“Welcome to the future. Most of us newly-active Bajan voters are young and idealistic… and we are online”: Barbados Free Press [1] is not impressed that blogs and new media are not being given their due in influencing the outcome of the Barbados election, adding: “The old Barbados news media can pretend that nothing changed…DLP spokesperson Reudon Eversley can pretend that he never emailed campaign materials and position papers to the blogs, but he did so because he knew the blogs mattered during the election.”
Barbados: Blogs and the Elections
· Written by Janine Mendes-Franco
Categories: Caribbean, Barbados, Digital Activism, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Media & Journalism, Politics, Technology, Youth