It has come to my attention that in the last couple of years, streaming videos have become an important part of the political world.
For those of you who don't know what streaming video is please click on the link bellow and hopefully that will help you understand it.
I'm sure you have all noticed that in the past few months the political world has implemented these techniques in order to attract our generation, a generation of internet addicts.
This first video is made by celebrities supporting Barack Obama. If you watch this video and the next one that you can view "We are the world," which many of you might know, you will find similarities, but the main difference is that in this case, Barack Obama's was only made popular by word of mouth and the millions of Internet hits. This is new trend and this is one of the many videos that follow this trend. Having these videos as much a part of a campaign is just as important nowadays as rallying on college campuses.
We didn't have anything as massive as these videos in past campaigns and I wonder what would have been the result in the 2004 elections if viral videos would have played as an important role as they do today.I am anxious to see what role this plays in this years election and how it will affect its outcome. I try to follow candidates sites to see if they upload any streaming videos and in most cases they do.
Here are some of the candidates web pages where you can follow up on their "video campaigns."
The links listed above will take you directly to their multimedia pages and there you can see ho important streaming video is for candidates.
I encourage you to visit some of the following sites to see what role videos play in their campaigns.
Sources: Al Gore's other project
1 comment:
I do sometimes wonder what would have happened with the 2004 election if the candidates used things such as YouTube. But I come to think about the past elections as well. It was the Kennedy and Nixon election where the process and debates were first aired on television broadcasts (I do believe). Then it was podcasts, and now it is YouTube. So this gets me thinking... and kind of excited at the thought of what exciting new technology will come to help our decisions in presidential elections to come!
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