Netroots Rising How Citizen Army Bloggers Online Activists is Cha… 9780313346606

Netroots RisingHow a Citizen Army of Bloggers and Online Activists Is Changing American Politics\nAuthor(s): Lowell Feld, Nate Wilcox\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Praeger Publishers Inc\nISBN-13: 9780313346606, 978-0313346606\nSynopsis\nThe 2006 elections will be remembered as the year when the center of power in American politics shifted from traditional top-down central broadcasters to new bottom-up decentralized activists in the blogosphere and netroots. The authors give firsthand accounts of the burgeoning power of the netroots to determine the outcome of political contests, most notably as when the national balance of power was tipped by Jim Webb's rag-tag army of bloggers and netroots activists. They assess the prospects for Netroots [url] whether the netroots hordes will crash the party or work out an uneasy cohabitation with the traditional party power elite.\n\nThe 2006 elections will be remembered as the year when the cent.