Talk:Politics and technology

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Edits for this Article
Here is my bibliography: Here are some possible sources from my bibliography:


 * 1) "Meet the Man With a Radical Plan for Blockchain Voting". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
 * 2) Finley, Klint (2014-05-05). "Out in the Open: An Open Source Website That Gives Voters a Platform to Influence Politicians". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
 * 3) "Colorado Tried a New Way to Vote: Make People Pay—Quadratically". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
 * 4) Heilweil, Rebecca. "Nine Companies That Want To Revolutionize Voting Technology". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
 * 5) "Blockchain, Power and Politics: How Decentralization Engenders Freedom". Cointelegraph. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
 * 6) Ray, Shaan (2019-12-15). "What Is Quadratic Voting?". Medium. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
 * 7) https://economics.rice.edu/sites/g/files/bxs876/f/Weyl%20(paper)%20-%20Feb%202017.pdf

Currently, there are some online tools listed for online presentation, but their descriptions are rather short and don't give a good view on what exactly they do. I would like to start there and flesh out the descriptions for these tools. I'd also like to add some more tools that we learned about in class like Democracy.Earth and how blockchain has affected our current voting beliefs. I would love to add a whole new section on blockchain voting and quadratic voting, as this is a new system that is becoming increasingly more popular as an idea. Technology has grown to impact almost all parts of our day to day lives, with the rise of IoT devices, and I'd love to explore how this growth has impacted politics as well. Although our current internal government is still rather technologically inefficient, there are many external developments with the rise of multiple platforms with high amounts of funding backing them looking to make a large impact soon. All this combined with the era of COVID-19 makes it extremely interesting, as now government functions are almost forced to be reliant on technology, as in-person traditional methods just won't cut it. With this new demand for civic tech, I imagine there will be many interesting developments to talk about recently, such as PopVox being currently vetted to be used in Congress. Brandonqin (talk) 19:38, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

Sources to include
A lot could go here. I found: Deku-shrub (talk) 17:31, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
 * http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/23/politics-technology-save-world-david-runciman
 * http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregsatell/2014/02/01/the-inevitable-collision-of-technology-and-politics/
 * http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/05/27/change-the-world

Links Added, More Coming Soon
Hello, I am a new Wikipedia Fellow. I just added a few relevant links to this page, but I plan to add more substantial content in the coming weeks. --JaredMWr (talk) 21:27, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

Possible Edits for the Article
Here are some sources that I found that are relevant to this article. Please let me know what you think of them.


 * 1) "Technology, Innovation and Politics led by Sonal Shah". The Institute of Politics at Harvard University. Retrieved 2019-10-02.[1]
 * 2) Armstrong, Paul. "How Technology Is Really Going To Change Politics In The Next 20 Years". Forbes. Retrieved 2019-10-02.[2]
 * 3) McKinney, Sarah. "The Future Of Political Engagement Is Here (And It's Called POPVOX)". Forbes. Retrieved 2019-10-02.[3]
 * 4) "Colorado Tried a New Way to Vote: Make People Pay—Quadratically". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2019-10-02.[4]
 * 5) Stevens, Matt (2019-10-01). "Zuckerberg Hates Warren's Plan to Break Up Facebook. She Doesn't Care". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-10-02.[5]
 * 6) Newhauser, Daniel (2019-06-13). "This 27-Year-Old Wants To Lead A Progressive Rebellion to Take Down Nancy Pelosi". Vice. Retrieved 2019-10-02.[6]

I believe it is necessary to include more information about the different kinds of voting offered through technology, such as Quadratic voting, and also speak about the different political apps that we analyzed in class, such as PopVox, CloakRoom, or Councilmatic. Technology has grown (whether we like it or not) to play an integral role in politics, whether that is through voting, campaigning, or just basic awareness, and I believe that this article in particular should be edited to be a stronger article to reflect those rapid changes. Congress was unable to keep up with a lot of the technological advancements of current day, which lead to the Facebook case that was seen everywhere on national news. There is constant threat of misinformation spreading in the political sphere. Blockchain technology is slowly rising to play a bigger and bigger role in keeping information secure and decentralizing information in politics. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mervitan (talk • contribs) 06:41, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Hello, I will be working on this article for my Spring 2020 class!
Hi, my name is Lex. I will be working on this article and found some points to help contribute to this article.


 * Please let me know if anything should be added, removed, or improved.*

How can the article be improved?

Give examples of how politics has changed as a result of incorporating technology, hacking risks, politics on social media, politics on twitter, political apps, voting, representation, etc.

Lex.cinema (talk) 01:31, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

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