Political Communication & New Media

This article touches on some of the concerns and fears that Baym discussed in his article, about the internet and child predators.

Several are interested in the Trayvon Martin coverage, and in general, you should know that Pew comes out with these reports about who is paying attention to particular stories in the news every week so they might have something on your topic. 

Article from The Nation profiling, Gregory Shvedov, a 35 year old Russian Journalist committed to independent journalism in Russia. Using New media, the article addresses the dangers and need for such a man in Russia right now.

Shows how new media like Twitter, as well as traditional news media, have been used to express both outrage at the murder, as well as express political opinions. Also touches on some ideological bias in the media, per what Wolfsfeld discusses in Ch. 3.

Search customization - just a few details about our ever-changing filter bubble 

25 minute video featuring a discussion of Clicktivism aka Slactivism that we mentioned in class as part of the discussion of the Morozov video and the new media skeptic perspective in general. (This is posted in case you are interested in some aspect of this topic, not required!).

Interesting Video and article involving Facebook statistics and the reach it has with over 500 million users. It's quick and very informative on the power of Facebook.

Research by Gilad Lotan about how the Kony 2012 campaign spread via Twitter and how it was different from past political campaigns.

This is the author of the book from which the video we watched for today's class was taken

One example of the intersection between the privacy concerns around digital media and politics is surveillance policy, the subject of this article.

Audio for part 2

Internet history and impact: the audio version has more content, so don't just watch the video.

If you're interested in what's going on 'behind the scenes' on Wikipedia