Aaron at Emvergeoning retells a obscure piece of Punk Rock history and South Texas lore through what he describes as, “collaborative web-based detective work.”
See, San Antonio’s Outrage! or, The Great Rock’N’Roll Poster Swindle.
Last month I posted this piece exploring photojournalist representations of Hillary Clinton. Historiann recently commented;
“This is an interesting analysis of the photography of the campaign, and I agree that the photo at the top (Clinton apart from the 3 men) is highly revealing of the dynamics of the race a month ago, before Edwards and [...]
One of my “hobbies” as it where, is studying and reflecting upon political imagery. This image here reminded me of a photo I saw last June on Michael Shaw’s blog, Bag News Notes.
Shaw has a new piece at American Photo, “Campaign Visuals in the Age of Facebook.” In it, he interviews photographer Stephen [...]
Have you ever wondered how the Iowa Caucus works? John Edwards has released this instructional Youtube video for his Iowa Precinct Captains. I especially like the jazzy theme music reminiscent of an early 70’s TV series. The men have even been reminded to pre-record the Orange Bowl before leaving to caucus. Overall, I think this [...]
Also tagged Internet, Politics, Postmodern Culture, Progressivism (neo)I spend a disproportionate amount of time examining the Democratic candidates online presence than that of the Republicans. There is some built-in prejudice but mainly that’s because the Left is so much more adapt with the new technologies. Furthermore, highly new media literate people vote democratic by some 2 to 1. This is a rough [...]
Also tagged Media and Media Theory, Politics, Postmodern CultureThis should be a gooding starting point for thinking about how we can utilize Facebook within our academic environment. Here’s an earlier article I link to which makes a similar case.
For the upcoming Free Online Conference – Corporate Learning: Trends and Innovations we wanted to have a way for participants to get to know other [...]
I came across this piece in the NY Times by Katharine Seelye, “Women, Politics and the Internet.”
What really caught my attention was the mention of Momocrats, a progressive community blog of online mothers who are pulling their resources to effect political change.
Momocrats was started last month by a group of mothers who are all noted [...]
“A new breed of ‘progressives’ is shifting the party’s center of gravity from the South and Northeast.
This new progressive movement, which now exerts a strong gravitational pull on the direction of Democratic politics, is a national phenomenon, but much of its financing and intellectual energy comes from the West.”
I think Bai is spot on with [...]
Also tagged Politics, Progressivism (neo)Michael Hirschorn argues that, “by bringing order to the Web, Facebook could become as important to us as Google”
At the moment, Facebook is the site that, in my experience, comes closest to fulfilling the promise of social media. In so doing, it raises some bigger questions about how we’re going to be using the Web [...]
“In another sign that the upcoming presidential election is truly the first of the digital age, MTV and MySpace are teaming up to present the first-ever presidential debate to feature real time, one-on-one dialogues between candidates and voters.”
“The first hour-long town-hall style dialogue will take place on September 27 with former Sen. John Edwards in [...]