1. Evolving Landscape of
American Politics with
Technology
Mr. Johnny King, Alabama A&M University
Dr. Maurice Dawson, Alabama A&M University

2. Agenda
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Background
Relationship
Technological Advances
Internet Media
YouTube

3. Relationship
• Tech innovations
played a big role in the
election successes of
the Democratic Party
in 2008.
• Text messaging
(Obama selecting
Biden), social media,
blogs, e-mail and
internet Videos were
all heavily used.

4. Technological Advances
• In the 2008 presidential election, more than $5.3 billion was
spent on the campaign as a whole.
• 41.1% ($630.8 million) was classified as Media and
Technology.

5. Internet Media

6. YouTube

7. Reddit Traffic to Barack Obama

8. Visualization of Voting Data

9. Any Questions
Please direct them to maurice.dawson@aamu.edu or jking17@bulldogs.aamu.edu