Media Transparent » election http://mediatransparent.com Hyperlocal Brand Management + Social Commerce + Media Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:04:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Resources for Citizen Election Monitoring via the Social Media http://mediatransparent.com/2008/11/03/resources-for-citizen-election-monitoring-via-the-social-media/ http://mediatransparent.com/2008/11/03/resources-for-citizen-election-monitoring-via-the-social-media/#comments Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:46:07 +0000 Pat Kitano http://mediatransparent.com/?p=124 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } The 2008 Election will be much more transparent with the mass media and social media recruiting citizens to report abnormalities at the polling place via cell phone, Twitter and YouTube. What’s happening in these US elections should have profound influence for future elections around the world where democracies still have corrupt elements. Bravo to the [...]]]> #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; }


The 2008 Election will be much more transparent with the mass media and social media recruiting citizens to report abnormalities at the polling place via cell phone, Twitter and YouTube. What’s happening in these US elections should have profound influence for future elections around the world where democracies still have corrupt elements. Bravo to the medias!

Phone

CNN Voter Hotline – (877) GOCNN-08

Voter Rights Advocates Hotline set up in swing states

Twitter

Twitter VoteReport

Video

VideotheVote.org

YouTube Video your Vote (in partnership with PBS)

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Election.Twitter

The verticalization of Twitter continues, as it should. Twitter can be too broad population to effectively filter out vertical conversations.

Micro-blogging is the best medium at this time to aggregate user generated conversations along topics. Election.Twitter is a simple application but provides a hyper-real time view on the mood of the political nation. The mainstream media will understand this utility soon, and court prominent Twitterers by topic.

]]> http://mediatransparent.com/2008/09/25/twitter-as-real-time-media-feed/feed/ 2 The First YouTube Election http://mediatransparent.com/2008/08/05/the-first-youtube-election/ http://mediatransparent.com/2008/08/05/the-first-youtube-election/#comments Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:51:07 +0000 Pat Kitano http://mediatransparent.com/?p=5 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } 1959 was the first TV election with the Kennedy-Nixon debates. Paris Hilton has just become iconic this election… demonstrating that a dubious, accidental celebrity can instantly transform her brand with a smart timely YouTube video in response to a McCain commercial: Watch this 2008 election and see how the social media begins to infiltrate the [...]]]> #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; }


1959 was the first TV election with the Kennedy-Nixon debates. Paris Hilton has just become iconic this election… demonstrating that a dubious, accidental celebrity can instantly transform her brand with a smart timely YouTube video in response to a McCain commercial:

Watch this 2008 election and see how the social media begins to infiltrate the mass media in defining the two candidate. Expect more celebrities, and serious pundits, step up with their own productions to make their points. And finally, the candidate that can be ridiculed the most by user-generated media will likely lose.
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