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Political blogs have grown astronomically in the last half-decade. In just one month in 2005, for example, popular blog DailyKos received more unique visitors than the population of Iowa and New Hampshire combined. But how much political impact do bloggers really have?
In Blogwars, David D. Perlmutter examines this rapidly burgeoning phenomenon, exploring the degree to which blogs influence--or fail to influence--American political life. Challenging the hype, Perlmutter points out that blogs are not that powerful by traditional political measures: while bloggers can offer cogent and convincing arguments and bring before their readers information not readily available elsewhere, they have no financial, moral, social, or cultural leverage to compel readers to engage in any particular political behavior. Indeed, blogs have scored mixed results in their past political crusades. But in the end, Perlmutter argues that blogs, in their wide dissemination of information and opinions, actually serve to improve democracy and enrich political culture. He highlights a number of the particularly noteworthy blogs from the specialty to the superblog-including popular sites such as Daily Kos, The Huffington Post, Powerlineblog, Instapundit, and Talking Points Memo--and shows how blogs are becoming part of the tool kit of political professionals, from presidential candidates to advertising consultants. While the political future may be uncertain, it will not be unblogged.
For many Internet users, blogs are the news and editorial sites of record, replacing traditional newspapers, magazines, and television news programs. Blogwars offers the first full examination of this new and controversial force on America's political landscape.

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0195305574
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Oxford University Press
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March 7, 2008
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9.5 x 1.2 x 6.5 inches
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"Would blogs really matter that much, and if so would they alter the American political system for the better or worse? David Perlmutter, a professor of journalism at the University of Kansas, has plunged into cyberspace as both a researcher and blogger to look for answers...For readers unfamiliar with the political-blogging terrain, his book serves as a worthy introduction."--The Boston Globe"David Perlmutter 'gets' the blogosphere in a way that few outside observers do, going beyond the tired arguments about whether bloggers are damaging the civil debate by their partisanship and volume, about whether nonprofessional journalists and pundits should have a say in that debate, and about whether the phenomenon is just a flash in the pan. Perlmutter recognizes what these new media-blogs, YouTube, social networking sites-bring to the table: a reinvigoration of the public side of the public debate, a real and profound demonstration of the political process."--Joan McCarter (mcjoan), Contributing Editor, DailyKos"Perlmutter's Blogwars is an impressive primer on the politics and political implications of the blogs and the blogosphere."--Kathleen Jamieson, University of Pennsylvania"David D. Perlmutter seizes lasting truths from the phantasmagorical whirl created by ever-new communication technologies. Blogwars makes a lasting contribution to our understanding of politics and the Internet, while establishing Perlmutter as a pioneer and important voice in modern political communication scholarship."--Steven Livingston, George Washington University"An experienced blogger himself, David Perlmutter has without question written the most comprehensive book to date on blogs in American politics. This volume is essential for anyone who wants to understand the history and impact of blogs, as well as the critical role bloggers have played and will play in the electoral campaigns, and a must-read for anyone interested in politics in general."--Robert E. Denton, Virginia Tech"Books on blogs by bloggers vastly overstate their case and overpromote their cause. David Perlmutter, however, puts blogs in the proper perspective, giving an insightful and highly useful account of how blogs actually are changing American politics as a new tool in a growing arsenal of weapons for political operatives and pundits."--Erick-Woods Erickson, Editor, RedState.com"David Perlmutter brings the analytical bent of a scholar on the phenomenon of blogging. As a lover of news as well as the new, he also brings a fan's passion to the subject. I am most grateful for both the scholarly perspective and the fan's passion."-Scott. W. Johnson, powerlineblog.com

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The first critical account of the impact of political blogs, illuminating the role these new Internet sites play in our culture

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; 1st edition (March 7, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0195305574
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0195305579
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.25 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.5 x 1.2 x 6.5 inches

