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Ms. Very Good Student Student ID 0123456890 The Influence of the Internet and Blogs on Contemporary Politics Govt 2301 Distance Education Fall 2004 CRN 12345 December 3, 2004 Professor Sutter, J.D. Instructor NOTE You will note that I have highlighted the sequential superscript citation numbers in the paper to allow you to see better the proper method of doing Turabian style citation. Notice that every time the write uses a direct quotation in the paper there is a superscript number. The next time she uses another direct quotation in her paper she uses another superscript number, but it is the next number in sequence (eg. 3, then 4). Anytime she paraphrases words from a source, she appropriately puts another number in sequence at the end of the material from the source that she has put in her own words and used. At the end of the paper is the documentation, the information about what source matches up with which quote or paraphrase. Notice that the endnotes are in sequential order (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5....) just like the superscript numbers are within the text (1, 2, 3, 4, 5....). This is how it is done. (You do NOT have to highlight your superscript numbers in yellow in your paper, of course.) Prof Sutter The Internet has become a compelling new venue for contemporary politics. Everyday people have access to information that was previously available only through conventional media formats such as television, newspapers, magazines and radio. More and more Americans are getting online to get their news and commentary, much of it regarding politics and most recently, the presidential campaigns. (Granted, many rely on online news sources that are affiliated with those traditional formats. Just about every newspaper or television news channel has a website). No longer are traditional journalists the only folks spreading news and information. The Internet has become a force to be reckoned withit has become a powerful tool for raising millions of dollars for campaigns, mobilizing support for candidates, especially on a grass-roots level, creating a platform for discussion, and putting the power to shape public opinion into the hands of the people. The cat is out of the bag, said Scott Heiferman, CEO of Meetup.comPeople have it in their brain that they can organize themselves. In 2004, it the Internet was a driving force in the campaign, said Johns Hopkins University graduate student Alexis Rice. She directed a project this year as part of her Masters thesis about the role of the Internet in politics, entitled, Campaigns Online The Profound Impact of the Internet, Blogs and E-Technologies In Presidential Political Campaigning. In her report she examines the history of the weblog, Howard Deans Internetization of his campaign, and the future of this tool in politics. According to Rice, over 55 of Americans are frequently getting online and approximately 70 have their own internet access. With the low cost of internet access, the availability of high-speed internet connections and much more affordable home computers, Internet traffic has increased significantly. Therefore, it makes perfect sense that this medium be so widely used to get political information to everyday citizens. The Internet as a tool utilized by political contenders is still a fairly young concept. In the 1992 presidential election, both Bill Clinton and incumbent George H.W. Bush began using the Internet. However, they used it primarily to solicit financial support and send email messages. By 1996, the use of the internet in the presidential campaign had begun to mature. President Bill Clinton and his opponent Bob Dole had web sites created but both were essentially bulleted platform lists and not much else. The 2000 presidential election saw the first real interactive Web sites along with a successful use of email lists. With this years election, America saw the first real dazzling display of Internet usage to reveal the message of political hopefuls. The first and foremost of these hopefuls was Democrat Howard Dean. He really revolutionized the use of the Internet in his political campaign. Although he did not receive the party nomination, he was able to raise over 50 million in contributions and garner a huge supporter base. It is amazing that a relatively unknown physician, albeit former governor of a tiny state like Vermont, could create such a phenomenon. By using this technology, Dean was able to buck the establishment by essentially circumventing it. The man behind the success of the Dean Internetization phenomenon was his campaign manager, Joe Trippi. In a technology conference earlier this year, the Digital Democracy Teach-In, where Trippi was a guest speaker, he said of the Dean campaign, This is the beginning of the tools, and a platform, to take the country back. Although Dean failed to receive the Democratic nomination, or even make through the primaries, Trippi says this wasnt a dot-com crash. The Howard Dean campaign was a dot-com miracle. He went on to say that not only did Dean raise the most money ever by a Democratic presidential candidate and gain many thousands supporters, he was influential in getting Democrats to speak out against the Bush