Internet in the US mid-term elections
Of recent, I have been doing a little, impressionistic survey of added-value Internet use in the 2006 mid-term election [you need to start somewhere!].
As the dust begins to settle, overviews of the digital election begin to surface.
A number of articles flagged the growing importance of Web 2.0 [some claim that ‘widgetry’ counts as Web 3.0, time shall tell].
In the Washington Post, Web sweeping election coverage [Paul J. Gough] provides an overview of big media players’ online offerings.
There is data from the Beving report, mentioned in a previous entry. Again on the more academic site [perspective, perspective!], you can read an article by Michael Cornfield and Lee Rainie, The Web Era Isn’t as New as You Think, published in the Post.
There are interesting prima facie accounts, from the inside, as in the case of Matt Stoller.
And there si commentary on the overall significance of the Internet in the economy of the election, as in the case of this review by e-politics team and of this article form Alan Rosenblatt.
Of course, you would expect some noise from the sceptics’ camp. Here’s one, The Neetroot election? Not so fast, published in The Nation. The gist being, ehr, not so fast, not so important after all. All wind and no sail for progressive bloggers, it is claimed.
In terms of novelties, yours truly has spotted the ‘exchange’ feature of the CNN website, where people could contribute to campaign coverage. The i-reports featured there deserve some close research attention.
Oh, and e-voting wasn’t very smooth, according to some…
As the dust begins to settle, overviews of the digital election begin to surface.
A number of articles flagged the growing importance of Web 2.0 [some claim that ‘widgetry’ counts as Web 3.0, time shall tell].
In the Washington Post, Web sweeping election coverage [Paul J. Gough] provides an overview of big media players’ online offerings.
There is data from the Beving report, mentioned in a previous entry. Again on the more academic site [perspective, perspective!], you can read an article by Michael Cornfield and Lee Rainie, The Web Era Isn’t as New as You Think, published in the Post.
There are interesting prima facie accounts, from the inside, as in the case of Matt Stoller.
And there si commentary on the overall significance of the Internet in the economy of the election, as in the case of this review by e-politics team and of this article form Alan Rosenblatt.
Of course, you would expect some noise from the sceptics’ camp. Here’s one, The Neetroot election? Not so fast, published in The Nation. The gist being, ehr, not so fast, not so important after all. All wind and no sail for progressive bloggers, it is claimed.
In terms of novelties, yours truly has spotted the ‘exchange’ feature of the CNN website, where people could contribute to campaign coverage. The i-reports featured there deserve some close research attention.
Oh, and e-voting wasn’t very smooth, according to some…
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