1. Why do the Democratic leaders embrace blogging as a potential political communication considering the traditional media landscape in politics?
- Blogging is a cheaper, faster, and interactive media platform used by Democrats to get their political campaign underway. Anyone, even the younger demographics are reached by using this approach. Democrats have realized that this is a way to receive donations, participate in live chats, have citizen involvement, and many more. Democrats want to get everybody on board with their campaign by utilizing blog sites.
2. Blogging encourages a participatory culture. In what way does the participatory culture in blogging expand digital media convergence?
- Participatory culture is encouraged by blogging because everybody has access to make comments and posts regarding what they see and hear in the media. This expands digital media convergence because anyone can post comments, videos, and graphics reflecting their beliefs.
3. In the article, the author says: "The ability of the Internet to erase geographical distances can become a structural weakness in elections where district lines and eligibility are key." How can blogging counter this weakness in the process of turning the netroots to grassroots?
4. The author spends the second half of the article discussing the lack of diversity in current blogosphere dominated by elite bloggers. Please use the concept of digital convergence to explain how blogs can become the real bearer of freedom, democracy, egalitarianism, and participation in the new media communication?
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