4. What is political blogging to you? What are the first words you think of when you hear political blog? Political Blog freedom of speech Right wing Left wing power elections impact war debate
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8. Class Discussion Does political Blogging have an impact? Who is being targeted with these blogs? (educated people non educated, what age group) Does it influence peoples mind set? Does it make people feel more in touch with having a real say on issues? Can you give me examples of how this could work for or against an issue or politician?
Political blogging – focuses not on reporting political news but on discussing the implications of current political events, building on the information understood as already having been established understanding of blogging as a discursive activity that complements mainstream journalistic coverage rather than replacing it all together. Bloggers respond to the commentary no to the news releases of original political sources but to the reporting of such news in the mainstream media, this also means that the view provided by Australian political bloggers may therefore be commentary on the news medias coverage of politics as they are commentary on political events themselves.
First example is Australia / press releases and political statements
Just think about all the new ways of public communication and how it has change over the past 20 years. We went from having no internet to having our lives and the world around us connected it to it in some way. Who uses facebook or political blogs to voice their everyday or political opinions? That’s what social blogging is all about, being able to voice the opinion that you might not have been able to, cause of demographics and social power.
Show the video for 3 min. Just to give people an Idea of what it means to be a political blogger in a non democratic country.
People participating in these blogs have often already set their minds Educated and aware of the issues Is it all a make belief ?
The rest of Europe has not shown a significant amount of interest. People are still