{"id":1813,"date":"2005-09-30T06:37:04","date_gmt":"2005-09-30T06:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1813"},"modified":"2005-09-30T06:37:04","modified_gmt":"2005-09-30T06:37:04","slug":"the_power_and_p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1813","title":{"rendered":"The Power and Politics of Blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Drezner and Henry Farrell (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.utsc.utoronto.ca\/~farrell\/blogpaperfinal.pdf\">PDF<\/a>):<Blockquote><i>Weblogs occupy an increasingly important place in American politics. Their influence presents a puzzle: given the disparity in resources and organization vis-\u00e0-vis other actors, how can a collection of decentralized, nonprofit, contrarian, and discordant websites exercise any influence over political and policy outputs? This paper answers that question by focusing on two important aspects of the \u201cblogosphere\u201d: the distribution of readers across the array of blogs, and the interactions between significant blogs and traditional media outlets. Under specific circumstances \u2013 when key weblogs focus on a new or neglected issue \u2013 blogs can socially construct an agenda or interpretive frame that acts as a focal point for mainstream media, shaping and constraining the larger political debate.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masternewmedia.org\/news\/2005\/09\/30\/the_political_power_of_blogs.htm\">Robin Good<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Drezner and Henry Farrell (PDF):Weblogs occupy an increasingly important place in American politics. Their influence presents a puzzle: given the disparity in resources and organization vis-\u00e0-vis other actors, how can a collection of decentralized, nonprofit, contrarian, and discordant websites exercise any influence over political and policy outputs? This paper answers that question by focusing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}