How will the Internet affect politics and elections?

How will the Internet affect politics and elections?

Ethan Feerst and Dylan Stewart (Technology Therapist, Mac Guru) gives expert video advice on: How has the Internet already changed the world since its inception?; How will the Internet affect politics and elections?; Is the Internet a target for global terrorism in the future? and more...

We've already seen how the internet is going to affect politics and elections. We saw it happen most notably with Bill Clinton's election. We've also seen politicians completely destroyed by a single dumb slip of the tongue. One clip from one new channel instead of just being visible on NBC or making the rounds of basic TV channels is suddenly on Youtube and John McCaine making a dumb joke is heard the whole world round fourty times a day. The internet is continuing to change politics with such different things as how your particular candidate has or how their web presence is, do they have a website, can you get their politics and their views on their website, can you get, is their a forum where other people who believe in that candidate can speak about him, can talk about him, how he's advertised, how he gets around and and I've even seen such interesting things as online virtual reality candidates. Certain candidates, such as John Edwards has a complete presence on the internet's video game Second Life, a virtual world, where you can go and talk to a virtual version of John Edwards face to face and ask him questions and he will respond. Least we hope it's him responding. We really have no way of knowing, but the concept is these candidates can have a virtual presence for next to no political expenditure on the internet and get to everyone that wants to who they are and what they believe in.