Political blogs: community or chaos? (Polis summer school paper – guest blog)

It is a question as old as new media itself. Does the blogosphere improve political debate by increasing the number and volume of voices? In this paper written in a personal capacity for the Polis Summer School, Patricia Audette-Longo, the political affairs reporter for the Edmonton Journal, looks at the effect of political blogs on democratic discourse in Alberta, Canada. By Patricia Audette-Longo.