One of the most notorious religious protesting groups, the Westboro Baptist Church, has done many things that people have thought of to be insane and extremely unnecessary. At first, they were being recognized through paper articles but over time as they became more notorious and news spread, television began covering their protests and ridiculous stories. Shirley Phelps, the wife of the leader of the church was even on fox news to talk about these things, and that of course turned into an argument. But the point here is, that digital imagery and technology are enabling this group to reach across the nation so people can hear them, whether it is good or bad, it is the technology that is giving these people publicity, and we all know that any publicity is good publicity.
See the video for an example.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=b3PyoUPcobA
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Politics Going Digital
It's easy to say that "now more than ever" politics will be affected by television, or any other aspect of society, but it is true. This year, the candidates have take video exposure to new levels by appearing in debates on mySpace, YouTube and other websites of the same category. So not only will digital imaging technology affect this years campaigns, but even the future campaigns exponentially more. It seems like the only logical step left for the candidates to take in order to reach the modern generation of students and the likes.
Not saying it's a bad thing, what they're doing, but it certainly is shifting away from the norm of things of how elections and campaigns have been administrated in the past, but like I said it's the only logical step left. Our generation is very much concerned about the future of our technology because that is what we operate on. Without digital imaging, and the tools to harness it we would not be in the situation were in. So seeing how certain candidates handle themselves in regards to this technology and how they decide to use it will surely have an impact, maybe slight but impact non-theless, on how our generation votes this year.
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/francis/pages/politics-and-tv-talk-converge-in-2008.aspx
Not saying it's a bad thing, what they're doing, but it certainly is shifting away from the norm of things of how elections and campaigns have been administrated in the past, but like I said it's the only logical step left. Our generation is very much concerned about the future of our technology because that is what we operate on. Without digital imaging, and the tools to harness it we would not be in the situation were in. So seeing how certain candidates handle themselves in regards to this technology and how they decide to use it will surely have an impact, maybe slight but impact non-theless, on how our generation votes this year.
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/francis/pages/politics-and-tv-talk-converge-in-2008.aspx
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