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Point. Click. Decide. Vote. |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--BRAVE NEW CYBERWORLD |
| Author: Ari Bass |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1998 |
| Size: 2,014 Words, 12,948 Characters |
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The Web mil become a favored place for candidates to influence opinion leaders and the news media.
During campaign 2000, the World Wide Web will directly influence three groups: voters who have computer access at home, work, or school; journalists who cover the campaign with their laptops; and candidates who have staff experts working on their modem-equipped computers.
Cyberpolitics will move at a faster pace than in 1996 and will be more issue-oriented, taking advantage of the Web's capability to handle the instant addition or deletion of facts and opinions. Computer-sawy voters—definitely not all voters—will change. When these cybervoters turn to the growing number of political Web sites, they will find information and analysis, not just images.
They will be joined by an increas...
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...Kennedy back in the White House.
Candidates can also reach cyber-aware voters through other Internet connections, such as mass E-mail, discussion lists, and chat lines, going to where the computer-literate political junkies are.
Check it out now. Double click on a Web browser. Head for a collection of political Weblinks such as WhiteHouse 2000. Point and click. Campaign 2000 has started.
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