TechPresident is a
nonpartisan
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political website founded by
Andrew Rasiej and
Micah Sifry with the idea of tracking how the Internet is impacting
U.S. political campaigns. It was launched on February 12, 2007
to monitor the
United States presidential election of 2008
The 2008 United States presidential election was the 56th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. The Democratic ticket of Barack Obama, the junior senator from Illinois, and Joe Biden, the senior senator from ...
. The site follows how the campaigns are utilizing new Internet-based strategies and how citizens are creating
content, such as
YouTube
YouTube is a global online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the second most ...
videos and
Facebook
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groups, using the
social media
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technologies.
TechPresident is an extension of Personal Democracy Forum, an annual conference and online magazine which focuses on the broader topic of how technology is changing politics and advocacy.
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American political websites
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