News Flash: Blogers Like a Technologically Savy Candidate
As we discussed in class, the political world of the Internet is overwhelmingly left. That was according to a Pew report on the Internet usage and campaigns. You can see this trend in the Personal Democracy Forum reports we were asked to watch this week. As I watched each first person video report, I noticed that a majority of the speakers were heavily involved in technology including one of the inventors of the Internet who now works for Google.
Vint Cerf “the father of the Internet,” talks about how far we have come technologically and how this needs to be interpreted and utilized in governance. In fact a majority of the voices were all discussing the same thing. Hmmm wonder why? (my bloggy sarcasm is becoming thick lately)
I wonder if you had a gun owners forum to discuss candidates what they would say? Thoughts?
On this point I started thinking about the McCain incident this past week. Is John McCain aware of the Internet? I mean really he is quite old according to this Obama spokesman in the video of the exchange.
The interesting thing is the Senator is not that much older than Mr. Cerf “father of the Internet” him self.
My question is has technology and it’s use become a symbolic form of liberalism just as the single issue of the second amendment has become associated with conservatism?
I think the answer is Yes. Progression and liberal politics have always been associated together, just as tradition and conservatism. As party lines and single issues have blurred labels of party affiliation over the past several decades this one school of thought remains the same. And maybe, just maybe this is a good thing. In a world so confusing that no one knows exactly what they are fighting for some form of values that bind a group of people together at the most basic level might help to form a clear message in a complex world. I am just glad someone is aware of the Internet.
