My Research Project: New Media's Impact on Politics

As a political science major I thought it would be interesting to look at New Media's impact on politics. The two main areas in politics I will focus on are campaigning and public policy. Campaigning is a tremendously competitive area of politics in which candidates are always looking for an edge. I will first talk about the media's affect on campaigns until now and then analyze the up and coming trend of politicians using new media in their campaigns. Finally, I will attempt to predict the future of new media on campaigns. I will analyze policy from a new media perspective. The idea behind American politics is that we are a democracy, in which the people should have a say about the issues. Politicians have increasingly been using new media to gain public support for their policies as well as defend the policies they have implemented against criticism. While these issues will be the focus of my research I hope to discover other impacts new media has had on politics and include those in my paper as well.