Election 2006 Online
Twice as many Americans used the internet as their primary source of news about the 2006 campaign compared with the most recent mid-term election in 2002.
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Twice as many Americans used the internet as their primary source of news about the 2006 campaign compared with the most recent mid-term election in 2002.
On a typical day in August, 26 million Americans were using the internet for news or information about politics and the upcoming mid-term elections.
Are we entering an era of “user-generated” online content? We may not quite be there. But if you look at how young people with high-speed connections interface with the news, the phrase “news consumers” doesn’t capture what these people do when th…
Got bandwidth at home? Like politics? If you answer ‘yes’ to these questions, and you’re young, the internet shaped what you learned about the presidential election.
This presentation summarizes data from the report: “Cable and Internet Loom Large in Fragmented Political News Universe” and was done in conjunction with the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
Email has become an increasingly popular and potent tool for political communication in America.
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