HW#3 2004 Blog elections

HW#3
My response to “Toward a More Participatory Democracy” from Blog how the newest media revolution is changing politics, business, and culture
I am using the Standard views template for my introduction.
“It is often said that (they say I say, 22), bloggers have had such a dramatic impact on the American political scene over the past two years… (Blog how the newest media revolution is changing politics, business, and culture, 4).” That is what the chapter “Toward a More Participatory Democracy” from A Blog of One’s Own: Women and Authorship in the Digital Revolution is on. How the Blogs effected the elections in the 2004 run for president. They believe that the way Bush used the internet and blogging helped him win because “ three out of four Kerry campaign emails between march and November of 2004 made direct appeals for money, compared with the fewer than one in five Bush emails. In contrast, 78% of Bush campaign emails during the same time period urged people to forward the message to a friend… (Blog how the newest media revolution is changing politics, business, and culture, 20).” So basically they are saying if Kerry had used the internet and Blogs correctly and used them to get his word out and not just try to collect money he could have one the elections. So over all the chapter was on the correct way to use the internet and Blogs to get your message out, because if you don’t use it correctly the word won’t get out as much as it could.
At first I didn’t agree that the internet and Blogging had that much to do with the way the 2004 elections turned out but then I read this paragraph and thought about what it said, and now I know that the internet and the way you use it really does impact the way the word gets out there. Bush just happened to be the one using Blogs along with other media more efficiently.