NYC conference explores tech impact on political communication

NYC conference explores tech impact on political communication — Newsday.com

(The Conference is callled the Personal Democracy Forum, and details can be found at: http://www.personaldemocracy.com/). Also, see my proposal for the history of non-parliamentary political communication).

By BETH FOUHY
AP Political Writer

May 15, 2006, 5:45 PM EDT

NEW YORK — Technological innovation, from blogs to podcasting to the expansion of broadband Internet access, has forever changed the nature of American political communication, participants in a political technology conference agreed Monday.

At the Google Inc.-sponsored Personal Democracy Forum, an annual conference exploring the intersection of technology and politics, participants exchanged ideas on marshaling the power of the Internet to boost citizen participation in politics. But the well-wired group was also warned that the bells and whistles of technology are no substitute for human interaction.