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== Politics and journalism ==
Use of social software for [[politics]] has also expanded drastically especially over 2004–2006 to include a wide range of social software, often closely integrated with services like [[phone tree]]s and [[deliberative democracy]] forums and run by a candidate, party or [[caucus]].

[[Open politics]], a variant of open-source governance, combines aspects of the [[free software]] and [[open content]] movements, promoting [[decision-making]] methods claimed to be more open, less antagonistic, and more capable of determining what is in the [[public interest]] with respect to [[public policy]] issues. It is a set of best practices from [[citizen journalism]], [[participatory democracy]] and [[deliberative democracy]], informed by [[e-democracy]] and [[netroots]] experiments, applying argumentation framework for issue-based argument and a [[political philosophy]], which advocates the application of the philosophies of the [[Open-source software|open-source]] and open-content movements to [[democracy|democratic]] principles to enable any interested citizen to add to the creation of policy, as with a [[wiki]] document. Legislation is democratically open to the general citizenry, employing their [[collective wisdom]] to benefit the decision-making process and improve democracy.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=450zYUjsPNQC&pg=PT56 Open-source democracy: how online communication is changing offline politics] by [[Douglas Rushkoff]], published by [[Demos (UK think tank)|Demos]]. Page 56 et al</ref> Open politics encompasses the [[open government]] principle including those for public participation and engagement, such as the use of [[IdeaScale]], [[Google Moderator]], [[Semantic MediaWiki]], [[GitHub]], and other software.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=gfzzrnHy5cQC&pg=PA241 Knowledge governance: processes and perspectives]; Snejina Michailova, [[Nicolai J. Foss]], [[Oxford University Press]]. Page 241 et al</ref>

Collective forms of [[online journalism]] have emerged more or less in parallel, in part to keep the political spin in check.