Tag Archives: McCain

Academic Freedom

By Lee Aase | Published: November 4, 2008
Other than exploring the social media applications and implications of this year’s election, I’ve stayed away from political advocacy on SMUG. But I do feel compelled to share this YouTube video — Obama’s Attack Ad Against Himself — because it is the kind of social media creation that no campaign could afford to put on [...]
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Sen. Biden’s Macaca Moment: Pandering or Unguarded?

By Lee Aase | Published: September 27, 2008
As part of the SMUG Political Science seminar series, we’ve previously looked at the use of social media by the McCain and Obama campaigns. The campaigns and their cohorts have created platforms for their supporters to interact and express themselves, and also have established outposts within the major networking sites like YouTube and Facebook to [...]
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Election 2008 on Twitter

By Lee Aase | Published: September 26, 2008
If you haven’t checked out this Election2008 site on Twitter, you really should. It’s a great way to see a real-time political pulse, although the population of the Twitterverse seems to be pretty skewed to the left/Obama side. Any Tweets that mention Biden, McCain, Obama, or Palin flow together in a continuously updated river of [...]
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Obama, McCain Both Have “Girls”

By Lee Aase | Published: September 1, 2008
In his analysis of Barack Obama’s use of social media in Social Media 302, Associate Professor Scott Meis called attention to a key difference between this campaign cycle and those of the past: In the past, a campaign team may have overreacted to a video such as Obama Girl or been concerned about not having [...]
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Social Media 302: Barack Obama’s Social Media Strategy

By Lee Aase | Published: August 31, 2008
In Social Media 301, we examined the McCain campaign’s use of the Web, and invited an associate professor to provide a similar analysis for the Obama campaign. Scott Meis, a SMUGgle from Chicago, has risen to the challenge with Analyzing Barack Obama’s Social Media Strategy. Here’s an excerpt: Visit any of Obama’s networking tools and [...]
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