Comments on: LonelyGirl ’08 and Collective Identity Formation and Political Campaigns

By: GOPOLI » Political Blog Post Roundup

GOPOLI » Political Blog Post Roundup — Thu, 03 May 2007 21:20:57 +0000

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By: Aldon Hynes

Aldon Hynes — Wed, 02 May 2007 15:23:57 +0000

Tom,

Your right about that. However, it is worth noting that Joe set up the site back in 2004 when Obama was a less well-known person.

More importantly, I suspect there are a lot of other things that we could or should be learning from this.

By: Tom J

Tom J — Wed, 02 May 2007 15:20:46 +0000

So what have we learned? That MySpace shouldn’t allow anyone to publish a profile using a well-known person’s name. Joe could have called his profile ‘barackobamafan’ or he could have started a group instead of a profile. What he did was misleading, disclaimer or not, intended or not.

By: Orient Lodge

Orient Lodge — Wed, 02 May 2007 13:25:39 +0000

MIT5: LonelyGirl ’08 and Collective Identity Formation and Political Campaigns…

One of the papers that I found particularly interesting at the Media in Transition conference, was The You in YouTube: The Emergence of Collective Identity Formation Through Online Video Sharing. It explorer the role of the community in forming the id…