Leah Katz-Hernandez: The New Media

TRANSCRIPT:

Leah Katz-Hernandez: Hi, if youre curious about how politicians learn their game, how to win, how to perfect a successful campaign, how to get votes for themselves then here is the answer. I was fascinated by what interesting things I learned today during an all-day seminar here in Washington DC. They explain so much through an intensive set of workshops all day. Basically, the concept is the same as if you have a career in teaching and you would go to a conference for teachers where they have workshops explaining how to improve teaching strategies. For psychologists, theres conferences where those with careers in psychology learn about new diagnosis, treatments, and so on. Again, its the same thing with politics. They do have conferences for political careers. Here, they explain how to capture and enthrall target voters, how to target, what makes a successful campaign, and many more things. The list goes on. One thing I found particularly interesting was the subject of Traditional Media and New Media like blogs and vlogs. As I watched the panel, I realized that Im part of the New Media. You see, the deaf people have truly immersed themselves into the New Media. However, for the politicians New Media is a hot new thing to them. So when you consider that before today, deaf people were harder to reach for the politicians due to the traditional media. Campaign tactics would often include phone-calling and canvassing and it didnt work because it alienated the deaf people. But today we have newer technology: Emails, vlogs, and blogs theyre all new things and accessible to the deaf people. So that means that we truly do have the potential to become a stronger voting bloc. Politicians should pay attention to us the deaf people!

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• politics
• campaign
• election
• asl
• vlog
• media
• blog

[beltempo7]

transcript is up!

[RachelQZ]

Anxiously awaiting transcript...fingers crossed soon??:-)