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Also some fuel for ideas

Sito Wa — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:17:18 -0400

Yeah, also I was fueled with ideas from the following site www.omfica.org
Lot of interesting things for political scientists majoring in IT :)))))

Definitely yes to on-line Democracy

Sito Wa — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:12:31 -0400

I think that Internet will give an opportunity to build at least a virtual democratic society, since interactive nature of new media provides the audience an opportunity to participate in the communication flow, to select, frame, disseminate information and instantaneously react to it, serving, in some cases, as gate-keepers for traditional media outlets. As more blogs are gradually penetrating into and blurring with the mainstream media, the agenda-setting power of traditional media becomes questionable. Who, after all, sets the agenda in this new, two-sided model of mass communication?
I have a lot of works and ideas on that. Also alternative search engines do really matter

PoliticsWeb2.0: The Rise of Trickle-Up Politics

Micah L. Sifry — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:54:53 -0400

Here are my notes on a very interesting talk by Rachel Gibson of the University of Manchester, titled "Trickle-up Politics? The Impact of Web 2.0 technologies on citizen participation." I think you'll find her overview and characterizations of politics before and during the web to be very helpful.