2012, Twitter election?
While Mitt Romney won the Florida primary in the U.S., an article of The New York Times explains the importance of Twitter in the way his team is to influence the debate. We learn that the tweets from journalists are particularly monitored, like all subjects of controversy which might affect the candidate. But Twitter is also used as an offensive weapon to criticize the opponent.
Barack Obama dialogue with citizens on Google +
Imagine five people selected from tens of thousands, calling on the President live from the webcam installed in their living room. This is what happened last Monday when five Americans citizens, who participated in an interview with YouTube and Google+ to discuss his State of the Union Address. For this "first online conversation to happen at the White House in real time -- ever" as called by the White House, more than 227,000 people had taken time to participate -- submitting questions for the President to answer or voting for their favorite.
Francois Hollande flour-bombed also on the web
It is the charm of the Internet: its ultra responsive. It did not take 24 hours for the misadventure of the socialist candidate for president turns into a small video game online. He was victim of a flour attack by a woman just as he prepared to make a speech. The incident had raised a lot of questions about the protection of presidential candidates. This did not prevent an Internet user who is a young right activist to create during the night a little online game very simple: flour a maximum time of Francois Hollande in minimum time. A classic in these little games on the net. To play log onto fh-2012.com.
Internet creates wider venue for political threats
The U.S. Secret Service are on alert, estimating the level of invilité against politicians especially high during an election campaign seen as very aggressive, both within the Republican camp than against President Obama. A police sergeant from Arizona has been removed from patrol and assigned to desk duties pending an internal investigation because he appeared in a photo posted on Facebook with weapons and what appears to be a bullet-riddled image of Barack Obama. According to USA Today, if political incivility is nothing new, the Internet is making more of the venom public, and it has changed the nature of incivility by allowing people to spew insults anonymously that can reach millions of people. That is why the Internet threat desk, set up within the secret services since 2000, pays particular attention to identify, among the bluster, the real threats.
How our neighbors across the Channel perceive the beginning of the French presidential campaign on internet? UKauthority.com, an online publication that specializes in the use of digital tools in the public sector, provides an interesting overview on the subject, partly inspired by Citizen 2.0.
