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Politics over the last 20 years, starts eing in the middle of the 19 90s, up through the 2014 Midterm Election cycle to explain some of the differences between the republican and democratic parties when it came to taking up technology in the service of electoral goals. Host what do you mean by the term, prototype politics. Guest what i wanted to think about and think through where does innovation come from through political campaigning. How do campaigners invent new technologies and new tools. How do they take up new social media platforms to use them for new ways. How do they find new ways to engage the electorate whether on twit other or snapchat. What i wanted to think about reading the sociology literature and Political Science literature and communication literature why is it so important . In the book i talk about how campaigns become prototypes. Which is models for doing things differently in electoral politics and there is a couple of really key examples of that. Probably most
To the park i am there and i am pushing the swing and it is great. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Cspan, created by americas Cable Television companies and brought to you as a Public Service by your cable or satellite provider. Host the book is called prototype politics and the author is professor Daniel Kreiss. What was your goal of the book . Guest my goal was to tell the history of technology in politics over the last 20 years starting in the middle of the 1990s up through the 2014 Midterm Election cycle and really try to explain some of the differences between the republican parties when it came to taking up technology in the service of electoral goals. Host what to you mean by the term prototype politics . Guest i wanted to thing where innovation comes from in political campaigning. How do they take up new platforms and use them in new ways, how to they invent new ways of engaging the electorate whether it is on twitter or snapchat. In reading the Pol
In the community, are you seeing more registration on that end that maybe you as ncla, and the community from those kind of groups and would those increases be happening there . And can you be more specific when you talk about weaker investment . Are we talking how much money dont you have . How much money isnt the Community Getting now that was getting before . How many millions is not there . And is that did that money evaporate or go to other groups and are they in the community . Provocative questions for the end. All right. The Koch Brothers. So, look, its a free world. Right . Folks should be courting the Latino Community itch think theres been investments on that end and libra is trying to educate latino busy a conservative agenda, and thats fine. In terms of how many Voter Registration is theyve done issue dont know because i dont know what their numbers are. But to me, its we are not afraid about having a debate over ideas. Thats fine. And we have had libra at our conference a