Politicians are lost deep in cyberspace, struggling to reach a new generation of tech-savvy voters through blogs, social networking sites and video-sharing.
In the United States, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record) used their Web sites to launch their 2008 presidential campaigns.
In France, supporters of the main presidential candidates have clashed over policy in the computer game Second Life, a virtual world that has more than 2 million users. In January, a spat between the far-right and left that featured exploding virtual pigs made a newspaper's front page.
Full story at http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070418/wr_nm/internet_democracy_dc;_ylt=AkCqheRI4ODo5eTMU7oTf5AjtBAF
In the United States, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record) used their Web sites to launch their 2008 presidential campaigns.
In France, supporters of the main presidential candidates have clashed over policy in the computer game Second Life, a virtual world that has more than 2 million users. In January, a spat between the far-right and left that featured exploding virtual pigs made a newspaper's front page.
Full story at http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070418/wr_nm/internet_democracy_dc;_ylt=AkCqheRI4ODo5eTMU7oTf5AjtBAF
