CAS HI 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Harvard Law Review, Real Change, Warp Drive
5 May 2019
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Social media and the ideal of direct democracy - the greater citizen participation we have in politics, the healthier and stronger our democracy will me. Politics means bringing people out of isolation and into a community. Democracy can provide outlets - the expression of personal grievance, aspiration, organize opposing views. A brief history of social media and the presidency - social media has allowed people to bypass the mass media, many liberal theorists have imagined social media will allow. Americans to play a larger role in shaping policy. a. ) In 1994 the clinton administration launched the clinton. gov domain and began to use email, encouraged americans to actually send emails to the president. b. ) Barack obama the social media president - won the support as the editor of the. Harvard law review from liberal and black students. 2004 as a fresh faced alternative to the washington status-quo.
