Blog 18: Introduction and question for reseach paper

Introduction

                With the turn of the century and technology being more and more of a need, there are many utilizations of it. From the times you had to be stationary to use the internet, now we can go anywhere with our phones or tablets and do anything virtually possible over the internet with our technology. From days where we had to use house phones or mail to keep in touch with friends and family, we now have social networking through the internet that keeps in contact with these same people no matter where they go. Now in this day and age, the possibilities are limitless with our technology and one can only wonder how does it influence certain aspects of our society.

A main aspect that is being researched for this paper is technology and its influence in the political perspective. With social networking being a powerhouse and different organizations can advertise their items, this opens many opportunities for many people to get their word across. With this being said one could say opportunities can be opened up for politicians who want a seat in office. It is evident that politicians know how social networking is impacting society and the many things it could do to help ones future in this line of business. Campaign strategies over the years have been based online by building web-sites and even making pages on different sites like Facebook and Twitter. With millions of people online everyday, it is a good strategy to put themselves into the traffic and make themselves known. With all this, we must not forget that in these millions of users there are a percentage of them that are voters.

            With moments happening in political history during the technology era; there has seen a lot of political topics brought up over the internet, but more importantly social networking sites. Advertisements along with pages made by a campaign team for a specific political figure could be seen all over famous sites while also receiving a lot of likes or followers. Political persons even made Facebook or Twitter sites, making statuses and also gaining attention as well. Pages like these receive more of the same during election races as campaigning can be seen from the time it starts to the time it is over and a candidate has been chosen to run his office.

Question:

            So a question has been raised that has motivated my research-is the social networking sites helping candidates get more influences of votes since it does have a lot of traffic throughout each site? If campaigning on sites does not influence votes in any way; does it individually affect society in some manner? I decided to research this because of how influential social networking sites may have on people by giving people views, likes, or took them to stardom. With the subliminal power that these sites have in society at this time, to wonder how this affects society on a political scale would not be considered a hypothetical falsie.

This is as far as i got with my paper.