IDS claims blogging for the right
Iain Duncan Smith today claims that blogging will help the Conservatives come back to power in the UK, drawing on US experience. It's another version of technological determinism, I guess. (The idea that technologies necessarily determine social change, rather than the social use to which technologies are put, and their organisation and regulation, influences the change). There has been a consistent right-wing free-market liberal approach to the liberating effects of new technologies that has driven much political debate on media and new media policy since the early eighties.
Personally, I remain sceptical about the role of blogging in UK politics in the near future: I will be writing more on this over the next couple of weeks, for the political marketing newsletter.
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What's 'the political marketing newsletter'? Link to it? name of it?
It's an academic newsletter. Not sure there's a link - and it's not published yet. Indeed, my article isn't due for two weeks and I haven't written it yet. If there is a link I will publish it in due course, and I will publish the article when written if there is no way of linking to the newsletter.
Sorry about the double post. I'll look forward to reading your view.
Don't you find the left/right metaphor a little constraining at times? Why arrange every single policy and thought on a single 2-dimensional axis? We're far enough away from the French Revolutionary National Assembly to think in slightly more subtle ways.
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Leighton Andrews said...
I think the terms left and right are still valid - they may have originated in the French Revolution but they have been adapted since then and had a meaningful political existence. It may be that the left-right axis also needs balancing by a libertarian/centralist axis, but that's another matter.
Really?
Why is a local income tax as a replacement to council tax politically 'right' of Labour? What animal rights and/or foxhunting - Kate Hooey is suddenly 'rightwing' on that one is she? What about the Iraq war? Right wing, with Bush, or Left/Liberal , with Blair and Hitchens and Ignatieff?
It doesn't assist understanding, Leighton, it's pure tribalism.
It's Hoey, not Hooey.
No, on second thoughts....
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