administration. However, Trippi blames Deans political rivals and an irresponsible, hopelessly conventional news media for knocking the one time front runner from his perch. Further, Trippi believes that both Deans rivals and conventional media outlets are responsible for bashing this new kind of activism that was such an integral part of Deans campaign. Why do they want this movement to fail he asked. Whats so scary about millions of people becoming involved in Democracy Scholar Micah L. Sifray echoes Trippis sentiments about the power and potential of digital democracy and that social software is changing and enhancing the participation of ordinary people in politics. This begs the question, Who are these ordinary people and what are they up to Many of these ordinary people have come to be known as Bloggers. A new trend has come to light with the emergence of the Weblog or blog and it is changing the face of Internet information. They get their name from writing Web logs or simply, blogs. Essentially, blogs are online journals and editorial platforms that are usually updated on a regular basis. Blogs are gaining popularity and are devoted to all sorts of topics everything from traveling to parenting to social issues and concerns. The possibilities are endless. Though most blogs go unread, some have developed a large following. The trend this election year and the blogs that got a great deal of traffic were the ones dedicated to politics. The Pew Internet and American Life Project completed a nationwide survey concluding that over two million blogs are in existence. It is unclear how many are dedicated to politics. Bloggers are not considered, by many, to be traditional journalists. Nonetheless, they are having a tremendous impact on news and political commentary. According to Kathy Kiely of USA Today, Their mission is to remake political journalism and, quite possibly, democracy itself. Generally speaking, only a handful have actual editors and most do not pretend to be purely objective. They have strong opinions, often resort to making scathing remarks, are not afraid to offend, and have become famous for stirring up a lot of bees nests. For example, in 2003, bloggers were largely responsible for the Senates change in leadership. A blogger got hold of a comment Majority leader Trent Lott made at Senator Strom Thurmonds birthday party. Lott said something to the effect that America might have been better off had Thurmond won his segregationist presidential campaign in 1948. Some bloggers believed that the conventional media sources failed to cover this adequately, so they posted the story online. It eventually got the attention of national papers and, ultimately, Lott was forced to resign. Bloggers have become very influential forces in fueling public opinion. Political movers and shakers are taking notice. This year nearly all the major presidential candidates had a blog. It all started with Howard Deans Blog for America. Even Bushs official Web site hosts a bevy of blogs. Its evident that blogs come in all shapes, sizes and flavors. There are conservative, liberal, centrist, non-partisan, libertarian and even anarchist slanted blogs. The beauty of the blog phenomenon is that although they may have wildly differing opinions, bloggers feel very strongly about this new medium. So much so, that they even promote bloggers they dont agree with. This year was the first time this new brand of media was allowed to take part in the national conventions. Bloggers took part in both the Democratic National Convention in Boston and the Republican National Convention in New York. Bloggers hoped to be an integral part of the dialogue and information sources for both conventions. In July, the Democratic Party gave media credentials to a select group of bloggers to act as journalists. Since there was no precedent, the Democratic Party Convention officials created three criteria for choosing which bloggers could attend. Those criteria were the size of the bloggers audience, the professionalism of the site and the amount or original material it included. Unfortunately, those bloggers who attended the Democratic convention left with little more than stories about the bus ride from the hotel, the heavy security in the parking lot their seats in the rafters were terrible, they had trouble getting floor passesand the only thing the bloggers really had the inside scoop on were the balloons hanging a few feet away from them in the rafters. These bloggers were able to get re-focused on the task of covering the Republican Convention. This time they figured out it would be more effective to stay away from the craziness inside the convention. They actually started to work the way news people do at manufactured news events, by sticking together, sharing information, repeating one anothers best lines. They had figured out what worked and what did not in order to get their messages out from the convention. One of the key bloggers at the conventions was Markos Moulitsas, a lawyer from Berkeley, California who has a particularly liberal blog called Dailykos.com. His success and popularity got him noticed by the Dean campaign and was asked to travel with them for awhile. His popularity has gained him over 350,000 daily readers. He has also