Communicator-in-Chief (eBook, ePUB)

How Barack Obama Used New Media Technology to Win the White House
Redaktion: Hendricks, John Allen; Denton Jr., Robert E.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Communicator-in-Chief: How Barack Obama Used New Media Technology to Win the White House examines the fascinating and precedent-setting role new media technologies and the Internet played in the 2008 presidential campaign that allowed for the historic election of the nation's first African American president. It was the first presidential campaign in which the Internet, the electorate, and political campaign strategies for the White House successfully converged to propel a candidate to the highest elected office in the nation. The contributors to this volume masterfully demonstrate how the Internet is to President Barack Obama what television was to President John Kennedy, thus making Obama a truly twenty-first century communicator and politician. Furthermore, Communicator-in-Chief argues that Obama's 2008 campaign strategies established a model that all future campaigns must follow to achieve any measure of success. The Barack Obama campaign team astutely discovered how to communicate and motivate not only the general electorate but also the technology-addicted Millennial Generation - a generational voting block that will be a juggernaut in future elections.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739141076
• Artikelnr.: 38226045

Autorenporträt

Edited by John Allen Hendricks and Robert E. Denton Jr. - Contributions by Jody C Baumgartner; Jenn Burleson Mackay; Jonathan S. Morris; Eric E. Otenyo; Larry Powell; Melissa M. Smith; Nancy Snow; Frederic I. Solop and Brandon C. Waite

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Political Campaigns and Communicating with the Electorate in the
21st Century Chapter 2 : Gadgets, Gismos, and the Web 2.0 Election Chapter
3 : RT @BarackObama We just made history: Twitter and the 2008 Presidential
Election Chapter 4 : Who Wants to Be My Friend? Obama, Youth, and Social
Networks in the 2008 Campaign Chapter 5 : My Fellow Blogging Americans:
Weblogs and the Race for the White House Chapter 6 : Obama and Obama Girl:
YouTube, Viral Videos and the 2008 Presidential Campaign Chapter 7: Email
and Electoral Fortunes: Obama's Campaign Internet Insurgency Chapter 8:
Game ON: Video Games and Obama's race to the White House Chapter 9:
Political Campaigns in the 21st Century: Implications of New Media
Technology