The unrepresentative blogosphere
Saturday, 12 November 2005, 01:33
Duncan Stephen makes a very important point: Joe Blogs and Joe Public are very different.
The range of political opinion emerging British blogosphere subculture is emphatically not representative of public opinion in this country: bloggers from left to right have a liberal (or libertarian) streak that leads to a broad oppositional consensus to things like ID cards and 90-day detention without charge.
Not so the British public as a whole, which is much more sympathetic to the more populist and authoritarian view of the Sun and New Labour.
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1. Watching Them, Watching Us | 12 November 2005 at 1308
Why are there so few student political bloggers in the UK ?
There should be hundreds of College or University students who should be writing their own UK political blogs, or at least commenting on them.
Do none of them study politics or journalism anymore ? Are none of them active in their student political societies, of all persuasions ?
These students all have internet access, so where are they all ?
2. Jim | 13 November 2005 at 0030
I’ve often noticed how libertarian the blogosphere is compared, not just to Sun readers, but to the average thinking person too. I suspect that class and status have a lot to do with it (I would guess that most bloggers are relatively high-income), as does the nature of the medium. It would be nice to see some kind of systematic comparison – for example, between results for bloggers and non-bloggers on ‘political compass’ style surveys.
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