As we have learned over the course of this semester, the new media has altered political discourse in our society in a variety of important ways. The new media’s power in helping political candidates fund-raise for their campaigns has been made crystal clear in recent years – Barack Obama’s incredible fundraising success in 2008, and the [...]
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In the summer of 2010, the New York Times and FiveThirtyEight.com, a statistics-based political blog operated by statistician Nate Silver, entered into a three-year partnership agreement. As part of the agreement, the New York Times would host FiveThirtyEight under its banner in the “Politics” section on its website for three years, and, in return, FiveThirtyEight would [...] Anne’s insightful blog post from last week, titled, “Citizen Journalism: Viable in a Censored Internet” thoughtfully illustrated that the benefits of citizen journalism often depend on the cultural context in which it is situated, and seemed to imply that the benefits of citizen journalism are constrained by the cultural and political norms of any given society. [...] Twitter has become an increasingly vital political communications tool for political leaders: Sarah Palin’s Twitter account is followed by over 390,000 people, for instance, while a stunning six million people currently follow President Obama’s tweets. The Democratic Party has a Twitter account featuring policy updates and announcements as well as links to the twitter feeds of [...] |
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