Until the historic presidential campaign of 2008, most American's memories of political t-shirts were limited. These short-sleeved garments were red and blue on white cotton, always featuring the candidate's name (often last name only), and maybe a star and stripe somewhere to make it look distinctive. These t-shirts expressed an...

Throughout this election season, social media like blogs and Twitter have helped people observing the political horse race and watching debates talk with each other about what they are seeing. A new Web site that launched two days ago, Twitter Vote Report, aims to take this increased communication to...

New media forms continue to electrify the 2008 election season by propelling candidates' messages - and our opinions of them - across the Web. Last Friday, the traditional medium of television blended with social media for the Current TV and Twitter project, "Hack the Debate". This unique...

The image accompanying this post was made by Sam Flores and Munk One for Obama and can be found here on NotCot.
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Visual artists mobilizing for Barack Obama are producing images of the candidate and dispersing them through Web sites and blogs, attaining mass reach into a...

While traditional media outlets excel in wordiness during election season, one social media outlet proudly flaunts its brevity. Twitter is a free "microblogging" service that lets anyone share online what they are doing or thinking, in 140 characters or less (including spaces). Many Twitter users are now "tweeting"--sending out--their...

New media is threatening to upend TV's stranglehold on how U.S. presidential candidates get their messages out to the people. YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, blogs, and the candidates' own websites have added a complicated dimension to the 2008 race. Are these digital additions clouding or clarifying what candidates want to...