http://tags.library.upenn.edu/project/1418 PennTags Feed http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/1418 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/1418 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/2122 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/2122 <p>the detailed differences between a message board and a weblog.</p><p>&nbsp;</p> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/1359 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/1359 This 2002 book is a very good resource to use becuase it is a look at the potential influence of online forums in politics. Primarily dealing with online voting and voter registration, it is a look at the best potential ways to find out information as both a voter or activist. It takes a very detailed look at the use of the internet in the 1996 elections and how this election was somewhat of an experiment to figure out how to best use the internet in politics.<br /> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/1368 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/1368 This website has tons of links to great resources. Both profit and non-profit websites with political blogs are readily available. The information on the website allows for a good starting place to look into the relationship between blogs and politics in American. By seperating the different types of blogs out there, it makes it much easier to scoure the internet for information about blogs and politics.<br /> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/1419 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/1419 This website is the most visited political blog on the internet according to technorati.com.&nbsp; It is run by a law professor at the University of Tennessee.&nbsp; He seems to be a little on the conservative side, but this blog is a great example of the 1) the people who run blogs, 2) the amount of connection between blogs, and 3) how information is dealt out over the blogisphere.&nbsp; <br /> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/1372 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/1372 This article talks about technorati.com, a blog tracker which keeps up on the number of hits and trackbacks a given blog possesses.<br /> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/1421 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/1421 This article in the NY times focuses on the communities that blogs actually can create.&nbsp; The advent of the blogisphere has allowed for the creation of new communties and social networks.&nbsp; This Carnival in Jersey shows that the blogisphere is bring people together who would normally never meet, talk, or know that others like them existed.&nbsp; Applebome's shows that in its early stages, the blogisphere is doing something that no other media or forums have been able to do.&nbsp; Make mass social networks and communities with personal relationships that surpass those created in more traditional venues.<br /> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/1067 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/1067 <p class="MsoNormal">This book is a great resource. It is one of the few books in the library about the emergence of discussion boards on the internet. Davis breaks down both the emergence and the influence of these types of forums upon American democracy and the way these new ways of mass communication influence politics. It's in depth analysis of the way in which blogs played an integral role in disseminating information during the 2004 Presidental election gives deep insight to the ways this medium can help shape a public's political consciousness.</p> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/1360 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/1360 This is the best resource I have found in the library concerning teh use of blogs in American democracy. It is a short read coming in at about 150 pages and gives tons of information about bloggers and their actual participation in politics. Like most political books about stratifying an electorate, it has tons of data. Great resource.<br /> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/1358 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/1358 This page talks about the future of blogs and the new way in which media is going to be transmitted over the internet. It talks about the rise of RSS feeds and how they are overtaking the blogisphere on the internet. The article shows how RSS feeds outnumber almost all other forms of media on the net.<br /> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/1364 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/1364 This recent essay on the importance of blogs in politics is a very informative and compelling work. Denzer's essay has a deep focus upon the origins and the effects of blogs upon the American political structure. It also has a tremendous amount of links that lead to great resources for anyone interested in the internet and American politics. An excellent resource.<br /> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/1068 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/1068 This book is a bit dated, but is an early look at how weblogs have influenced society. It is a compilation of multiple articles and speaks about a varied number of topics. Most of the topics are about culture and the influence of weblogs upon social interaction and public forums. A good resource to use for preliminary stages of looking at internet blogs.<br /> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/1370 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/1370 This book is a compilation of many articles concerning blogs. After tracking down a copy, it seems to have a huge amount of information about the influences of blogs upon American culture. With a variety of articles, culture and politics come up in varying degrees. A great place to find out some more detailed information about the influence of blogs upon the American populace.<br /> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/1367 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/1367 This is a very short article about the influences of blogs upon journalism and users of the internet. it primarily talks about the unresolved issues of open source media without digging very deep into some of the causes for such issues.<br /> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/1362 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/1362 This book is an older version of Davis' later Politics Online. Unlike his later endeavor, <em>Web </em>is a theory based book. It feels as if this book gives Davis' theory for how the internet should work with politics and <em>Politics Online</em> is his research into trying to prove his hypotheses. Still a good earlier work about the potential power of the internet in teh electoral process and delibrative democracy.<br /> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/1420 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/1420 This blog is one of the few blogs devoted to both race and politics.&nbsp; Though there are many blogs out there that talk about these issues, this site is overtly about African Americans and politics.&nbsp; It is interesting becuase it shows how diverse, yet specific blogs can become.&nbsp; Though it is not the only type of blog like this, it is interesting because it allows for an African American opinion over the blogisphere.<br /> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/1366 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/1366 This article is less than a year old and does not have to deal with American politics. However, it is a well written critique and analysis of the influences of political blogs upon a democracy. It gives an international take upon the importance of blogs upon a democratic populace.<br />