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Synopsis: This chapter discusses the function of blogs as tools enhancing citizen participation
in political communication. Adopting the perspective of corpus-assisted
critical discourse analysis, a set of blogs from the US presidential election
campaign are analysed in order to determine the frequency of reference to
the candidates, the parties, as well as the bloggers themselves. The analysis of
pronoun choice, verbs and modality indicate that blogs enhance participation
rhetoric. The data further indicate that citizen bloggers attach importance
to individual political figures th
