I posted this because I have one technology/sociology question: now that campaigns are heavily using social media and the web, will previous versions of policy be used against them?
It used to be politics was mostly verbal -- the guy on the television made some promises and then later "refined" them. Now that we're moving into more of a written format, does versioning matter?
I take this a little like FaceBook or MySpace -- what seems the best thing to do at one moment might not look the same later. But the problem is: once you post it, it's there forever, blocking future job applications, etc.
So do politicians get the same deal as the rest of us? Could/should these things enter into the public discourse?
(Here's hoping that I've cut most of the politics out)
It used to be politics was mostly verbal -- the guy on the television made some promises and then later "refined" them. Now that we're moving into more of a written format, does versioning matter?
I take this a little like FaceBook or MySpace -- what seems the best thing to do at one moment might not look the same later. But the problem is: once you post it, it's there forever, blocking future job applications, etc.
So do politicians get the same deal as the rest of us? Could/should these things enter into the public discourse?
(Here's hoping that I've cut most of the politics out)