reasonable to hypothesize that age patterns of political attention may have undergone major changes from those reported earlier in this book. Hence, a reexamination of age patterns of political news consumption is in order. High levels of Internet usage to follow politics may now compensate for young people’s low levels of attention to traditional media sources.
