The 2008 Election and the Internet
Barack Obama has over 50,000 friends on the popular social networking site MySpace.
A site entitled TechPresident.com is a “group blog that covers how the 2008 presidential candidates are using the web, and vice versa, how content generated by voters is affecting the campaign.”
The popular video-sharing website, YouTube, has a “YouChoose ‘08” section that provides a selection of video-clips for each of the candidates.
In a report by PEW Internet & American Life Project, they found that over 50 million Americans use the Internet as their primary source for daily news and 6 million Americans get their daily news via RSS (what’s RSS?). These numbers continue to increase respectively to the number of households that have broadband Internet access.
How is this going to affect the 2008 Presidential election? I think the obvious answer is “A LOT”. My biggest concern is where Internet users are going for this information. The Internet is chock-full of erroneous and incorrect information. Hopefully this site is not one of them. I do my best to throughly research every link I post and comment I make. I would tell surfers to stick with major news outlets for majority of their information. Most major newspapers have on-line editions which are researched and accredited. If you go looking for information elsewhere be sure to check their sources.
I want to hear your opinions. What role will the Internet play in the 2008 Election? Will it be positive or negative?
