Results tagged “politics” from Technology and the U.S. Experience

After reading James Cerbie's draft of his research paper, it has become apparent that his is nearly my antithesis. His paper swoons over the benefits of Blogs, even going so far as to say that Blogs are a good source of Investigative Journalism. I'm sorry, but where did this come from? When was the last time any of us saw a blog that UNCOVERED a huge news story?

Does anybody out there know a good teacher here to interview concerning blogs and politics.  I know I want to look in the political science department, but I was just wondering who out there may know the most on the subject?

I was just wondering how, if any, you guys used online social networking sites, such as facebook or myspace, in relation to the 2008 election. 

I already have some good sources, but I have been wondering whether or not I should interview someone from the political science department to get their take on blogs as a news source in politics?  What do you all think? 

I am planning on investigating politics and their relationship to social networking sites. I'm still not sure how I am going to narrow the topic. I was thinking about arguing that the future of political campaigns lies in social networking sites and not print media. Any thoughts?

After searching for the past several weeks for a legitimate topic, Professor Miller and myself concluded that writing about blogs would be the best option.  My ideas so far are to either look at blogs as a legitimate source of investigative journalism, to look at the effects of blogs on politics and see where it takes me, or discuss how to determine the legitimacy of a blog.  My question is where should I start and where should I go to find some solid information?

Leo Marx, and his theory that improved technology does not necessarily improve society, would probably believe that my thesis that blogs have changed the way that Americans receive news, and allow the populace to distribute news based on what they think is important.

                Marx argued that improved technology sometimes may be detrimental to civilization and technology may be used to repress, not necessarily helping society. I think that he would believe that the distribution of news by more decentralized sources may lead to a less political influence on the news, and blogging has done just that. While some blogs are still greatly influenced by political views, the spectrum is no longer as specialized, such as liberal newspapers or conservative radio.

                Marx would think that such a diverse group of sources for news will help to bring to the forefront of news what regular Americans think is important, instead of what biased news sources want us to believe.