The intersection of politics, journalism, and social media became even more striking over the past few days as student journalist James Karl Buck was arrested along with Mohammed Maree, an Egyptian friend who was helping him report on political unrest in Egypt.
In large part thanks to a Twitter post after his arrest, legions of onliners came to his virtual rescue, contacting the US Embassy and the University of California which quickly dispatched an attorney to Egypt to meet with authorities. Buck was soon on a plane out of Egypt, but his friend Maree’s whereabouts still appear More»

Labels: Egypt, James Karl Buck, journalism, Mohammed Maree, politics, social media, Twitter

Earlier this week Daya Baran discussed the amazing difference in the online advertising strategies of the Clinton and Obama campaigns, with Obama spending one million dollars on Google advertising in February, Clinton a paltry $67,000
Today, Brian Stelter at the New York Times is noting another example of how “tuned in” the Obama campaign appears to be to social media. In the this article Stelter follows the success of a video posted online of an Obama speech that got marginal mainstream coverage, but was a huge online success as it was passed along, linked to, and More»

Labels: barack obama, hilary clinton, Online Advertising, politics, presidential campaign