Election 2.0: How did the internet shape the general election?

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Election 2.0: How did the internet shape the general election?

By Mark Pack | Tue 22nd June 2010 - 1:20 pm

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The Yoosk website recently put together a panel of bloggers to answer questions about the impact of the internet, and social media in particular, on British politics. Alongside Iain Dale, Alex Smith and James Evans I answered a range of questions:

Was the UK 2010 general election an internet election?

Which bloggers or Twitterers made the biggest contribution to UK 2010 election?

Will Twitter have a serious effect on elections?

Then there were two questions that were specifically asked of just myself (see the Yoosk site for those asked specifically of others):

Is there too much discussion about getting people involved in politics via the internet and not enough discussion about getting people who don’t have access to the internet involved?

Do you think open data will have serious consequences for election campaigning, either nationally or locally? More so than social media perhaps?

Read more by Mark Pack or more about alex smith, iain dale, james evans or yoosk.
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3 Comments

Keith Halstead 22nd Jun '10 - 1:45pm

Mark mentions that he answered questions alongside Iain Dale, but unfortunately, we at Yoosk have not been able to contact Iain and arrange to record his answers. We are grateful to Mark, Alex and James though for taking the time to share their thoughts on this topic with us.
James Blessing 23rd Jun '10 - 10:53am

The internet part of the election was the speed of the feedback loop with the opinion of the TV debates being collected quickly and then delivered out to the audience. I think digital election is a good description.

(one of the videos has been deleted)
Mark Pack 24th Jun '10 - 12:17am

James: thanks for pointing that out. I’ve updated the post with a new link that works