September 25, 2008

How the Internet Affects the Elections

By Alison Tierney
I found this article on the Harvard website and found it fascinating.
It closely examines the effects of the Internet on the 2004 election. What they didn’t approach though, was the idea that the Internet is still relatively new. Since the Internet began in the 1990s, it is important to realize that it is [...]

September 25, 2008

A television advancement or crisis?

By Denise Tran
Coming February 17, 2009, your television may stop working. Television stations that broadcast in analog will no longer work. There will be a switch from analog to digital broadcast television called the digital TV (DTV) transition. Analog TV’s technology has been used by U.S. television broadcasts since the 1940s. And digital TV [...]