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Election Story, Part One(Social media tells the story of the 2008 USA election from voting to

inauguration)PF Anderson, [email protected]

Election Story, Part One

• The following slides contain screenshots and images from a variety of social media, illustrating the story of the 2008 United States of America Election.

• Part One of this slide series covers the time period from the early vote through Election Day, results, announcement, and the immediate reactions.

Election Story, Part One

• Blogs• Facebook• Flickr• Friendfeed • Google Maps• iReport• Jaiku

• MySpace• Our Vote Live• Plurk• Second Life• Twitter• Ustream• YouTube

Social media and online tools shown in this presentation include:

Also shown are other tools or sites referenced in the above or serving as add-ons to the above.

Election Story, Part One

• Flickr images used not in screenshots– Election Day 2008, 7:15AM

• http://flickr.com/photos/rosefirerising/3003618536/– The most important election of my life:

• http://flickr.com/photos/litherland/3005013034/– Election Counting Followers (Times Square NY):

• http://flickr.com/photos/kapten/3004734862/– Election Night U Street Washington DC:

• http://flickr.com/photos/wumpiewoo/3004360953/– Election Night 2 (Grant Park Chicago):

• http://flickr.com/photos/yuan2003/3003829379/

Election Story, Part One• Flickr images used not in screenshots

– 2008 election US map vote graphs:• http://flickr.com/photos/dtribby/3006009506/

– 2008 Elections Life (via nytimes):• http://flickr.com/photos/whoisstan/3002670645/

– John McCain (featured on http://news.yahoo.com/elections):

• http://flickr.com/photos/marcn/2147200244/– Election night pumpkin:

• http://flickr.com/photos/nosha/3016148622/

Election Story, Part One

• Contact information– PF Anderson– Emerging Technologies Librarian– University of Michigan– [email protected]


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