Mobile Media in 21st Century Politics
Mobile Media in 21st Century Politics
URL = http://www.newpolitics.net/reports/media/mobile-media/NPI-Mobile-Media-Report.pdf
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From http://www.mobileactive.org/mobile_media_21st_Century
The New Politics Institute has just put out a white paper on Mobile Media in 21st Century Politics. The white-paper was prepared by Tim Chambers and Rob Sebastian of the Media 50 Group, a new player on the mobile political field and one whose founders, like Politxt, comes from a plethora of mobile experience in the entertainment space. The report is filled with great examples from around the world, many of which have been featured here at MobileActive. Here is what Peter Leyden, Director of the New Politics Institute, has to say:
That small screen on your phone is beginning to take its place alongside the personal computer and television as an important way to connect to Americans. The development of mobile media is not going to take place in the distant future. As this report points out, mobile media has already proven to have big political impacts in other countries, and it played a key role in the immigration demonstrations all over the United States this spring. Now is the time for progressive political practitioners to start to engage this new technology and media. The report ends with seven concrete steps to begin mastering this new world. Much is already happening, but much more is to come.
The mobile phone has evolved from simply a voice communicator to a hub for mobile media. That small screen on your phone is beginning to take its place alongside the personal computer and television as an important way to connect to Americans. Each of these screens has unique capabilities that can be used in politics. Mobile phone media, unlike media channeled through TV and PCs, allow people to connect anytime, anywhere. Today 80 percent of voting age Americans have mobile phones and an increasing number are becoming savvy at using them to create and consume media."
(http://www.mobileactive.org/mobile_media_21st_Century)
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