Photoshop for Democracy - Super Tuesday Coverage

In Wednesday’s article “Photoshop for Democracy,” Jenkins tells us that we are experiencing a new convergence culture in that corporate media and new media are merging. He makes the argument that we are in a “transition where the political role of the Internet is expanding without diminishing the power of broadcast media.” By this statement, he is saying that the Internet is beginning to play more of a role in politics. However, this does not mean that the power of broadcast media politics is declining. Rather, they are “converging” in a way of reaching a wider demographic of people.

An example of this is seen in one of my favorite blogs: TV Squad.

http://www.tvsquad.com/2008/02/06/20-random-thoughts-about-super-tuesday-coverage/

TV squad is a blog that has stories about television shows, events on television and real world information about the television business/industry. The blog post above demonstrates the increasing role of politics on the Internet in that people are blogging about politics in general.  In this post we can read reactions to network election coverage.   Reading this we can also conclude that people who continue to watch broadcast political coverage like to blog and comment about it on the Internet. This blog post can serve as information to network election coverage watchers in offering opinions on which broadcast station to watch.  Avid readers of this blog may also read this post and decide to check out the coverage on television.  In conclusion, this blog post relates to Jenkins' idea because there has been an increase in political talk on blogs while also the people blogging continue to watch broadcast political coverage on television.