Bloggers are often touted as influential instigators, feeding buzz-worthy topics to the mainstream media they so disdain, and even guiding discussion in other communication channels. Not so, says a
new study analyzing the impact of political blogs on the national conversation leading up to the 2004 presidential election. Indeed, Buzz, Blogs, and Beyond: The Internet and the National Discourse in
the Fall of 2004 concludes that, while a force to be reckoned with, blogs are merely cogs in the meme machine.
Read the whole story at Personal Democracy Forum, May 15, 2005 »
