Bloging bad...maybe

I have a question for all of you in blog-land. Could the advent of political websites and blogs actually discourage political action outside of cyberspace? I don’t know the answer and I have not read any studies concerning the topic.

(I only spent about thirty minutes with google scholar trying to find some. I did find an interesting paper entitled “Bloggers and Their Blogs: A Depiction of the Users and Usage of Weblogs on the World Wild Web”. I have not read it all yet but is it looks interesting.)

Getting back to my question, I think the answer could be yes. I think that people using the internet, expressly blogs, might feel that they are taking action to evoke political change and therefore neglect other action that may actually be more efficient.

I could see how someone could get a false sense of accomplishment after spending hours to keep a blog current and interesting. This could lead him to neglect other behavior such as handing out flyers or going door to door for a candidate.

I am not convinced at all that my hypothesis is correct.

What do you think?