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DAVID D. PERLMUTTER is a professor at the William Allen White School of Journalism & Mass Communications, University of Kansas. He received his BA and MA from the University of Pennsylvania and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He has served as a Board member of the American Association of Political Consultants and now sits on the National Law Enforcement Museum Advisory Committee for its Media Exhibit. A documentary photographer, he is the author or editor of seven books on political communication and persuasion: Photojournalism and Foreign Policy: Framing Icons of Outrage in International Crises (Praeger, 1998); Visions of War: Picturing Warfare from the Stone Age to the Cyberage (St. Martin's, 1999); (ed.) The Manship Guide to Political Communication (LSU Press, 1999); Policing the Media: Street Cops and Public Perceptions of Law Enforcement (Sage, 2000); Picturing China in the American Press: The Visual Portrayal of Sino-American Relations in Time Magazine, 1949-1973 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007); (ed., with John Hamilton) From Pigeons to News Portals: Foreign Reporting and the Challenge of New Technology (LSU Press, 2007), and Blogwars: The New Political Battleground (Oxford, 2008). He has also written several dozen research articles for academic journals as well as over 150 essays for U.S. and international newspapers and magazines. He writes a regular column, "P&T Confidential," for the Chronicle of Higher Education. He has been interviewed by most major news networks and newspapers, from the New York Times to CNN and ABC and most recently, The Daily Show. He is editor of the blog of the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas (http://www.doleinstituteblog.org/) and has a personal blog about blogging (http://policybyblog.squarespace.com/)

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If you are not a blogger this is news

Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2009

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I have written on the internet for years. This is a good and accurate look at the blog world. The book is not partizant and does not favor any political side. As a blogger I found the book so what. But I did see what I write as a hobby this book accuralty reflects what you can expect to get into when you share your opinions. It is a rough and tuble world out there.

It is a mean place the blog world and it takes a great deal of time.

Perllmuter also goes into the history cause and effect of different events and campaigns that involved blogs. He also ties blogs to past forms of comunication back to depictions of the Battle Keddish.

If you blog you will find this booring but it is a great world if you are not fimilliar with blogging. The book goes into how bloggers got both Dan Rather and Trent Lott when they steped out o f bounds. The blogs have power. It is no one individual but how stories take a life of their own. Not that all internet traffic is spontainious much of it is contrived by some proment opinion holders.

Still if it is a good book if you are interested in politics or comunication. I would say that Blog Wars is a good first start to look at define and explain the political blogging universe.

Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2008

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Perlmutter has written an eye-opening book about blogging. While focused on political blogging, many of the insights translate more generally, including the way talent is uncovered, how first-person reporting can occur, and how diligent experts can track down the truth better than the mainstream media. Overall, Perlmutter's a level-headed guide, very articulate and thoughtful. A worthwhile read!

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BaylessKtol

If Blogs had been around in the 1930s

Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2008

In 1934 Columbia University social scientist Theodore Abel persuaded the German government to carry out this project among the German people: Abel offered cash prizes for the essays that best expressed how and why the Nationalist Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) achieved such rapid growth and popularity. Abel published the 'winning essays' and a less-than methodologically perfect analysis in 1938, under the title, Why Hitler Came into Power . Apparently aware of his methodological limitations, Abel resisted making unwarranted generalizations, but did prise open a chink in the prevailing belief that

"the NSDAP was essentially a lower-middle-class movement supported by elements of the undereducated, economically marginal ...petty bourgeoisie desperately afraid of proletarianization during a period of acute economic distress and social dislocation".... to whom National Socialism was " "the psychological reaction of the lower middle class" to the political traumas of the postwar era and the loss of its economic position and social status."

Abel, and subsequent analysts of the essays he collected, realized that the appeal of NSDAP ranged across all classes of German society; something more than economic dislocation was taking place: German people, rich, poor, and in between felt their values were being undermined; they joined NSDAP as a way to reclaim their national identity.

