Both Wikipedia and the Obama campaign use forms of participatory media and collective intelligence. Wikipedia needs people to participate and pool together their knowledge in order for the site to continue expanding. Something similar could be said of the Obama campaign. One form of participatory media the Obama campaign used was the debate that was set up similar to a town hall meeting. People were able to ask questions, make comments, and interact with Obama. It was more like a two way street. Instead of Obama just coming on stage and speaking, he was taking time to address their concerns. Another way the Obama campaign used participatory media was his blog. Not only could you read his "presidential campaign diary", but you could connect with others who are pro Obama in your community, donate, read articles and videos from his campaign trail, and comment. The Obama campaign relied heavly on donations from supporters, much like Wikipedia relies on people to continue adding information.
I think it would really help Obama to attain his goal of building a participatory USA if he continued to use the internet as a way to inform people about issues and bills going through his office. This way people can engage with each other through blogging and social networking sites. Maybe some of the responses on those issues and bills would get back to him and he could make a more informed decision on how the American people would react to them.
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I agree, I also think he should continue using Blogging and social networking sites to make the general public aware of new issues/bill's and to use these sites to find out with issues are important to the general public. Also I don't think enough people know about the sites that are already out there for this specific porous and I think during his presidency he should inform the citizen's or someone (not me lol) should that there are web sites out there to voice your opinion/solution about a specific topic.
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