The Emergence Of Online Political Video
April 1, 2007, 3:20pm
Everyone in the political world is talking about the impact of online video these days — from the “macaca” video that helped toppled former Sen. George Allen of Virginia in 2006 to the recent string of presidential announcement videos and most recently the “Vote Different” attack video against Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y.
But how did we get to this point and what are the techniques being used? The New Politics Institute and PoliticsTV joined forces to explain it all in — you guessed it — an online “video cheat sheet” (also available as separate videos by category):
Categories: Politics, Technology, Presidency 2008
Subscribe to RSS
April 2nd, 2007 at 12:56 am
[…] Pete wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptEveryone in the political world is talking about the impact of online video these days — from the “macaca” video that helped toppled former Sen. George Allen of Virginia in 2006 to the recent string of presidential announcement videos … […]
April 2nd, 2007 at 11:55 pm
Thanks for posting this. I’ve never been a “political” person. But the notion of being able to quickly scan candidate videos on specific topics spoke to me. Since then it has also been more amusing for me to watch every day Americans being able to have a “political voice” creatively through these online videos than network TV. This has become so much a hobby for me I even started a rookie blog about this topic and named it after what Andrew Sullivan and TubeMogul termed as “politubing” (politubing.blogspot.com). If people like me are into it, I think it certainly has gone or is going mainstream…