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By Shannon Travis, CNN.com Might future presidential debates feature candidates that voters can’t see, can’t hear and who answer questions in 140 characters or less? While televised presidential debates are far from political extinction, what’s certain is that more and more presidential-type forums are making significant use of social media or wholly being broadcast online. […]...
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By Neil Munro, The Daily Caller Facebook’s managers are deploying a new software upgrade that will dismantle myriad groups of like-minded political activists unless they get a special software-key from the company. But Facebook manager are providing very limited information about which groups are being favored with the new key, prompting some activists to complain […]...
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by Austin Carr, Fast Company When it comes to debating the issues, the public has a hard time sifting through all the political theater, biases, and endless muckraking. Between boilerplate-spewing press secretaries, 30-second attack ads, and swiftboating, it’s often difficult to figure out where candidates and elected officials stand on hot policy topics like health […]...
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By Nick Judd, techPresident So last night’s Republican primary debate, despite being so early and without a party headliner, still managed to outdo chatter about Osama bin Laden in terms of Twitter conversation: “GOP” in Twitter mentions as seen through Trendistic, compared to “obl” (for references to Osama bin Laden) and, as a baseline, the […]...
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BY GREGORY FERENSTEIN, FAST COMPANY From Crimson Hexagon, the social media analysis firm that dispelled the myth of the Verizon iPhone exodus and Sharon Angle’s 2010 Senate sweep, comes a truer-to-life snapshot of the world’s reaction to Osama Bin Laden’s death. Nearly 50% of social media reaction wasn’t simple jubilation, but rather a mixture of […]...
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By Kate Kaye, ClickZ.com Democrats, along with Obama’s campaign operation, have already spent close to half a million dollars online this year in getting the 2012 reelection campaign off the ground. The Democratic National Committee has been the bigger spender thus far, dropping around $425,000 on digital. According to ClickZ Politics analysis of Federal Election […]...
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By Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times Four years ago, Barack Obama kicked off his presidential campaign on the steps of Illinois’ Old State Capitol, speaking in front of thousands of supporters and a throng of media. Earlier this month, when he formally announced his reelection campaign, he did so without public appearance, in an online […]...
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By Meredith Gessup, TheBlaze.com The dawn of the 21st century has bid farewell to pen and paper communications and opened the door to digital pokes, likes and status updates. If you don’t know what those terms means, there‘s a good chance you’re now in the minority of Americans who have not logged on to Facebook, […]...
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By Star Parker, Townhall.com The facedown in Congress on the federal budget must be about principles as well as absolute spending. No drunk will sober up if he only thinks about how much he drinks and not about why. There is nothing more repugnant and flagrantly misplaced in the federal budget than the $360 million […]...
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by Aaron Smith, Senior Research Specialist, Pew Internet & American Life Project More than half of all American adults were online political users in 2010 Fully 73% of adult internet users (representing 54% of all U.S. adults) went online to get news or information about the 2010 midterm elections, or to get involved in the […]...
