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PoliticsMatters: an independent monitoring project on US presidential 
elections.
Looking for collaborations


PoliticsMatters is a collective blog launching October 5th on PoliticaOnline.it

The approaching US elections seem to promise a new push for political 
attention and participation as an affirmative answer to a polarized 
ideological battle. Not only because of its worldwide effects and high 
stakes, but also due to a resurgence of grassroots activism using new 
collaborative technologies.

It is therefore important to monitor these elections not only in their 
general aspects of campaign and news media coverage, but particularly to 
explore the different layers of "latent" communication working at the 
intersection of politics, technology, culture, business and International 
strategies.

Mostly aimed at the Italian public, our monitoring project 
("PoliticsMatters") will provide daily analysis, commentaries and reports 
by researchers from the Social and Political Sciences fields as well as by 
journalists, bloggers and citizens. Our team will take a close look at 
media outlets and other sources worldwide, while also exchanging stories 
with similar web-projects.

With its open-end and cross-discipline approach, "PoliticsMatters" aims to 
go beyond the (often misleading) breaking news and reports of Big Media, in 
order to build a collective 'blog-lab' as a new tool for expressing and 
debating today's political culture issues.

PoliticsMatters: Starting October 5th at 
<http://www.politicaonline.it/politicsmatters>http://www.politicaonline.it/politicsmatters

More info & contacts: <mailto:info at politicaonline.it>info at politicaonline.it