{"id":4710,"date":"2009-09-21T13:07:31","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T11:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bewegteflaeche.de\/?p=4710"},"modified":"2009-09-21T13:07:31","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T11:07:31","slug":"puttering-along-the-digital-autobahn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bewegteflaeche.de\/?p=4710","title":{"rendered":"Puttering Along The Digital Autobahn"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>With Germany&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/09\/04\/AR2009090403593.html\">national elections<\/a> Sept. 27, the campaigns are in high gear. But for all the leading parties&#8216; talk of digital politics, their Web strategies are just that: talk. Their blogs are Potemkin Web sites &#8212; the posts are just rehashed news releases &#8212; and their Facebook groups often have fewer friends than the average American teenager. The parties still think that the Web is just an advertising tool, not a way to raise money, activate volunteers or create a movement behind their candidates. As one official from Germany&#8217;s center-right Christian Democrats told me bluntly: &#8222;It&#8217;s not for the voters. Most of it is just to show the newspapers that we&#8217;re modern and relevant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/09\/18\/AR2009091801145.html\">Artikel in der Washington Post<\/a> \u00fcber den Webwahlkampf in Deutschland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Germany&#8217;s national elections Sept. 27, the campaigns are in high gear. But for all the leading parties&#8216; talk of digital politics, their Web strategies are just that: talk. Their blogs are Potemkin Web sites &#8212; the posts are just rehashed news releases &#8212; and their Facebook groups often have fewer friends than the average [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1","category-politik"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bewegteflaeche.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bewegteflaeche.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bewegteflaeche.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bewegteflaeche.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bewegteflaeche.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bewegteflaeche.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4711,"href":"http:\/\/www.bewegteflaeche.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4710\/revisions\/4711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bewegteflaeche.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bewegteflaeche.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bewegteflaeche.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}