Many people assume that politicians rely on the television and newspapers only for their two sources of media exposure, but as we “bloggers” know, they are wrong. In the chapter called “Toward a More Participatory Democracy” from David Kline and Dan Burstein’s Blog!: How the Newest Media Revolution is Changing Politics, Business, and Culture it talks about how blogs affect politics when bloggers post certain things that may hurt or help a politicians campaign.
When I began reading this chapter I didn’t quite understand how blogs could affect things as big as the Presidential Election of 2004. As I read on I realized that blogs can play a big part in elections, but only if used correctly. The book said that Kerry’s e-mails were mostly about wanting money. This was not an effective thing to do using e-mail, obviously, because he is not our president right now. This chapter has opened my eyes to the effectiveness of blogging and the internet. So in conclusion people should be very conscious about what they are putting on the internet or their blogs for everyone to see.
Lindsay
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Good work.
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