Slides from a presentation at the Modern Language Association Annual Meeting in 2008. More info on this panel can be found at

1. Political Microdiscource David Parry Assistant Professor of Emerging Media and Communications University of Texas at Dallas MLA 2008

2. Political Blogging: A really, really, short history.

6. Political Tweeting: An even shorter history.

7. Twitter is the telegraph of Narcissus. -Nicholas Carr

9. What’s so Political about Twitter?

12. Hyperconnected