I sat down today with Tantum (Teddy) Collins, Yale student and President of the Yale International Relations Association (YIRA) to discuss the role of new media in the protests that have swept across the Middle East. Having lived in many different countries throughout his life, including Jordan, Teddy’s perspective differs from firsthand views of native peoples [...]
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We’ve all heard it a million times. Barack Obama’s internet campaign was revolutionary, entirely responsible for his candidacy and election, and forever changed the way politicians interact with their constituencies. Great. That must have been a wake-up call for McCain and the Republican National Committee, right? I mean, if I had just been handed a decisive [...] I found these two related articles while browsing around various blog sites. First, from a new media blog posting and old media clip (which is at the very end of the article), we have this Followed up on the same day with this post from New Media conservative blogger Patterico I stand by my assertion that new media allows [...] In this class we have talked a lot about whether or not new media will ever be able to overtake the old media in its ability to report the news. Though I do not feel that new media sources will ever be able to be as powerful as the old media, I do feel that the [...] |
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