While Wisconsin went from democrat to republican this week, I'm going from republican to democrat. For the first half of this project I focused my observations on two audiences within the online conservative republican political activists community: www.redstate.com and www.MyScottSpot.com. For the rest of the semester I'm going to observe two political activist communities for liberal democrats.
Looking back. I should have joined Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett's online community of democrats as he campaigned for Governor because that would've been the logical thing to compare and contrast with Scott Walker's community.
But, because I didn't think of that until writing this post just now (WOW), I went a different route. Currently I'm observing the political activists on www.treehugger.com. Through their forums, "interactive tab" and opportunities to get involved I'm already seeing some stark differences between how liberals and conservatives use the Internet.
One thing I've noticed early on, is that this community does a really good job of paralleling its online activity with real-world action whereas the conservative community, www.redstate.com, was really just a forum to write and complain.
I will continue observing Tree Huggerl however, I need to start observing another community here in Wisconsin for consistency. Does anyone know of a good online political activist community for liberal democrats in Wisconsin?
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