This week I am deviating from the required topic. There are a number of reasons for my decision. For the most part I found a different topic this week that intrigued me more than joining an organization or club.As everyone in the country and world knows our country held elections this week. It was an historic moment for this country. We elected a black man to the office of President of the United States, something I think should have been done a long time ago. I especially like it when one of the commentators on election night held up a chart of all the past American presidents, a chart many of us have seen in elementary classrooms and commented that it will no longer be a chart of only white men.
However, there were other historic contributions occurring this year in this election and this is what caught my attention. The following excerpts from an article titled "Essay: Obama's transcendence is beyond race" written by Ron Fournier, an Associated Press writer stated: "Consider this: There were just a few hundred Web sites when Clinton took office and virtually no blogs when Bush entered the White House in January 2001....Obama, of course, raised millions of dollars via the internet. He tried to announce his selection of Joe Biden as his running mate with a text message. One of his favorite platforms, YouTube, did not exist when Bush began his second term. ...When Obama needs help on Capitol Hill, the world's largest lobbying shop -- millions of supporters strong -- is a mass e-mail away. His campaign Web site, a virtual community, could evolve into the 21st century version of a political headquarters -- the place you go to help the party or ask it to help you."
Some of the technology that President-Elect Obama used in his campaign I have just started to use. Some I am still working on trying to figure out. I have heard so many women my age, who are not in the field of IT, say "It's my husband's computer" or "My kids know more than I do." If any of us, whether we are in school or not want to stay on top of world events and be a part of our society we all need to become comfortable with technology. This also means that people of all ages need to begin to realize that we still have a population out there that is not comfortable with certain facets of the computer. Yes, this campaign was a victory for technology use. But it was also a wake-up call. Who is being left out as we move into this new era of technology in politics?
However, there were other historic contributions occurring this year in this election and this is what caught my attention. The following excerpts from an article titled "Essay: Obama's transcendence is beyond race" written by Ron Fournier, an Associated Press writer stated: "Consider this: There were just a few hundred Web sites when Clinton took office and virtually no blogs when Bush entered the White House in January 2001....Obama, of course, raised millions of dollars via the internet. He tried to announce his selection of Joe Biden as his running mate with a text message. One of his favorite platforms, YouTube, did not exist when Bush began his second term. ...When Obama needs help on Capitol Hill, the world's largest lobbying shop -- millions of supporters strong -- is a mass e-mail away. His campaign Web site, a virtual community, could evolve into the 21st century version of a political headquarters -- the place you go to help the party or ask it to help you."
Some of the technology that President-Elect Obama used in his campaign I have just started to use. Some I am still working on trying to figure out. I have heard so many women my age, who are not in the field of IT, say "It's my husband's computer" or "My kids know more than I do." If any of us, whether we are in school or not want to stay on top of world events and be a part of our society we all need to become comfortable with technology. This also means that people of all ages need to begin to realize that we still have a population out there that is not comfortable with certain facets of the computer. Yes, this campaign was a victory for technology use. But it was also a wake-up call. Who is being left out as we move into this new era of technology in politics?
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