been a very successful fundraiser, receiving more than 40,000 in contributions for one democratic Congressional candidate. Moulitsas told the Washington Post that Were all partisan. We dont pretend to be otherwise and would not be constrained by bounds of having to balance out what we write with the other side so much so its a much more direct way to get out the partys message to its constituents and potential constituents. He adds in Klams New York Times article, Im not about to censor myself on any issue. If I care about something, Ill write about it. Its the essence of blogging. It is this essence that makes this new media so influential. It gives people a fresh view on politics and the Democratic process. It is inspiring that people actually have choices and are becoming more engaged in political dialogue. The Internet and the blog phenomenon have made it much easier for people to get new sources of information needed to make sound decisions about issues and political candidates. Blogging provides new venues for lay people outside traditional media to air their thoughts about politics, government, and the civic world and to engage in dialogue with others on issues that matter to them. It has also been an invaluable fundraising and mobilizing tool. It has become apparent that people are beginning to feel heard. It is exciting that technically aware people have a new tool with which to impact the Democratic process. No doubt many people will make use of the Internet in the future to work in politics and campaigns. It is, no doubt, as exciting to note that the Internet provides a tremendous tool for students in high school and college to learn more about the government and to actually become involved in government and politics through the Internet. Opportunities for research abound on the Internet, but so do the opportunities to directly access the offices and operations of members of Congress, the state legislatures, the courts, the executive branch of state government, the federal bureaucracy and the White House itself, to name only a few venues. Certainly, this is the chance for any student, no matter where he or she lives, to be able to contact directly the key decision-makers in their local, state and national government and learn about their operations and activities directly and immediately, without filters, without concerns about time, travel and distance. This is the harbinger of a new type of democracy in America and in the world. Of course, one might argue that in some ways it is a return to the earlier days of democracy where citizens in their local communities could walk to their government offices, take part in local town hall meetings, and actually take part in and learn about their government directly. This is the advantage of the new technologies that are become more apparent in politics today. ENDNOTES PAGE PAGE - 7 - Noah Shachtman, Trippi Net Politics Here to Stay Wired , February 2004, online http// www. Wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,62225,00.html accessed 7 November 2004. Tricia Bishop, Internet finds its niche in politics available from baltimoresun.com http// www.baltimoresun.com/technology/bal-bz.election07,nov07 ,1,435969.story accessed 11 November 2004. Alexis Rice, Campaigns Online The Profound Impact of the Internet, Blogs and E-Technologies In Presidential Political Campaigning, 2004 online available from www.campaignsonline.org accessed November 17, 2004. Ibid Tricia Bishop, Internet finds its niche in politics available from baltimoresun.com http// www.baltimoresun.com/technology/bal-bz.election07,nov07 ,1,435969.story accessed 11 November 2004. Ibid Ibid Noah Shachtman, Trippi Net Politics Here to Stay Wired , February 2004, online http// www. Wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,62225,00.html accessed 7 November 2004. Ibid Ibid Ibid Ibid Micah L. Sifry, Tripping on Internet Populism The Nation, February 16, 2004, online http//www.thenation.com accessed 7 November 2004. Ibid Kathy Kiely, Freewheeling bloggers are rewriting rules of journalism Objectivity Not here and the masses eat it up USA TODAY December 30, 2003, online http//www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/2003- 12-30-blogging-usat_x.htm accessed 11November 2004. Ibid Ibid Ibid Brian Faler, Parties to Allow Bloggers to Cover Conventions for First Time The Washington Post, July 6, 2004 online http//www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A29588-2004Jul5languageprinter accessed 29 November, 2004. Matthew Klam, Fear and Laptops on the Campaign Trail The New York Times, September 26, 2004 online Ibid Ibid Ibid Brian Faler, Parties to Allow Bloggers to Cover Conventions for First Time The Washington Post, July 6, 2004 online http//www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A29588-2004Jul5languageprinter accessed 29 November, 2004. NOTE The endnotes in this paper were done automatically by Microsoft Word. Do a Help search on your version of Microsoft Word on how to do step-by-step endnotes with just a click of a few buttons. MS Word will create the superscript number and the corresponding endnote (where you type in the source information). Write me if you need any help with it. 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