Votojournalism

Votojournalism is a portmanteau of voter and photojournalism, used to describe photographs taken by the general public of a political campaign. These photographs are then uploaded to an image-sharing website such as Flickr and thereby made accessible to all internet users via direct access or a feed.

The term "votojournalism" was coined by [http://techpresident.com/node/32 TechPresident.com] in February, 2007.

This is a [http://www.flickr.com/slideShow/index.gne?user_id=&set_id=&tags=john+edwards%2C+barack+obama%2C+joe+biden%2C+bill+richardson%2C+john+mccain%2C+rudy+giuliani%2C+hillary+clinton%2C+tom+vilsack%2C+duncan+hunter%2C+ron+paul%2C+mike+huckabee%2C+sam+brownback%2C+dennis+kucinich%2C+chris+dodd%2C+mitt+romney&tag_mode=any&text=%22] of the most recent images uploaded to the Flickr photo-sharing site that are tagged with the name of one of the presidential candidates. You'll find lots of candid shots here, including those of people attending campaign events, along with the presidentials in sometimes unguarded moments. Click on any picture to get more details about it.

We call it "votojournalism" because it is a prime example of voter generated content, photojournalism by the people.

Votojournalism is a feature of voter-generated content and widespread use of web 2.0 technologies by presidential campaigns. In fact, the term may come to mean that in a broader sense rather than the stricter sense of user-generated photjournalism. Other salient examples include the YouTube user-generated content debate, the use of micro-blogging by Barack Obama and the raising of funds using social media.

See also

*User-generated content
*Micro-blogging
*Web 2.0

External links

* [http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=%22presidential+campaign%22 Flickr's] listing of user-generated feeds around the presidential campaign.
* [http://www.youtube.com/debates YouTube's] page on the citizen interrogators.
* [http://www.techpresident.com/ TechPresident.com] is a website charting and explaining the effect of social media on the 2008 US Presidential campaign.
* [http://www.epolitics.com/ e.politics] is a blog around the use of web 2.0 principles and politics.
* [http://twitter.com/BarackObama Barack Obama's microblog] .