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Twitter and Politics:
Revolutionizing DemocracyMIS 40650 Changing Work Practices ICT
Cathal OSullivan, Una OBrien and Brendan Lyng
2nd April 2012
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1996 Candidates websites
1998 Email
2000 Online Fundraising
2004 Blogs
2008 Social Media
Internets Influence on Politics
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Can a tweet change thepolitical landscape?
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Building a grassroots network
Social media workshops
Green Party (Set guidelines not rules so as not to kill thespontaneity)
eClinics
Pew Internet and Amarican Life Project- Smith
Integration of social media with wider communicationstrategy
Election Campaigns
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Editorial Control over your message
Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark
Two way communication and engagement
Dvorak (2008) -Broadcasting
Governance
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Was it really a Twitter Revolution?
Awoke the international community
Arab Spring
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Internet enabler of participatory democracy?
Kent and Taylor (1998)
The Web provides public relations practitioners the
opportunity to create dynamic and lasting relationships
with publics, however, to do so requires that dialogic
loops be incorporated into Web pages Social media Mass communication of the self
(Castells, 2009)
Has it changed the discourse?
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Evgeny Morozov (2011)
Nave expectation that the Internet will empoweroppressed peoples and advance democracy
Social media as a propaganda tool
Belarus, Iran, Russia
Slacktivism (Vitak et al, 2011) Online political participation that has little real world
impact
Its not all good
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Building Dialogic Relationships through the World Wide Web (Kent& Taylor, 1998) How activist organisations are using the Internet to build
relationships (Taylor et al., 2001) Communication Power (Castells, 2009) Technologys role in revolution: Internet freedom and political
oppression (Morozov, 2011) Its complicated: Facebook Users Political Participation in the 2008
Election (Vitak et al, 2011) The Rise of the Internet Electorate (LA Times, 2012)
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/18/nation/la-na-social-media-20110418
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