Social Software - Politics and Journalism

Politics and Journalism

Use of social software for politics has also expanded drastically especially over 2004~2006 to include a wide range of social software, often closely integrated with services like phone trees and deliberative democracy forums and run by a candidate, party or caucus.

Collective forms of online journalism have emerged more or less in parallel, in part to keep the political spin in check. The open politics theory emerged to counter the hype of the "open source politics" claims being made by very many politicians.