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The popularity of social media has surfaced in the the Australian Federal election with Kevin Rudd creating a MySpace account. John Howard folllowed suit soon after appearing on YouTube. In the USA candidate Barack Obama has over 161,000 supporters on MySpace and an interesting part of the election focuses on the importance social media. This is discussed in the article "Will the 2008 USA election be won on Facebook?" which can checked out at this address: http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/05/01/election.facebook/
Social media - It's time to get involved!
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Haha its hilarious seeing John Howard's myspace - he actually doesn't have one himself - rather the Howard gov't..However, the howard gov't only has 9 friends, whereas Kevin Rudd has 10,347 friends!!
Courtney, interesting observations; especially that the PM has used YouTube to push the ADF agenda (another form of political advertising), whereas Kevvie is using the technology to build a personal following. What does that say about the generation gap?
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