When Phil de Vellis, creator of the “Hillary 1984” mashup video, wrote that “the game has changed,” he summed up in four words the virtually earth-shaking revolution that is now changing the nature of the political campaign. Candidates in the 2008 presidential election face a landscape unlike any other in political history, and it’s all because of Web 2.0. In this new political world, voters are demanding a higher degree of participation in the process, and the technologies are there to make it possible.
Campaign 2.0, Part 1: ‘Hillary 1984’ Is Just the Beginning
Posted by: Katherine Noyes April 4, 2007 04:00 AMWhen Phil de Vellis, creator of the “Hillary 1984” mashup video, wrote that “the game has changed,” he summed up in four words the virtually earth-shaking revolution that is now changing the nature of the political campaign. Candidates in the 2008 presidential election face a landscape unlike any other in political history, and it’s all because of Web 2.0. In this new political world, voters are demanding a higher degree of participation in the process, and the technologies are there to make it possible.