Profile: Cheris
Stallings-Carpenter
Cheris A. Stallings-Carpenter received a Bachelor’s of Science in Telecommunications at the University of Florida in 2001 and a Masters of Information Studies at Florida State University in 2006. She is a PhD student at Walden University specializing in Public Health. Her past scholarly publications include a white paper entitled, “Making Web 2.0 Accessibility Mainstream and a research paper entitled, Digital Dystopia: Overcoming Digital Deprivation in the United States which is in press at the Journal Information for Social Change. She is employed as a professional Reference and Technical Services librarian at a public library in Lake City, Florida. Ms. Stallings- Carpenter currently resides in Gainesville, Florida.
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Presentation Date:
4/17/2009
Paper Title:
The Obamachine:
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Techno-politics 2.0
Abstract:
The proliferation of online campaign content has brought an end to an era of broadcast media dominance over US national politics and has resulted in the drastic reconstruction of the traditional fundraising machinations of American politics. Since the mid-1990s, there have been growing discussions on Internet activism and how new media has impacted participatory democracy and social justice in the United States. The increased usage of the Internet in political campaigning has also impacted some of the foundational ways that politics has historically been conducted in the United States. This paper analyzes a framework posited by Andrew Chadwick which conceptualizes the ways in e-democracy is transformative for political engagement. Further, this paper argues that during the 2008 Presidential campaign president- elect Barack Obama attained unprecedented success through the utilization of the internet as a primary vehicle for his political campaign. Obama’s innovative approaches to US politicking have led to one of the most transformative eras in US political history and catapulted him to an overwhelming victory for President of the United States.
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