Social Politics

By Tony Whittingham

Social media has changed politics forever. This book examines the use of social media in politics and demonstrates how you can take both an active and passive role in social politics. The book illustrates how you can use social media to add your voice to the issues that are important to you and to connect with important decision-makers that might otherwise be out of your reach. The book examines global developments in social media and provides a history of social politics. A range of social media services and tools are described with guidelines to enable you to participate in social politics and contribute to your local political environment.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tony Whittingham
• Release date: Mar 8, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301315826

Tony Whittingham

Tony is an educational technology consultant. Prior to his ‘retirement’ Tony was NSW TAFE’s Director of Technology and Arts and Media Educational Services. He was the founding CEO for the Federal Government’s Co-operative Multimedia Centre and the Manager of the State Government’s Water Conservation Commission’s Photogrammetry Division. He has taught at college and university levels for more than 30 years and received national awards from the Australian Institute of Training and Development (AITD), in addition to the Computer World Fellows award for ’Outstanding Contributions To Computing In Australia’.

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Social Politics

By Tony Whittingham

Copyright 2013 by Tony Whittingham

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CONTENTS

Introduction To Social Politics

Global Social Politics

Australian Social Politics

Social Media and Social Politics

A Brief History Of Social Media

Social Politics Enabling Technologies

The Hardware Revolution

The Software Revolution

The Telecommunications Revolution

Future Enabling Technologies

Tools For Social Politics

Cloud Services

Social Network Services

Blog Services

Video, Photo and Audio Sharing Services

Social Politics Monitoring Services

Google Alerts

Flipboard

Google Reader

How to Participate in Social Politics

Passive Participant Options

Active Participant Options

Introduction to Social Politics

Social Politics is an expression used to describe the use of social media in politics. The 2008 U.S. presidential election came to be known as the social media election as a result of the Democrats use