As Americans, we collectively know what we want and when we want it. (Now). Whether it be our packages purchased through online shopping, the weather or election results, we want it immediately. On top of that, we want to do as little work as possible to reach the goal. Both of these things play into our… Continue reading Technologically-Informed Voters
It’s no secret that millennials are consistently the voting-age population group that is least likely to cast a ballot on Election Day. According to a report by the Center for Information and Research on civic learning and engagement, 19.9 percent of 18 to 29-year-olds casted ballots in the 2014 election. This was the lowest rate… Continue reading Technology could be key to youth voter participation
Being in a social media dominant era, people heavily rely on it to gain information on election coverage and the hopeful candidates. However, sometimes social media can be skewed when trying to find accurate information on each candidate. Thanks to The Boston Globe and Change.org, there are now apps with curated information on helping you choose a… Continue reading Mobile Apps Helping the Election
I was sitting beside my friend this weekend and noticed she was intensely staring at her phone for about 30 minutes, so I asked her what was up. I figured she would be scrolling through Instagram, but instead she was taking a quiz to see who she should vote for in the 2016 presidential election. A… Continue reading Politics are bearable, thanks to apps
Lauren Hazard Owen of the Neiman Lab pointed out that the Boston Globe released a new app that constantly updated the results of the Iowa caucus. With an audience craving constant updates, the app was ingenuously designed to refresh every 15 seconds, updating both the GOP and democratic sides of the race. The constantly updated results… Continue reading The Boston Globe has Built a Creative App to Keep Voters Updated
The Boston Globe recently launched a new app that allows its users to monitor the primary election results as they happen. The app refreshes automatically every 15 seconds and does not require the reader to pull down the page to get the information to update. According to an article by Laura Hazard Owen for the… Continue reading The Boston Globe’s new campaign watch app: innovative or obsessive?
It seems that an application that increased the refresh period from 60 seconds down to 15 has dramatically changed the way the rest of the world watched the results tally up from Iowa. “The Globe’s tweets linking to the app pulled in about 10 times the traffic that the Globe normally gets to article pages via… Continue reading For Election Results so Close, only the Fastest will do
The Vice President of Tencent Juhong Chen said in The Future of Chinese Internet media, a report published by the Tsinghua School of Journalism and Communication New Media Research Center and Tencent that the news organizations have crashed, the platform has been rebuilt. A brand new ‘Mass media era’ has already come. Facing up to… Continue reading News Media’s Future in China
The New York Times and WBUR-FM, Boston’s NPR news station, are taking podcasting out of the dark ages by bringing ‘Modern Love’ essays to life with music, sounds and celebrities. ‘Modern Love’ is a popular column in the New York Times that has been going for nearly a decade. Last year they released their ten most popular… Continue reading Modern Love
As a twenty-year-old, this is the first time I get to vote in a national election. I see why so many teenagers don’t vote, it’s scary! First of all, we are so busy with college and our lives that being able to follow the election to figure out who we want to vote for is… Continue reading 5 Life Changing Political Apps
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