the detailed differences between a message board and a weblog.

 

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This article deals with the power of political blogs in local politics.  It focuses upon how candidates with little or no name recognition can gain some quick ground through the blogisphere.  By using this low cost resource to throw their name into the political arena, new candidates gain the ability to hit potential voters individually and with tons of information very quickly.

This resource is a classical book for politicians about the best way to increase voter turnout. I focused upon the chapter 5, whic is about online methods of registration, online listserves, blogs, and chatrooms. It gives a scientific method for politicians to figure out the best way to spend their funds in an election. Looking at blogs and the power of the internet in electorial politics, the chapter attempts to gauge the influence blogs could have upon potential voters and elections.

This website has a decent amount of information about blogs and the internet. Shirky has a varied and long background and has been on the forefront of emerging media. The website is very up to date and is a good place to find out about the different forms of open source media and their influence upon culture.

This article in the NY times focuses on the communities that blogs actually can create.  The advent of the blogisphere has allowed for the creation of new communties and social networks.  This Carnival in Jersey shows that the blogisphere is bring people together who would normally never meet, talk, or know that others like them existed.  Applebome's shows that in its early stages, the blogisphere is doing something that no other media or forums have been able to do.  Make mass social networks and communities with personal relationships that surpass those created in more traditional venues.

This blog is one of the few blogs devoted to both race and politics.  Though there are many blogs out there that talk about these issues, this site is overtly about African Americans and politics.  It is interesting becuase it shows how diverse, yet specific blogs can become.  Though it is not the only type of blog like this, it is interesting because it allows for an African American opinion over the blogisphere.

This website is the most visited political blog on the internet according to technorati.com.  It is run by a law professor at the University of Tennessee.  He seems to be a little on the conservative side, but this blog is a great example of the 1) the people who run blogs, 2) the amount of connection between blogs, and 3) how information is dealt out over the blogisphere. 

this site is an actual blog.  It varies on topics, but has a lot about political issues with a very liberal spin.  The resource is a blog that allows insight into how information is deseminated and how moderators focus their blogs.

This website is the mecca of all blog sites.  Like the google rating, technorati allows users to search for the most used and visited blogs on the net.  Using the number of hits a given blog recieves and the number of links to that blog, the site calculates a ranking for the "best" blogs on the net.  The political rankings are most interesting becuase they are varied.  Some are conservative, some are liberal, some religious, and all the top ones are connected to quasi-intellectuals.  This seems to be one of the few ways to gauge the number of blogs being visited and the content that most bloggers are looking for.

This NY times article focuses on the ethics behind blogging.  It examines the if there should be a code for bloggers and if they should be held up to the same standard as other print medias.  Since bloggers are considered amatuers by nature, they fall under the radar.  Shear attempts to consider whether bloggers should be held accountable for their actions because of the surge in the number of bloggers over the past couple of years.

This book is a great resource. It is one of the few books in the library about the emergence of discussion boards on the internet. Davis breaks down both the emergence and the influence of these types of forums upon American democracy and the way these new ways of mass communication influence politics. It's in depth analysis of the way in which blogs played an integral role in disseminating information during the 2004 Presidental election gives deep insight to the ways this medium can help shape a public's political consciousness.

This book is a bit dated, but is an early look at how weblogs have influenced society. It is a compilation of multiple articles and speaks about a varied number of topics. Most of the topics are about culture and the influence of weblogs upon social interaction and public forums. A good resource to use for preliminary stages of looking at internet blogs.

This page talks about the future of blogs and the new way in which media is going to be transmitted over the internet. It talks about the rise of RSS feeds and how they are overtaking the blogisphere on the internet. The article shows how RSS feeds outnumber almost all other forms of media on the net.

This 2002 book is a very good resource to use becuase it is a look at the potential influence of online forums in politics. Primarily dealing with online voting and voter registration, it is a look at the best potential ways to find out information as both a voter or activist. It takes a very detailed look at the use of the internet in the 1996 elections and how this election was somewhat of an experiment to figure out how to best use the internet in politics.

This is the best resource I have found in the library concerning teh use of blogs in American democracy. It is a short read coming in at about 150 pages and gives tons of information about bloggers and their actual participation in politics. Like most political books about stratifying an electorate, it has tons of data. Great resource.

This recent essay on the importance of blogs in politics is a very informative and compelling work. Denzer's essay has a deep focus upon the origins and the effects of blogs upon the American political structure. It also has a tremendous amount of links that lead to great resources for anyone interested in the internet and American politics. An excellent resource.

This journal article is somewhat boring, but effective. It is written in a classical Political Science style and is more interested in designs, graphs, and diagrams than in the theories behind the data. It is a good primary resource, but speaks very broadly about the varying ways the internet influences politics and vice-versa. Robertson has some great primary resources and could lead to better articles or essays.

This article is less than a year old and does not have to deal with American politics. However, it is a well written critique and analysis of the influences of political blogs upon a democracy. It gives an international take upon the importance of blogs upon a democratic populace.

This is a very short article about the influences of blogs upon journalism and users of the internet. it primarily talks about the unresolved issues of open source media without digging very deep into some of the causes for such issues.

This website has tons of links to great resources. Both profit and non-profit websites with political blogs are readily available. The information on the website allows for a good starting place to look into the relationship between blogs and politics in American. By seperating the different types of blogs out there, it makes it much easier to scoure the internet for information about blogs and politics.

This book is a compilation of many articles concerning blogs. After tracking down a copy, it seems to have a huge amount of information about the influences of blogs upon American culture. With a variety of articles, culture and politics come up in varying degrees. A great place to find out some more detailed information about the influence of blogs upon the American populace.

This article talks about technorati.com, a blog tracker which keeps up on the number of hits and trackbacks a given blog possesses.

This book is an older version of Davis' later Politics Online. Unlike his later endeavor, Web is a theory based book. It feels as if this book gives Davis' theory for how the internet should work with politics and Politics Online is his research into trying to prove his hypotheses. Still a good earlier work about the potential power of the internet in teh electoral process and delibrative democracy.

This is a journal entry about rhetoric and persausive ways in which internet blogs can influence people's opinions. It is a critique of the good and bad sides of blogs. Primarily focusing on the bad it talks about the issues that blogers face when trying to manuver their way through the blogisphere. Though it is not overtly about politics, Krause article raises key issues about the problems faced when lookin at a blog.

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This film is historical because it is the only American film censored by HUAC.