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Monthly Archives: November 2009
Key question — is this just a media/Westminster effect or will it influence constituents?
The sense of the panel is mixed. It is difficult for candidates to tell if constituents are Twitter followers or blog readers. Stephan Shakespeare feels that rise of constituent feedback causes MPs to support causes that are popular but in which they do not believe. Jo Swinson confirmed that constituents do follow her Twitter feed [...]
Iain Dale weighs in
Thinks the Internet will pay an important role, but not a determinative one. Candidates and parties will focus their online efforts on rallying the young, while traditional campaigning will still prevail with other demographic segments. The big risk, especially of Twitter, will be that a candidate will drift off the party line and it will [...]
First Obama reference
Catherine Mayer, who interestingly claims that Obama wasn't doing things differently because of online, but was using online tools to do very traditional campaigning.
Paul Waugh fundamentally agrees with Jo Swinson
The big expenses story broke in traditional media and was amplified online. When the Guardian tried crowdsourcing the expenses story, it did not get any good content and was very disappointed. YouTube moments are just good speeches published a new way. These are just new methods, and politicians here are still breaking news and stories [...]
Another interesting perspective from Jo Swinson
Talking about how online serves to uncover and amplify previously local and hidden content or commentary. In the US, of course, the big moment like this was the Macaca comment in Virginia.
First audience question…will more blogs become anonymous?
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