I want to thank people how responded to my comments about 'Hope is Presidential'.
Matthew Bernius, who is a Visiting Professor at Rochester Insitute of Technology and a 'New Media Researcher' had an interesting response. http://www.waking-dream.com/blog/?p=117 online discussion of my youtube/political posts, online fieldwork implications, and other sundry things in which he says: >>> Aldon mentions Ask a Ninja, Hope is Emo, and Lonelygirl15 as YouTube exemplars. Im not quite sure what the candidates can learn from these content creators, as they all are essentially old media examples in the new media space. All of these are professionally produced (read as scripted, acted, filmed, and edited by professionals). >>> Describing Ask a Ninja, Hope is Emo, and Lonelygirl15 (with a possible exception of Lonelygirl15), as "essentially 'old media' examples in the new media space" kind of jumped out at me. I wrote more about it at http://www.orient-lodge.com/node/2145 "What is authenticity in this digital space?" I would love to hear other peoples thoughts on the subject. Aldon
