I'm Yuki. I'm going to talking about election.
In 2012, the biggest decision is coming in USA. It is a presidential elecion. New president will be voted by American after president Obama will finish up his term of 4 years. Then, CNN and Facebook start a event called "America's Choice 2012". (Article is here.)
A purpose of this event is to offer American people oppotunities to share their thoughts and feelings on candidates and critical issues about the country. Users on Facebook can communicate thier ideas by using an app called "I'm Voting". CNN give them questions about the political conventions, presidental debates and Election Day approach. Also, Facebook report the aggregate amount of disccusion surrounding each candidate.
In Japan, low voting rate of young age generation is problem. I think one of reasons is they are not interested in election. However, this event help them to have curious because social media is close to them. Also, it makes important connections between citizens and candidate. Therefore, I like this idea. What do you think? Let me tell your opinion!!
Mitt Romney
He is a rival of Obama. Their approval rating are even!!
PS, I'm sorry to post it late,,,
Hi I'm Shiori. I think SNS is good tool to attract young people. Especially the contents are important. I have two ideas. How about rating system? Voters can rate candicates (power of negotiation, speech and achievement etc). Another one is voters can discuss about problems they are interested in. Because which do you choose is depending on which problem do you solve or precede.
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of apps for the election. In fact I downloaded a couple for the election. It would be good to have some online stuff going on in Japan because I don't think people here talk freely about politics. So it would be a good way to get some ideas flowing.
ReplyDeleteMs. MacGregor