German Election Voter Mobilization Videos
With only a bit more than a week to the German Bundestagswahl (federal elections), it’s time for a brief recap of the (supposedly viral) videos that have popped…
Category: elections
Sarah Silverman: Simple, smart voter engagement
Another great, fun example of how getting young folks to vote, this time by Sarah Silverman. Sarah tries to get Jewish grandchildren to get their grandparents to vote…
Super endorsements: Comic characters for Obama
Somewhat odd, but here you go: Comic character Savage Dragon endorses Obama, or so says the New York Times‘ The Moment blog: The celebrity endorsements have begun! Savage…
ePolitics: What’s happening right now?
I’d like to give an overview over the whole ePolitics space, from online campaigning to e-participation. Of course, that’s hardly possible, so I’m not even going to try.…
Ameritocracy: Collaborative Fact-Checking
If there’s one thing the internet is pretty good at, then it must be crunching lots of info by having a lot of folks look at said info.…
German Blogosphere: No Political A-List Bloggers in Germany
So far, I haven’t mentioned on this weblog a whole lot about the masters thesis I’m writing. Partly because it didn’t seem to me to be interesting for…
Election campaign videos: Obama campaign goes for video, big time
With videos being considered the hot stuff (or was it social networking, or SMS campaigns? oh well…) for the ongoing election U.S. campaigns, Obama Girl’s I got a…