iPolitics: Citizens, Elections, and Governing in the New Media Era. Richard L. Fox and Jennifer M. Ramos, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 303 pp. $29.69 pbk. ISBN: 978-1-107-66765-5.The goal of iPolitics: Citizens, Elections, and Governing in the New Media Era, edited by Richard L. Fox and Jennifer M. Ramos, is twofold. One purpose is to explore recent changes in the traditional and media environment and the impact of these changes on the dynamics of domestic and foreign politics. Meanwhile, the second is-even more ambitiously-to assess how these changes in the media envi- ronment affect democratic and how effectively netroot activism organizes competing political constituencies to achieve desirable public policy outcomes. By assessing the impact of trends on the information environment as well as on governance and public policy debates, the book makes a stimulating contribution to the growing body of literature on the shift in relations between the government- which reinvents itself as e-government-and citizens-who are increasingly organiz- ing themselves as netizens. ten authors who contributed articles to this volume evaluate these and other issues by using case studies on the shifting media universe, changes in electoral process, governance, and civil mobilization.Richard L. Fox and Jennifer M. Ramos specialize in studying political changes and trends in governance and media, with a focus on the role of ideas, norms, media, and gender in modern politics. Both are professors of political science at Loyola Marymount University. In this volume, the authors address the following questions, among others: Has the media environment altered the tone or substance of political discourse? Have the changes to the news and information environment affected the ease of gov- erning? How does the information environment affect political norms and practices?The ten chapters of the publication are brought together under one theme-politics in the New Media era-and assess various aspects of interaction between media and governance in the globalizing media and political universes. They offer a quite innova- tive and critical overview of how new media environment fundamentally alters political and brings citizens closer to democratic ideals (p. 2). Issues of the changing nature of governance under the pressure of the increasing penetration of public space and public discourses by media have recently moved to the center of attention and have been covered by political scientists and media studies specialists.1-4 Yet, the editors of the volume believe that there is room for case studies and for con- textual assessment of the way in which the continually changing media environment influence political outcomes (p. 4). Most of the chapters focus on examples from the United States, including instances of political mobilization in the debates around health care reform, presidential elections, and civil mobilization. In addition, a couple of chapters are devoted to analyzing trends in Europe and-unavoidably-to the role of media in political changes in the Middle East-the so-called Twitter Revolutions in Egypt, Jordan, and Kuwait.The chapters are divided into three sections organized around the book's three major themes: The Shifting Media Universe and New Consumers (Section One), Campaigns and Elections in the New Media Environment (Section Two), and Civil Mobilization and Governance in the New Information Age (Section Three). first section is entirely devoted to the rapid increase in the media penetration of the political and public policy domains and the emerging shift in the role of the public in the political process, from informed participants to [information] consumer participants reflecting growing consumerization of the political process through repackaging information. …