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Abstract

“We are the nation that put cars in driveways and computers in offices; the nation of Edison and the Wright brothers; of Google and Facebook.” In 2008, Barack Obama ushered in a new Internet era in politics. With over 13 million addresses in his e-mail list, 400,000 blog posts, 130,000 Twitter followers, and 5 million supporters on Facebook, Obama successfully raised half a billion dollars online for his 2008 presidential campaign.

We are the nation that put cars in driveways and computers in offices; the nation of Edison and the Wright brothers; of Google and Facebook.

—President Barack Obama

(2011 State of the Union Address)

In the face of everything else that’s screwed up in Washington, we the American people can fix things.

—Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian (May 2012)

If there is an Internet connection, my camera is more powerful [than my AK-47].

—Syrian dissident Abu Ghassan (June 2012)

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