Shifting The Debate

Liberals Showing Health Care Blogmentum

With the House of Representatives preparing to vote on health care reform, the intensity of conservative bloggers focus on health care has been decreasing while the grassroots liberal bloggers have turned up the heat.  

Morningside Analytics tracking of the conversations of the 6,000 bloggers most focused on health care issues shows that the overall conversation on health care policy (measured by an index of the use of the terms used in the conversation) across the entire blogosphere peeked in August.    However, a closer look at the bloggers who share attentive behavior (link to similar sources) shows the intensity level varies fairly dramatically.

Messages & Sources of Online Energy & Health Policy Discussions - Video (Part 3)

How are different groups talking about energy and health policy?

What are the sources that are influencing these different groups?

The video above is from a presentation made earlier this month at the MIT Summit Conference Series.