February 7, 2006
Mobile Politics USA: Stuck in First Gear
An interesting read a while ago from Justin Oberman on Personal Democracy Forum on cellphones as an activism tool and the People for the American Way's offering the option to sign up for "Text Alerts" to help block Samuel Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court.
... Oddly, PFAW hasn't promoted the Mass Immediate Response this time around as a major tool in its efforts to challenge Sam Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court. According to Pusateri "we had a link on the site but no big push for actvists to use it." When asked why the PFAW did not use a tool that seemed to have real value, Pusateri was unsure. "The numbers we received for Mass Immediate Response during the Roberts campaign were good," he admits, "but it still doesn't compare with the numbers we could reach by email and via other forms of online activism.
.. "Unlike the Philippines, South Korea, and parts of Africa and the Middle East, where mobile phones have already taken center stage in numerous political battles, here in the United States mobile politics is still stuck in first gear. Sooner or later, a political group will come along and do with mobile technology the same thing the Dean campaign did with the Internet."
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