December 3, 2007
Smile, You’re on YouTube
Richard Nixon learned the hard way how new technology can change an election. How will YouTube affect 2008’s politics? [via The Washington Post]
"The 2008 presidential election is a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon. For the first time since 1952, there is no president or vice president running for reelection. Beyond that, the 2008 campaign will be the first in a new era of American politics—the first where technology is both the medium and the message.
... In 2000, much of the world was on dial-up connections. By the beginning of 2007, nearly 90 percent of Americans reported using broadband to access the Internet and more than one of three Americans was using the Web wirelessly. The technology that over the last decade has transformed the global economy is transforming the campaign process as well, so that this race will be run as much on the World Wide Web as in town squares and on television.
Thanks to technology, the 2008 campaign will be unlike any other."
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