It’s election day and many people will be looking for information as they make last minute decisions on how, or even if, to cast their vote.
My policy as moderator/owner of the Cybersociology email list has always been to avoid giving members any hints as to my own personal political views. The only exception was when I openly supported the Free B-92 Campaign which, I suppose, was probably viewed as “anti-regime”. I also wrote an article , published in The Independent and Mute Magazine, as well as later in an edited book collection, about how media activists all over Europe pitched in and did their bit to keep B-92 on-air and online during the NATO bombardment.
The internet is becoming increasingly important as a political tool, both for grassroots, issue specific activists as well as the mainstream political parties. No doubt some of us will even get text messages from one or more of those parties today, reminding us to cast our vote.
One of the first entries I made in this blog was about the impact of the internet on the US Presidential and Congressional Elections of 2004 and the various UK election sites that had either been around a while or were launched in the run up to the official election period. If you want to know more, please see The Internet and the UK Elections