Comments on: How Blogosphere Is Influencing the Presidential Election http://pjnet.org/post/1925/ Public Journalism Network Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:59:16 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Havana http://pjnet.org/post/1925/comment-page-1/#comment-6853 Havana Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:05:44 +0000 http://pjnet.org/?p=1925#comment-6853 I was at the PostMortem forum and found it absolutely fascinating to hear the commentary from so many different perspectives! I found your comments really interesting; it's so crazy that it's only been 4 years since the last campaign but blogging has impacted this campaign so heavily. Obama ran an incredible campaign. I wish I had found these links above, though! It will definitely be interesting to see what will happen to journalism, though. Do you think blogging will also balloon the number of "Independents"? Or bring third parties into the light (though during this campaign, it was rather hard to move your attention from the superstars)? I've always felt that Americans have fallen into complacency with the system-- the most anyone does is complain about it but there isn't really a big amount of activism anymore and I've always wondered if it was due to the influence of the media. Now that we have access to so many OTHER outlets for information and opinions can be published so easily, do you think that will nudge Americans OUT of complacency? If you have the time, I would love to hear your thoughts. I wish the postmortem thing went on longer, haha. I'm currently bouncing around the idea of changing my major to international affairs ... do you teach anything in that area? :) I was at the PostMortem forum and found it absolutely fascinating to hear the commentary from so many different perspectives! I found your comments really interesting; it’s so crazy that it’s only been 4 years since the last campaign but blogging has impacted this campaign so heavily. Obama ran an incredible campaign. I wish I had found these links above, though!

It will definitely be interesting to see what will happen to journalism, though. Do you think blogging will also balloon the number of “Independents”? Or bring third parties into the light (though during this campaign, it was rather hard to move your attention from the superstars)? I’ve always felt that Americans have fallen into complacency with the system– the most anyone does is complain about it but there isn’t really a big amount of activism anymore and I’ve always wondered if it was due to the influence of the media. Now that we have access to so many OTHER outlets for information and opinions can be published so easily, do you think that will nudge Americans OUT of complacency?

If you have the time, I would love to hear your thoughts. I wish the postmortem thing went on longer, haha. I’m currently bouncing around the idea of changing my major to international affairs … do you teach anything in that area? :)

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