New Media Forms Boost Youth Participation In Debates
By adding an interactive edge to the traditional, communal experience of television, there is bound to be social impact, though it is still to be determined because this media is so new.
By adding an interactive edge to the traditional, communal experience of television, there is bound to be social impact, though it is still to be determined because this media is so new.
Andrew Cherwenka | Posted 10.01.2008 | Media
The McCain web strategists are combining an outdated strategy of tight control with a woeful neglect of Web 2.0 tools.
Kevin Grandia | Posted 09.20.2008 | Media
Technorati will be releasing their latest State of the Blogosphere report next week. I got a sneak preview of the contents of that report right from R...
Andrew Cherwenka | Posted 09.10.2008 | Politics
A few quick searches on Technorati confirms it: We're not all talking about Palin. The Obama machine continues to dominate the web, with mentions of his name in 1.7 million blog posts.
Jerri Chou | Posted 08.27.2008 | Politics
Ask which city is home to the largest international contemporary art biennial ever in America, or the only one with a government department of social ...
Todd Andrlik | Posted 08.14.2008 | Chicago
Just as beer is a social lubricant in real life, Twitter and Facebook are social lubricants online and have made the 160-year-old newspaper more approachable than ever.
Ann Handley | Posted 06.28.2008 | Living
When you are prone to measuring yourself against others, like I am, and when you both work and live out chunks of your life online, as I do, the Inter...
Jerry Weinstein | Posted 06.18.2008 | Home
The Filter is the next step in Social Media. When The Filter went beta this past April, it received gushing press, based not only on Peter Gabriel's &...
Yvette Kantrow | Posted 05.30.2008 | Media
We all want our journalism to be thoroughly reported, which often means talking to scores of people when shaping stories and ideas. But does that mean we want reporting to become just another American Idol-like exercise?
Andrea Learned | Posted 05.29.2008 | Living
These days there are a lot of overblown expectations surrounding technology, the Internet and social media -- especially in the business realm.
Kristin Gorski | Posted 04.01.2008 | Home
"By placing such an emphasis on building a visually appealing brand, Obama is validating the importance of design in communication. This in turn builds support from the design community, who might feel that a design-conscious candidate best represents their personal beliefs," Aw says.
Ann Handley | Posted 02.10.2008 | Living
Almost a year ago, I set up a Facebook profile and began greedily gathering armfuls of friends like Dorothy gathering poppies in Oz, plucking them fro...
Kristin Gorski | Posted 01.21.2008 | Home
While traditional media outlets excel in wordiness during election season, one social media outlet proudly flaunts its brevity. Twitter is a free "mic...
Anna Papadopoulos | Posted 10.27.2007 | Media
The mores of marketing in the social media environment requires advertisers to behave in a manner that it counterintuitive to how they have traditionally behaved.
David Brooks spoke frankly about the presidential and...
The insta-polls, which provide viewers with a somewhat skewed but important insight into how each...
You got to give credit to the American people, who managed to get through an...
In Debate II, John McCain twice laid out the criteria for how the American...
We've come to lower our expectations for real debates in the...
They say that Senator McCain's strong suit is the town hall debate. If this was, in fact, Senator McCain's strength, he might...
Joe Biden lashed out at Sarah Palin on Wednesday, calling her recent rhetoric...
Madonna went on VP candidate "Sarah fucking Paling" at her Madison Square Garden show Monday...
Jim VandeHei and John Harris of The Politico have gone and decreed last night's debate "The worst...
Fresh from the celebration of their 16th wedding anniversary on Friday, the Obamas shared...
The view from a hovering...
NEW YORK — A stock market empowered by an emergency interest rate cut...
The newest issue of Men's Health has what is sure to be an illuminating...
Kristin Gorski | Posted 10.02.2008 | Home