Why Do People Talk About Politics On The Internet

President Obama not only was the first African American to be elected, but was also the first presidential candidate to effectively use social media as a major campaign strategy. In many ways the election of Barack Obama mimicked that of John F. Kennedy, both having changed politics forever. For John F. Kennedy it was the television and for Obama it was the internet. Barack Obama’s strategy of using the internet as a campaigning tool was a key to his victory in the election. He used the internet to organize his supporters. He had many more friends and followers on his Facebook and Twitter than his opponent John McCain did. The social media landscape looks a lot different now. There has been an increasing number of social media tools now than there were

    In today’s modern time, social media has a huge impact on political environment. How the World Changed Social Media claims, “ Such political activity as there is on social media is usually at a national level and is conducted mainly by supporters…” (Miller 142,143). Social media presents a national level bias. During the last ten years, politics has gained much traction on these sites.  For example, campaigns for national

How presidential candidates present themselves in the media can be proven to impact election results dramatically. Political figure using social media did not start to become more common until after the 2008 election because Twitter and Facebook were just recently created, but by looking at data from the past two elections it shows that the news presidential candidates put on their social media can correlate with how people will decide to vote. After researching what topics political candidates post and how they present themselves in the media with election results it can be established that a candidate’s presence in social media can have an impact on how people might vote in an election. “By 2008 candidate websites were standard and campaigns

In the past ten years the way we as a people communicate has changed greatly. No longer is it uncommon for conversations to not be face to face and now more so than ever conversations take place through text. As with any change there will be and is push back to it. The conflict over the consequences of the social media dependent society have now intensified as a result of social media playing ever greater roles in how politics is seen and even conducted. This has been a major societal question since the presidential election of 2008 and the debate has been written about, discussed, and argued by thousands of different politicians,

This campaign season, I worked for Bruce Davis. Bruce Davis was the Democratic candidate chosen in the primary to run for House of Representatives in the Thirteen District in North Carolina. This campaign season was not a traditional one in comparison to what I’ve studied of past campaign’s. Our world has changed with the creation of social media and campaign’s have changed with it. In our campaign we had to look harder to find a proper strategy for using social media to are advantage and think outside the box. Bruce Davis chose to give his intern’s and his staff free reign to come up with ideas to move our campaign into modern times. These ideas will be discussed throughout this paper. I will discuss my personal experience, which was an

In the article “Did Social Media Ruin Election 2016,” the author, Sam Sanders, makes many valid points about social media, one being that it is not being used for what it was created for. Today, especially these past few months during the controversial election, social media has been used as a place for users to argue with others that do not agree with them. Sanders goes on to make many other points about social media being used destructively, and I agree with the vast majority of them.

However, political communication has experienced a great deal of change within the past ten years. Now, politicians have caught on to using social media in order to connect with younger demographics of voters who are participating in elections and political conversation more than ever. Successfully integrating yourself into pop culture is a political

Barrack Obama’s tenure as President of the United States is coming to a close and voters should understand how to gather reliable information on new candidates, such as Jeb Bush. Even though paying attention to all four major types of media platforms; digital, legacy, a candidates’ own media, and social media, creates a sound informative opinion on Republican Presidential hopeful Jeb Bush, digital media provides voters with the most holistic view. The benefits of digital media, throughout the week of September 15th through the 22nd, created an opportunity to construct a different point of view on Bush and what he stands for.

Although the 2016 presidential election was over one month ago, many people still can’t believe the surprise result. Behind being upset about the result, some populations start to think the role of social media during the election. They aware the power of social media is very strong. But at the same time, only a few of them realize that they live in filter bubbles.

These stereotypes create a negative image of Mexico and its its people as they are represented as “ criminals” and “ drug dealers.” Trump’s use of social media builds the basis that utilizes the variety of multi -platforms of an inaccurate portrayal about who Latinos really are in this country. The journal #TrumpEffects: Creating Rhetorical Spaces For Latinx Political Engagement written by Stephany Slaughter examines how social media has participated in political discussions in the 2016 elections in order to study in context a rhetorical analysis of digital artifacts circulating on Facebook and Twitter in the year following Donald Trump’s candidacy announcements that participates with and engage to Trump’s anti- immigrant rhetoric.

Over the past two years, I have been committed to using social media to make a positive impact, not only locally, but nationally. My current endeavor is the creation of Prime Politics, what was once a Civics project that developed into a Twitter based political news outlet. I have been fortunate enough to grow its monthly readers from 0 to 2.3 Million and create an active community who not only express their opinions, but also are willing to listen, share, and understand opposing views. I created Prime Politics with this vision in mind, my goal was to create an open platform and build a strong community surrounding it. In a time where partisanship is becoming more and more polarized, I wanted to create a platform where everyday people can have

Community media is often depicted as idyllic representing the quant small-town newspaper. In many ways it represents classic Americana similar to the images in a Norman Rockwell painting. These representations, however, do not necessarily include digital communities that form using social media. Instead of communities of place, online communities will often revolve around interests; and some of those interests are far outside the mainstream. This paper seeks to study one specific group that has formed digital communities. It will use agenda melding, selective exposure, and the spiral of silence as its theoretical basis. Specifically the study examines Podblanc, a video site created by Craig Cobb a well-known white supremacist (Southern Poverty Law Center, 2016), designed as Youtube for extremists.

With the recent presidential election, many people have had different opinions about the new president. Throughout the entire campaign, people voiced their opinions about the candidates through talk shows and social media. One example of this would be the talk show Saturday Night Live. The host would bring special celebrity guests on and they would perform skits making fun of the candidates. This was one way that people were able to express their opinions about the campaign. Sharing one’s feelings on politics

In the writing by Briggs (Young People and Political Participation: Teen Players) she notes that “social media are a critical new space for political discourse and engagement, which political institutions cannot afford to neglect” as the younger audiences use social media, and the people they follow as a guide it seemed vital that modern day politics has to infiltrate social media formats. This can be utilised by politicians and their agenda to widen the scope of their message. In the Praeger Handbook of Political Campaigning in the United States, Benoit investigates how successful an organised strategy using new media to win an election can be for political candidates. He states that “the innovative use of new media contributed to President Barack Obama's presidential campaign win in 2008” (Benoit, 2016). Obama's presidential campaign was one of the first to set the standard for political strategy online. The literature talks about the expansion of the internet and how that has provided a suitable platform for political agendas to grow exponentially. With the focus of the research project highlighting the specific use of social media it is important to reflect on the initial stages of online political campaigning, and to understand how Trump has cultivated this style of political

Social media has grown at phenomenal rates over the past decade, with its rise being easily visible in several fields such as publishing, business, and activism, among others. The rise of its use in the field of politics is well known by those who are on and off social media, as a result of increasing number of politicians using this global platform to their maximum advantage.