How Politics Are Used Through the Internet'

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How Politics Are Used Through the Internet.

• Hart Crane and Lydia Bisantz

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Politics Before and After

• In Masseys Time Door to door, actual mail,
  personal contact, etc. (Actually going to a
  speech)
• Now mass emails, pop ups, mass phone
  calls/voicemails, ads on websites, debates are
  online now
• This loss of personal contact is
  everywhereWhat would you prefer?Does it
  matter the type of campaigning?

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Censorshipof Online Politics

• There isnt any! (unlike China, for example)
• Say what you want, when you want, how you want
• Blogs, ads, home-made videos, out-of-context
  speeches, etc against candidates
• Obama 195 million dollars via internet ads
• McCain 99 million dollars via internet
  ads?electionunspun.org
• Facebook, Myspace, Pop-ups, Google, etcShould
  it be censored?

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The Uses and Misuses

• Uses
• Unlimited Information
• Multiple sources
• View many sides of arguments at onceMisuses
• Credibility?
• Slander
• Libel
• Fake accusations

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Can the Internet be Trusted?

• E-voting systems provide
• Cons
• Less accountability
• Poorer reliability
• Greater opportunity for fraud
• Pros
• Less space for lies (Transparency)
• Participation
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vbA8UCYBLElYWould
  you vote online?

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Some Stats

• 24 of Americans say they regularly learn
  something about the campaign from the internet,
  increased from 13 last year
• 42 of the 18-29 demographic on Facebook say they
  regularly learn about the campaign on the
  internet
• BarackObama has a support group on Facebook
  that contains 2,223,417 members, McCains group
  contains 590,547
• Combined 210 million on online campaigning

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Some more

• By 2015 Generation Y will be 48 million strong.
• Voters ages 18-29 were 21 of the electorate in
  2006
• 39 percent on this new demographic is non white
  and 29 of them dont go to college.
• The increased participation in primaries has gone
  up 103 since 2004

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The Now

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v9hi-f237v2A
• This is who the guy is
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seesmic
• A bias opinion of the situation
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vGvneW67ltKUfeature
  related
• If you didnt like him
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vee2SKV1t3Ag

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The importance of information

• Have a duty as a demographic to inform ourselves.
• All these different sources via the internet are
  the gateway to unlimited knowledge. (some
  unwanted)
• Narrow minded attentiveness is not beneficial.
• Hearing all sides to a subject
• Internet lets us bypass the media and television.

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Sites

• http//www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/234/report_displa
  y.asp
• http//www.electionunspun.org
• http//www.youtube.com
• http//www.yda.org/tools/19/youth-statistics