Tag Archives: obama

We The People: A Direct Line To The White House?

Floris Spronk | 14 September 2011, 12:01 am | 2 comments | tags: , , , , ,

The White House recently announced the development of a new platform: We The People. Obama is quoted in the introduction explaining why: “I pledged to make government more open and accountable to its citizens. That’s what the new We the People feature on WhiteHouse.gov is all about”. It is an appealing project in several ways, and especially for a New Media…

Kanye West on Twitter: promotion and PR

Erik van Bemmelen | 11 September 2010, 1:57 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

A couple of weeks ago, producer and rapper Kanye West joined Twitter. Although this fact alone is not all too remarkable, as Kanye West has been a fervent blogger for some years now, he has found remarkable ways to put this medium to use. On the one hand, he uses it as a way to distribute and promote his…

Political Framing on the Web?

Han Rusman | 19 October 2009, 9:32 am | tags: , , , , , ,

USC professor Manuel Castells’ new book Communication Power theorized how the media is the place where power is decided at large (especially in democratic countries). According to Castells political framing is one of the major weapons in the political process.

In his third chapter Networks of Mind and Power, Castells summarized about political framing with the…

Social Finance and Crowdfunding

Han Rusman | 30 September 2009, 9:47 pm | tags: , , , ,

Participatory web projects offer a broad spectrum of opportunities. Banking 2.0 is “a way for people to lend and borrow directly with each other online[…]”. You can own a small piece of a footballclub at myfootballclub.co.uk. “You are invited to join members from over 80 countries who own Ebbsfleet United and vote on…

I tweet you this: “Obama wins, but …”

Minke Kampman | 06 November 2008, 2:05 am | tags: , ,

The silence on this blog was just because we were holding our breath the last couple of days. We are a new media blog and not a political one. But we cannot let this pass without mentioning. Now Obama has prevailed he has lots of work to do. (YouTube video: “What the Next President Inherits”)