Polling Place Photos, Videos and Tweets

Posted by Kathy Gill on
Thursday, October 30th, 2008 at 4:58 pm

There’s a widespread clamor for crowdsourced documentation at the polls this election: the NY Times “polling place photo project” … the PBS/YouTube “Video Your Vote” campaign … and the techPresident Twitter #VoteReport. Each project relies on the distributed network of connected and engaged voters.

Not one of these efforts would have been feasible in 2004 — that’s how much technology (ease of use, access) has changed in four short years. Remember, in 2004 there was no YouTube!

Students in the MCDM Digital Democracy class are developing an archive of digital media used on election day; some are also making a video. Feel free to join them!