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Australian Polticians Utilising Myspace
The 51st state always lags behind a little bit. But now it has finally caught up. As The Age reports, various Australian Federal Government ministers and shadow ministers are to create MySpace profiles before the election in order to reach the alienated youth:
The site’s director of safety and security, Rod Nockles, said the project would [...]
More on the impact of the web on the 2008 election
“Whether announcing their candidacy online or rueing the release of revealing video clips, no contender for the White House in 2008 can ignore the power of the internet”, writes, Laura Smith-Spark of BBC.
“Barely a week goes by without a political story breaking on a blog or social networking site like YouTube and MySpace”.
We know this [...]
I hear there’s something called “blogs…”
“I wonder what’s happening in Norwegian politics” is a question you haven’t been asking yourself lately. Even so, Espen here at Blog Campaigning wanted me to write something about it, and considering we’re in the run-up to the campaign season I figured I might as well take a look at how the internet is likely [...]
The Ethical Problems of Alternate Reality Gaming and Party Politics
This is Gaming 2.0 at its best:
World Without Oil is a month-long collaborative alternate reality project funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and ITVS. It’s the first alternate reality game to tackle a real-world problem: oil dependency.
World Without Oil imagines we are already living on the other side of the “peak oil” moment. The [...]
Gaming on the campaign trail
The last video game I bought was Ghost Recon Advance Warfighter for the Xbox 360: It scored rave reviews and can be bought for a cheap price. The first warning sign should have been the feeling of embarrassment that was slowly creeping up when I took it home with me on the bus. It actually [...]
Young Bloggers on the Front Line of Presidential Campaigns
MTV.com, yes, you got that right, MTV, as in the useless music channel, features an interesting interview with, Stephen Smith, Director of online communications for the Romney campaign, and Sam Graham-Felsen, Blogger for the Obama campaign, this week. In the interview Smith and Graham-Felsen are sharing some of their experiences with the campaigns so far [...]
More people base their voter decision on what they read on the Internet
I just located another study confirming the growing impact that the Internet has on voter decisions.
A Performic survey released in February found that 42 percent of Americans say the Internet will pay an important role in deciding who they will vote for in the upcoming presidential election.
In a press release revealing the results of the [...]
Electioneering via Internet = increase in votes
Politicians who miss net boat could miss vote reads the headline of Silicon Republican, Ireland’s Technology News Service today.
“Irish politicians who fail to embrace new media such as the internet, email, blogging and even social networking sites like YouTube are in danger of losing out on a vast number of younger people in their [...]
Blog Campaigning: 4. Literature review