The Foolishness of Crowds

Importing the wiki model of policymaking will mean less democracy, not more. A response to Beth Simone Noveck.

Issue #8, Spring 2008, Democracy

Progressive Re-Generation

At times in American political history, young generations have formed lasting ties to parties and ideologies. Is 2008 one of those times?
Ben Adler | February 25, 2008 at Politico

URL: http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=progressive_re_generation

Super Tuesday: A Voter’s Guide To Election Coverage on the Web

Wired blog by Sarah Lai Stirland,February 05, 2008 | 4:58:05 PM

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/02/super-tuesday-a.html

News organizations’ web sites are playing a growing role in Campaign 2008. And starting 7 pm Eastern time when the polls on the East Coast start closing, they’ll be abuzz with news updates, commentary, live video reports and blogging.

Does “Obama Girl” help Obama?

Column by Farhad Manjoo

Author Clay Shirky explains how the Internet’s capacity to create ad hoc groups has altered the media, business and politics — especially the 2008 campaign.

Political Privacy and Online Politics: How E-Campaigning Threatens Voter Privacy

by Christopher D. Hunter

First Monday, volume 7, number 2 (February 2002),
URL: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_2/hunter/index.html

This paper will explore the importance of political privacy, its protection through our rights to associational privacy and anonymous speech, and the many ways that the political preferences of citizens are compromised online by campaign Web sites, database and e-mail marketers, and excessive U.S. Federal Election Commission disclosure rules. The potential negative effects of a monitored electorate on the democratic process are also examined.

Behind the Winning Entries: PolitiFact

the digital edge blog, March 12, 2008 by Beth Lawton

http://www.naa.org/blog/digitaledge/1/2008/03/Behind-the-Winning-Entries-PolitiFact.cfm

Internet Democracy

Lists of top two most-viewed pro-candidate YouTube videos for each major contender

by Scott McLeod

Ten democracy projects in seventy minutes

blog by Ethan Zuckerman, January 17, 2007

http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2007/01/15/ten-democracy-projects-in-seventy-minutes/

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised:

Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything

by Joe Trippi

This is the story of how Trippi’s revolutionary use of the Internet and an impassioned, contagious desire to overthrow politics as usual grew into a national grassroots movement and changed the face of politics forever.

Technology aids Obama’s outreach drive

Volunteers answer call on social networking site

By Brian C. Mooney, Globe Staff | February 24, 2008, The Boston Globe

More than any previous presidential campaign, Obama’s effort is transforming politics with its use of technology. The astounding fund-raising figures are well documented – the campaign keeps a running tally on its website as it closes in on 1 million donors. But Obama’s team has taken the use of the Internet to another level by allowing masses of volunteers to self-organize over the past year and communicate through their own social networking site, my.barackobama.com.