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