Final Trailer / Proposal

The cultural and political impact of anonymous blogging and public discourse within those forums.

My research will focus more on the political side of things and how anonymous discussion, ideas, and accusations effect major media networks and their overall content. I will specifically focus on anonymous blogs and open forum discussions surrounding politics and it's relation to published media reports.

For example, the Daily Kos is a left wing radically liberal blog which was the first place the story about Bristol Palin's (Sarah Palin's daughter) pregnancy gained steam. ArcXIX called the governer out saying, "Well, Sarah, I'm calling you a liar. And not even a good one. Trig Paxson Van Palin is not your son. He is your grandson. The sooner you come forward with this revelation to the public, the better."
In the end Gov. Palin was pregnant and so was her daughter Bristol. The actual accusation proved to be untrue but it did force the truth. The national media wouldn't have been on the story as quickly without the anonymous report on the dailykos.

Another avenue I will explore is the fact that we now see the "experts" and "talking heads" getting involved with these anonymous bloggers, which is one aspect of this I think is crucial to the project and shows the mergence and relentlessness of anonymous and its existence and movement into every form of mass communication.

Here's my trailer. I made some changes to it but not much, just tweaked the audio a bit, added some sound effects, and made some textual changes.