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Thierry Barboni, Éric Treille
The rise of the Internet has shifted the bounda- ries of political participation. Nowadays, acti- vists can get involved in a party without joining it.
This article retraces the stages that led to the so- called “ Engagement 2.0 ” . Transforming the Socia- list party into an e-party involved admitting new forms of political activism and reconciling the real and online worlds, i.e. adjusting the Socialist orga- nization to the digitized world we live in. This gra- dual conversion, which has been anything but uni- directional, has been carried out in keeping with internal rules and strategies. In fact, the digitiza- tion of partisan commitment appears to be closely related to the presidentialization of the Socialist organization as a whole.
