http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/11/08/a-couple-of-post-election-thoughts/ Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:40:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/11/08/a-couple-of-post-election-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-687 Looking across the pond: A viewpoint on developments arising from the US Senate and House elections 2006 at Irish Election Sun, 19 Nov 2006 22:49:03 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/11/08/a-couple-of-post-election-thoughts/#comment-687 [...] Dan Gillmor penned an article `A couple of post election thoughts‘ and discussed his view on political advertising: More than ever, campaigns used the Net to communicate with the faithful and especially to raise money. They did so eagerly and successfully in many cases, having seen how well the technique worked in the 2004 elections. But they were less eager to use technology to reach out to the already unconvinced, it seems to me. By far the bulk of political advertising remained in the traditional media, for example. I also suspect, however, that the poisonous spewing of lies, deceptions and other garbage may have reached a point of diminishing returns. (One hopes that people are studying this in a scientific way.) If so, look for the politicians to move a lot more of their advertising to the Net in the next cycle. [...] [...] Dan Gillmor penned an article `A couple of post election thoughts‘ and discussed his view on political advertising: More than ever, campaigns used the Net to communicate with the faithful and especially to raise money. They did so eagerly and successfully in many cases, having seen how well the technique worked in the 2004 elections. But they were less eager to use technology to reach out to the already unconvinced, it seems to me. By far the bulk of political advertising remained in the traditional media, for example. I also suspect, however, that the poisonous spewing of lies, deceptions and other garbage may have reached a point of diminishing returns. (One hopes that people are studying this in a scientific way.) If so, look for the politicians to move a lot more of their advertising to the Net in the next cycle. [...]

]]> http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/11/08/a-couple-of-post-election-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-686 Politics ain’t blogging « Media SITREP Mon, 13 Nov 2006 02:34:47 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/11/08/a-couple-of-post-election-thoughts/#comment-686 [...] Dan Gillmor makes a key point, follow the money: Campaigns used the Net to communicate with the faithful and especially to raise money…But they were less eager to use technology to reach out to the already unconvinced, it seems to me. By far the bulk of political advertising remained in the traditional media, for example. [...] [...] Dan Gillmor makes a key point, follow the money: Campaigns used the Net to communicate with the faithful and especially to raise money…But they were less eager to use technology to reach out to the already unconvinced, it seems to me. By far the bulk of political advertising remained in the traditional media, for example. [...]

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