Of the blogs Perlmutter discusses in Blog Wars. , the most familiar is DailyKos, presumably a wide open forum for advocacy of all things that tend to support the Democratic party. But like Abel's research, a closer look reveals serious stresses and maybe even an "enemy within" DailyKos's open forum. Specifically, censorship has been wrested from the generous hands of Markos Moulitsas, founder of DailyKos, who reminds bloggers to whom he offers a free forum to express their thoughts that DailyKos is his private property, and if he "decides that entries must be written in iambic pentameter," posters either comply or find another forum. Moulitsas holds the reins very loosely; not so some self-appointed vigilantes on the DailyKos forum, who have anointed themselves the lords and ladies of correctness on DailyKos.

But what is more interesting than the evolution of a group of self-appointed censors who are NOT Moulitsas but who co-opt his ownership privileges, is that the greatest sin one can commit on a forum dedicated to upholding American, Constitutional, and Democratic principles, is to fail to pay proper obeisance to Israel. Posters on DailyKos who, in the opinion of these vigilantes pay too much attention to Iran or refer too frequently to books such as The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy or Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States , for example, find themselves banned from the site. Kossacks who criticize neocons, zionism, or Israeli oppression of Palestinian Arabs can, and often do, find themselves in the middle of a hornet's nest of ardently pro-Israel "TUs" -- Trusted Users -- who use privileges given them by longevity on the forum to silence many voices that challenge the necessity of America's unconditional support for Israel, pinned to the wall with the all-purpose label, antisemite. For example, Kossacks who challenge the validity of polls that are submitted as evidence that "Americans overwhelmingly support Israel" are banned, as are forum members who question why it is essential that an American support Israel.

On the other hand, no endorsement of Israeli actions that might be harmful to American interests or contrary to American values is ever questioned. For example, a diarist who wrote,

"Having been barmitzvahed on top of Masada, being fluent reading Hebrew, having gone to Hebrew school for 10 years, having toured Israel,...I know a little bit about Judaism. ... From these roots ...comes a toughness, no nonsense streak that many may find illiberal....a streak that says that if you F**k with Jewish people for no reason and you are an anti-Semite, you are going to get F**ked back at least 5 times as hard. It's the mentality of Never break someone's finger but if they break one of yours, you break 5 of theirs. If a terrorist kills 1 civilian, you go kill 100 terrorists."

Those are not American values. One commenter challenged the diarist on that statement. The commenter was banned, but the diarist making the less-than-American statement received nearly 40 'tips.'

Christianity is also fair game on DailyKos, and the trollhunters who ensure Jewish and Israeli correctness on DKos are not only out to lunch when Christianity is denigrated, as it is routinely, they use openly anti-Christian statements as their final fillip when banning.

What does the existence of an Israeli-correctness posse on DailyKos have to do with Theodore Abel's collection of essays from Germans in 1933? Just this: when patriotic citizens of a nation who worked hard to develop their own identity and values find those values hijacked by groups who not only do not share them but try to destroy them, those citizens get mad, and they find a way to recalibrate their identity and values.

Abel's essays, and blogs, are ways to express and to discover the mood of the people. Censoring the voices who express a discontented mood makes as much sense as telling a cut finger to stop bleeding.

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J. DeSimone

An excellent read

Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2008

Prior to reading the book, I was pretty ignorant to the world of Blogging. As one who does not read political Blogs, I was mainly confused about why people do Blog and why others read them. Those answers, and then some, were answered by this book.

Perlmutter starts out explaining what a Blog is, which is easy to understand to the non tech-savvy individual. However, the book does not insult one's intelligence at all. It moves along quickly with fascinating facts and humorous bits that make the book a joy to read.

The introspective book is an excellent jump-on point for the non-Blogger and Blogger alike. It's fun, informative and just plain enjoyable.

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Nathan Rodriguez

The Most Comprehensive Book on Blogging to Date

Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2008

Perlmutter offers an entertaining and insightful review of the history of blogging (pre-internet to its current form), and peppers his analysis with information gleaned from interviews with the most important bloggers today.

This is a particularly well-written book: inviting enough for those new to the blogosphere, yet penetrating enough to satisfy those more well-versed with the phenomenon.

Great read.

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