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Astroturfing
A community portal about Astroturfing with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: In politics and advertising, the term astroturfing describes formal public relations campaigns which seek to create the impression of... [more]
A community portal about Astroturfing with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: In politics and advertising, the term astroturfing describes formal public relations campaigns which seek to create the impression of being a spontaneous, grassroots behavior. Hence the reference to the " AstroTurf " is a metaphor to indicate "fake grassroots " support.
In Social Media, temptation is everywhere. The temptation to travel down wormholes that have nothing to do with your original intention of visiting a blog or doing research is commonplace. As a social media agency, the biggest temptation is Astroturfing (definition form wikipedia): Astroturfing in American English is a neologism for formal public relations campaigns in politics and advertising which seek to create the impression of being spontaneous, grassroots behavior, hence the reference...
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Amid charges from LibraryThing of planting blog comments, social networking site Shelfari now belongs 100 percent to Amazon.com. Yet so, too, does AbeBooks, a partial owner of LibraryThing.
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Astroturfing is a neologism for formal public relations campaigns in politics and advertising which seek to create the impression of being spontaneous "grassroots" behaviour, hence the reference to the artificial grass, AstroTurf.
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From del.icio.us
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The Washington Post today has a rather accusatory article today chronicling what it’s calling an astroturfing effort by the McCain online team today. From the article:
Spread John McCain’s official talking points around the Web — and you could win valuable prizes!
That, in essence, is the McCain...
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From mashable.com
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Grass roots right wing style. In the PR game they call it "Astroturfing." It means creating a movement or organization that looks like it's "grassroots" but really isn't. One of the more noxious sprouts of ...
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The Web has opened up vast new fields to be covered with synthetic grassroots electioneering
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From theglobeandmail.com
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Digital Media takes a look today at the growing practice of astroturfing in China.
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Over at TPMCafe, David Sirota takes up a favorite TPM topic -- astroturfing -- and explains how it's a symptom of what he calls "autocratic progressivism," which emphasizes a top-down structure versus true grassroots organizing. Jared Bernstein responds by pushing for progressives to do both: [W...
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From talkingpointsmemo.com
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Looks like the Bush people pulling McCain's strings are officially asking people to post false info on discussion boards in return for points.
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John McCain launched a "Spread the Word"
initiative in which the U.S. Presidential candidate asked
supporters to copy-and-paste talking points in the comments sections on
select blogs in exchange for "reward points redeemable for valuable
prizes." As you all know, I avoid discussing the upcoming...
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From socialmediatoday.com
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The Washington Post today has a rather accusatory article today chronicling what it’s calling an astroturfing effort by the McCain online team today... This is a ridiculous accusation, and one clearly marks a sentiment amongst bloggers and media members latching on to this that what’s good for...
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From freerepublic.com
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