First POST: Lifestyles
BY Micah L. Sifry | Tuesday, September 30 2014
Google's CEO on "work-life balance"; how CloudFlare just doubled the size of the encrypted web; Dems like Twitter; Reps like Pinterest; and much, much more. Read More
Survey Suggests Young People Unengaged With Politics and Voting, Engaged with Social Media
BY Miranda Neubauer | Tuesday, April 29 2014
New data from Harvard University's Institute of Politics finds new evidence that young people are disenchanted with government and are not enthusiastic about voting in the Midterm elections, though are enthusiastic about spending time on social media, echoing in some respects the findings of a recent Pew survey. Read More
Worries Over Copyright Infringement Kept Warren's Senate Campaign Off Pinterest
BY Sarah Lai Stirland | Tuesday, December 4 2012
Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren's 2012 campaign stayed away from the social image-sharing platform Pinterest because the campaign's new media director feared that the platform could be shut down by copyright infringement ... Read More
The Rise and Fall of Social Media in American Politics (And How it May Rise Again)
BY Micah L. Sifry | Tuesday, November 6 2012
Four years ago for us here techPresident, Election Day was a moment to reflect on the Internet's impact on the campaign, and in particular how so many voters had ventured onto the playing field of politics by using new interactive media, self-publishing tools like blogs and YouTube, and nascent social networks like Facebook. But if you've spent any time reading techPresident this cycle, you've noticed that we've more or less stopped paying close attention to social media metrics. The reason is, they didn't make a difference to the race. The question is why. Read More
Split by SouthWest: My SXSW 2012 Diary
BY Micah L. Sifry | Thursday, March 15 2012
danah boyd and Alex Howard at SXSW 2012 (Photo by Micah L. Sifry)
PDM editorial director Micah L. Sifry spent last Friday through Monday at South by SouthWest Interactive, attending panels, keynotes and hanging out. Here's his report: SXSW is still a place where sessions packed with thousands of attendees cheer for the iconoclasts and the game-changers. It is also much more of a business networking conference than an internet futurists' playpen. In short, it has a split personality. Read More
The Politics of Pinterest
BY Nick Judd and Miranda Neubauer | Wednesday, February 22 2012
On Pinterest, the hot new social network, all politics is visual. The social media darling of the month has been taking off particularly among users with an interest in food or fashion. But with an audience that's reportedly 68 percent female, it's also prime ground for political messaging targeted specifically to female swing voters. Read More
With Pinterest and Twitter, Activists are Out to Punish Komen
BY Nick Judd | Friday, February 3 2012
Susan G. Komen for the Cure's decision Friday to reverse a rules change that would have cut off further funding to Planned Parenthood may not be enough to stem the outpouring of anger against the breast cancer research charity. Komen's grantmaking rules no longer oblige it to issue no new grants to Planned Parenthood, but online activists are hoping to channel continued anger at what they say is the politicization of women's health issues into a sustained campaign. Read More