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"According to the survey, 86 percent of all college students and 57 percent of non-college students have access to Facebook. Of all 18- to 24-year-olds, 23 percent have used Facebook to promote a candidate or issue." Daily Times Herald - Carroll, Iowa

St. Paul

• Citizen's Guide to St. Paul
• St. Paul - State of the City 2008
• Saint Paulitics
• St. Paul Elections 2007

Republican National Convention

• The Uptake.Org

YouTube

• Hillary Clinton - 1984 Video
• Obama Girl at Personal Democracy Forum
• John McCain on YouTube
  • John McCain Web Ad: Energy Security
  • Dr. No
  • A President Must Be Trustworthy
• Barack Obama on YouTube
  • Michelle Obama on YouTube
  • Hillary Clinton Endorses Obama
  • Barack Obama on Offshore Oil Drilling
• Norm Coleman

• How to Promote Your Videos on Youtube

• RNC 2008 - Republican National Convention 2008
• DNC 2008 - Democratic National Convention 2008

Video Resources

• Video: How the Internet is Changing Politics - (4:47)

Facebook:

• Barack Obama - 1,079,329 Supporters (June 30th, 2008)
• John McCain - 157,824 supporters (June 30th, 2008)
• Arnold Schwarzenegger - 24,373 Supporters (June 30th, 2008)
• Al Franken - 10,147 Supporters (June 30th, 2008)
• Anonymous - 3,547 Supporters (June 30th, 2008) (See Wikipedia article Anonymous (group))
• Tim Pawlenty - 3,147 Supporters (June 30th, 2008)

• Axe Parliaments YouTube ban

Candidate: John McCain

• Pork Invaders
• Action Center

Candidate: Barack Obama

• Campaign Blog
• Foreign Policy Position
• Democracy in America: Live by the social network, die by the social network, "We're paying attention to how politicians are learning to use the Internet. Much more significant in coming years will be how the Internet uses politicians."

Candidate: Paris Hilton

• Paris Hilton Campaign Video

Flickr

• Flickr - Obama
• Flickr - McCain
• RNC
• DNC

Twitter:

• John Edwards
• Barack Obama
• John Culberson
• Twitter Search: John McCain

Commentary:

• Gawker: Bloggers in peril -- focuses particularly on censorship; mentions the Streisand Effect.
• Democracy in America: Political DoS
• NYTimes: Political Freelancers Use Web to Join the Attack
• Wikipedia: E-Democracy
• Wikipedia: Netroots

Internet Movements:

• New Dimensions of Social Movement/Countermovement Interaction: The Case of Scientology and its Internet Critics,an academic paper (which I have not fully read) on the relationship between Scientology and it's online critics; see Wikipedia for an overview of the conflict.
  • Particularly interesting in the context of Internet movements and Scientology is the so-called "Project Chanology", an anti-Scientology protest movement.
• The netroots support for the 2008 Ron Paul campaign is another example of an online movement, in this case one that formed around an individual (real-world) candidate (without being actively encouraged by that candidate).

Other Resources:

• Politics Online

Questions:

• How to contact congressman or other elected officials?
  • MN Legislative Website
  • Ask a Legislative Librarian
• How to access supreme court opinions?
  • FindLaw
  • FindLaw for legal professionals
  • DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA et al. v. HELLER
• Contact: tim@e-democracy.org