Soapbox, echo chamber, and salon: Social media and civic engagement
Rachel Bridgewater & Anne-Marie Deitering
Online Northwest, 2009
Media Use & Civic Engagement data
Pew Internet and American Life project
- Post-Election voter engagement (12/30/08)
- The Internet and the 2008 election (6/15/08)
- The Internet gains in politics (1/11/08)
Huffington Post and Politico lead wave of explosive growth at independent political blogs and news sites this election season (comScore.com press release)
News sites attract record audience on election night (TechCrunch)
Media infusion: Promoting civic engagement in the MySpace age (PBS)
Youth as e-citizens (Center for Social Media)
Soapbox
American Society of Newspaper Editors Canons of Journalism - 1923 (and the current revision)
overlapping media types - social media, online media, traditional media…
NYTimesPolitics - the NYT on twitter
washingtonpost - WaPo on twitter
totn - Talk of the Nation on twitter
CSPAN Convention Hub: Democrats and Republicans
CNN.com, Facebook team on live inauguration stream (Mediaweek)
Facebook + CNN = Future of TV (Salon.com)
Facebook’s big day: 1.5 million Obama-related status updates via CNN (TechCrunch)
CNN online traffic tops on Inauguration Day (AP via GoogleNews)
The communal Inauguration (ConnectedWorldMedia)
Echo Chamber
Cass Sunstein’s Infotopia (my heart’s in accra) - an extended book review, includes a nice overview of the echo chamber concept in the online environment
Trapped in the Echo Chamber (Andrew Leonard, Salon.com)
Can we retire the ‘echo chamber’ now? (Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard)
web pulse (linkfluence [see hear plan])
Cover this! Inside the nastiest ‘08 rumors (Politico)
Hargittai, E., Gallo, J., & Kane, M. (2008).
Cross-Ideological Discussions among Conservative and Liberal Bloggers.
Public Choice. 134:67-86. (Web Use Project)
Mutz, D. & Martin,P. (2001). Facilitating communication across lines of political difference: The Role of Mass Media. American Political Science Review, 95(1).
Manjoo, F. (2008). True Enough: Learning to live in a post-fact society
Bishop, B. (2005). The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart
Adamic, L. & Glance, N. (2005). The Political Blogosphere and the 2004 U.S. Election:. Divided They Blog.
Azi Lev-On and Bernard Manin, “Happy accidents: Deliberation and online exposure to opposing views.” Forthcoming in Online Deliberation: Design, Research and Practice, ed. Todd Davies. Chicago Center for the Study of Language and information.
Garrett, Kelly (2005) Echo Chambers or Windows on the World? Partisan Selective Exposure and the Online News Environment.
Salon
Andrew Baoill. Weblogs and the Public Sphere (Into the Blogosphere)
A. Michael Froomkin. Habermas@Discourse.net: Toward a critical theory of cyberspace. (preprint - PDF)
A Political Blogger’s Reading List (extensions blog) - this post includes readings about: what blogs are, the theory of political blogging, the history of political blogging, and a discussion of the importance of community/community practice.
Conversation
What the Inauguration taught me about live events (Museum 2.0) - an analysis of the CNN/Facebook integration.
A message for Obama pool (flickr)
I Hope So Too (New York Times)
Twitter: An antidote to election day voting problems? (techPresident)
My Fair Election (rate your polling place)
Medill students, with Knight’s help, launch web site with Facebook app - new way of commenting (Editor & Publisher)
Social Streams (Microsoft Live Labs)
The emerging web and the mainstream media
Is David Letterman now the best news interviewer on TV? (The Feed blog, St. Petersburg Times)
The top 10 media blunders of 2008 (Politico)
Five things Google could do for newspapers (Wired)
The Huffington Post raises $25 million from Oak Investment Partners (TechCrunch)
The Internet and the death of Rovian politics (Huffington Post)
Don’t scrap the squiggle (Crooked Timber)
Eyewitnesses to history
Election Night 11-04-08 (Barack Obama’s flickr photostream)
Inauguration 2009 (flickr pool)
A twitterer relates his experience in Denver plane crash (Demidog blog)
TheHyperFix - The WaPo’s Chris Cillizza live-tweets White Press press briefings
Evaluating political information
FactCheck.org (Annenberg Public Policy Center)
PolitiFact.com Truth-o-Meter (St. Petersburg Times)
FiveThirtyEight.com: Politics done right
OpenSecrets.org: Money in Politics
5 great sites to help you keep track of the government (infodoodads)
Remixing/ content creation
Reconstitution: Live Remix of the 2008 Presidential Debates (report at Infosthetics)
The campaign in posters (Steamboats are Ruining Everything)
Fake is good: The people behind Twitter’s candidate parodies (Capitol Comment blog)
Viral Video Chart - US Presidential Candidates
and Open Government –
Principles for open government: A three-point plan for an open Obama administraton (BoingBoing)
Really great news from YouTube (Lessig Blog)
How public figures are leveraging the participatory web (note: this was not a part of this talk, but it’s an approach a lot of other people are probably going to be taking to this topic, and it’s definitely related)
Change.gov is gonna come (Guardian)
Government 2.0: Rise of the Goverati (ReadWriteWeb)
Propelled by Internet, Barack Obama wins Presidency (Wired)
Congressional twittering -
Hoekstra faces heavy criticism for twittering mideast trip (CQ Politics)
Lawmakers all a-twitter (Politico)
Barack Obama’s flickr photostream (my favorite - backstage, Election Night)
Cool Stuff that doesn’t fit above
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