Netroots Rising: Different Takes on Online Campaigns

One of our goals when we set out to write a history of the rise of netroots politics from 2002 to 2006 was to document a variety of different perspectives on the phenomenon. Not just the usual cheerleaders of online politics, but also candidates, campaign consultants, and even Republicans.

We're using the book's website as a kind of online appendix to the book where we post complete interviews, sections that didn't make it into the book and other items of interest to readers of the book.

Here are some of the interviews we've posted thus far:




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Some very interesting interviews. I was actually suprised that Allen had a "netroots coordinator"- poor guy!!
I have to agree, though, as a regular citizen that's been reading political blogs since about 2005 (after hearing about Daily Kos on Air America), I'm certainly much more involved than I would have been without the blogs and Act Blue, which makes donating to multiple candidates almost painless. I think I've donated to 10 or 11 different candidates, all outside of my state, since before the 2006 elections. And I'd never donated to any campaign before!
So it does give you a sense of involvement that was never there before, which may account for the huge amounts of money being raised on the internet.
by skohayes on Sun Jul 06, 2008 at 06:56:34 PM EST


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