Ups and downs of a digital-age campaign - The Boston Globe

Ups and downs of a digital-age campaign - The Boston Globe

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Now I do understand that the majority of the examples in this article are about Mitt Romney, but the main ideas do relate to class and some discussions we have had. Also this article relates to class because of its terms like "gatekeeping" as we have read about in Boler.

10/30 class reaction

I thought last Thursday's teaching day was really great however I think that is the last one we should do. It was fun while it lasted but I think that has been enough. I do think the topics this time were much more exciting than the topics from the first teaching day. I thought there were some really great topics and I am especially glad the groups were bigger and that each group sent two people up to teach their topic because it let us hear more topics. I like how we had discussions about the topics without ever saying that we should have discussions, I like how they just emerged. I am looking forward to hearing the last couple presentations and then hopefully we can talk a little bit more about the election since it will be election day.

Terrorist 'tweets'? US Army warns of Twitter dangers (Article)

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Microsoft Movie Maker

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To download Microsoft Movie Maker, go to www.download.com and search "movie maker."

Break Research

Over break I followed the opinions of reports and people within the poilitical community and their view of voter fraud and how it may affect the upcoming election. Basically what the majority of the reporters hope to avoid is another Florida recount that may swing the election again. As the week progressed I learned about the Acorn viting fraud scandall and its involvement with Senator Obama.


As for class and the video making process, it's all fairly easy. All you really have to do is click and drag what you want into the slots below then add some music and fancy transition affects to spice it up. (I will go into more details tomorrow) Once it is saved onto your computer you can then just post it on your blog to present to the class.

Quick note on the readings

As I was reading "Whacking Bush" I couldn't help but think of all the movies and shows and so on that depict President Bush, well, as not the brightest bulb. Over the past two weeks I have been watching playoff baseball pretty religiously on TBS. There is one comedian, Frank Caliendo, who is famous for his impersonations of John Madden, Dr. Phil, Al Pacino, and most notably George Bush. It is then that I realized just how many poeple and how many shows really poke fun at our President.

As for the other readings I thought the chapter on White Supremacy and how it has moved to the internet as a means of practice was very interesting. As for the Rebooting America Articles, I didn;t think they were nearly as good as the articles we read the other day, I thought those ones were much more interesting.

VP Debate and Twitter

I didn't really like using twitter to share my thoughts on the debate, I mean its a good concept but I would have liked to been able to see everyone else's comments and agree or disagree on those as opposed to most of us saying more or less the same thing. I also found myself jumping back and forth to my computer just to see if it was working. I think if I was to do it again I would skip the whole text messaging part and just use my computer. Also I wasn't 100% positive I set everything up correctly; whenever I would text my comment to twitter, it would just show up on my page and my page only. I was the only one on my page and my comments weren't ending up at Prof. Dean's page where I thought they were supposed to go.

In regards to the debate itself, I think it was pretty much even. I think many people watched to see if Palin would flop, but she didn't. I think she did much better in the beginning and Biden came on strong in the end. I have read some articles and reviews that said that many people, at the University of Wisconsin for example started leaving partway through the debate after they noticed that Palin did not flop. It will be interesting to see what the debate tonight brings.