“August 2011 recalls harbinger of social media role in close elections”
This item appears at the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel‘s “All Politics Blog.”
Category Archives: social media and social protests
“Tweeting the Next Election Meltdown: If the next presidential election goes into overtime, heaven help us. It’s gonna get ugly.”
Slate has excerpted part of my new book. Here’s how the excerpt begins:
This article is excerpted from Richard L. Hasen’s book, The Voting Wars: From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown.
The tweets were full of rage.… Continue reading
“Statistical Probability That Mitt Romney’s New Twitter Followers Are Just Normal Users: 0%”
The Atlantic reports.
“Campaigns mine online data to target voters”
AP: Voters who click on President Barack Obama’s campaign website are likely to start seeing display ads promoting his re-election bid on their Facebook pages and other sites they visit. Voters searching Google for information about Mitt Romney may… Continue reading
“Don’t Tweet Your Ballot”
Unless you want to face felony charges in Wisconsin.
“Justice bars analyst from Mississippi cases after Facebook post calling state ‘disgusting'”
FOX News: “The Justice Department has blocked one of its civil rights analysts from dealing with all matters Mississippi after the employee apparently described the state as ‘disgusting and shameful’ on Facebook — comments that drew a rebuke Tuesday… Continue reading
“Twitter plays outsize role in 2012 campaign”
AP: “Four years ago, Twitter was in relative infancy and just 1.8 million tweets were sent on Election Day 2008. Now, Twitter gets that many approximately every eight minutes.”
I discuss the role that Twitter and other social media… Continue reading
Web Makes Regulating Politics Tough in Mexico
“Twitter Becomes Real Time Tool for Campaigns”
WaPo reports.
“World French Twitter Users Outsmart Election Law With Cheese, Flan References”
Time: “Dutch cheese, Hungarian wine, rotten tomato and flan were just a few buzzwords thrown around in the French Twitter community on Sunday, when users wittily tweeted in code to skirt a French law prohibiting voting predictions in the… Continue reading
“A Lie Races Across Twitter Before the Truth Can Boot Up”
Anatomy of a tweeted rumor about Gov. Nikki Haley.
“Trutanich paid for YouTube views of D.A. campaign videos”
LA Times: “An unlikely Internet sensation has struck it big on YouTube: Los Angeles City Atty. Carmen Trutanich. Two polished videos promoting his run for district attorney last month show Trutanich driving the gritty streets of Los Angeles telling war… Continue reading
“Vote 4 Me!! The political consultants who want to send you unsolicited text messages, and the man who is fighting to stop them.”
Sasha Issenberg has this Slate column.
“Super PACs v. Social Media”
Maria Teresa Kumar has written this Politico oped.“Come November, we may see a new kind of generational divide emerge in the electorate. Massive media campaigns driven by hundreds of millions of super PAC dollars may indeed overwhelm older ‘offline’… Continue reading