New Roles for Established Media?
Channel: MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Date: 2016-04-28

Many have claimed that the Internet and the growth of cable television have fundamentally altered American politics. The 2004 presidential campaign offered a decisive test of this thesis. 

At this October, 2004, MIT Communications Forum, Harvard University Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy director Alex Jones, Boston Globe media writer Mark Jurkowitz, and Project for Excellence in Journalism associate director Amy Mitchell discussed how new technologies enable new forms of fundraising and political activism and the significance of the fact that Fox News, a cable network, drew more viewers of the Republican National Convention than the traditional networks. MIT political science professor Stephen Van Evera moderated.