SMS Politics in America

Link: Hotline On Call: On The Download: SMS Politics

Super coup for Justin Oberman of mopocket.com — the publication of record on American Politics, the National Journal’s The Hotline, has published an overview of SMS text and politics. You remember there was a roundtable going on about this? I was going to go along until I discovered it was in America 😉 — I seriously thought it was going to be somewhere in London. Anyway, check out Justin’s thoughts in the above linked article.

Mobile politics seems to be catching on everywhere but the United States as cell phone users mobilize in the U.K. to Save the Seals or spread the word on where to protest in South Korea. That’s because Americans just don’t rely on their phones in the same way as we do. As mobile politics guru Justin Oberman told the Internet Advocacy roundtable Thursday: “For them, their introduction to the internet is through their phone.”