Skip to main content

Home/ K-12 Government/Election Teaching Materials/ Group items tagged social-networking

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Anne Bubnic

'Rock the Vote' and other campaigns fall on deaf ears - 0 views

news.postbulletin.com/...localnews_story.asp

ad4dcss article digital_youth global_citizenship politics

shared by Anne Bubnic on 21 Aug 08 - Cached
  • We've all heard the messages from MTV, P. Diddy, and countless others about why we should "Rock the Vote," but these slogans don't address the common misconception that even if we do vote, nothing will really change. And it's obvious that these messages have fallen on deaf ears. The number of voters under 30 in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections remained stagnant at just 17 percent.
  • Teens become apathetic because politicians are unresponsive, politicians become indifferent to teens because they are apathetic and don't vote.
  • The way to break this cycle is to make teens feel like they have a voice that politicians will listen to.
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • Politicians have been reaching out to youth by holding events on social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook. CNN even held the YouTube debates, allowing users to submit questions directly to candidates.
  • Anne Bubnic on 21 Aug 08
     
    The number of voters under 30 in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections remained stagnant at just 17 percent. Teens become apathetic because politicians are unresponsive, politicians become indifferent to teens because they are apathetic and don't vote.
    The way to break this cycle is to make teens feel like they have a voice that politicians will listen to. Politicians have been reaching out to youth by holding events on social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook. CNN even held the YouTube debates, allowing users to submit questions directly to candidates. Making politicians answerable to young people forces their interests to be considered.\n\n
Jeff Johnson

Obama poised to be first 'wired' president (CNN.com) - 0 views

www.cnn.com/...index.html

wired president obama savvy facebook youtube connected social-networking

shared by Jeff Johnson on 18 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Jeff Johnson on 18 Jan 09
     
    Judging by Obama's savvy use of social-networking sites during his campaign and the interactive nature of his transition team's Web site, Americans can expect a president who bypasses the traditional media's filters while reaching out to citizens for input, observers say. "The rebooting of our democracy has begun," said Andrew Rasiej, founder of Personal Democracy Forum and the techPresident blog. "[Obama] has the potential to transform the relationship between the American public and their democracy."
1 - 2 of 2
Showing 20▼ items per page