Lydia Perovic

After the first week of the Ontario election campaign, the initial style differences in online campaigning between the Liberal and Progressive Conservative (PC) Parties are becoming decidedly more obvious.

The Internet is carrying the campaign strategies of all three major political parties in the run-up to next month's Ontario election, albeit in different ways and to varying degrees. In Part 2 of our Ontario Politics 2.0 series, Toronto-based writer Lydia Perovic looks at the availability and diversity of Web 2.0 features in the context of e-communication and online campaigning.

The Internet is carrying the campaign strategies of all three major political parties in the run-up to next month's Ontario election, albeit in different ways and to varying degrees. In this multi-part series on e-campaigning, Toronto-based writer Lydia Perovic, a political science master from Dalhousie University, examines how Web 2.0 technologies, e-newsletters and campaign Web sites have spawned Politics 2.0.