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Veek the Vote
Going a step beyond voting, people are using their video cameras and even cell phones to document voter intimidation, long lines, voter equipment problems, and to keep tabs of what's going on during the election.
Video the Vote was inspired by American Blackout, a movie about voter suppression, and encourages citizens to film the vote. Going one step further in futuristic media coverage, YouthNoise and Veeker are presenting Veek the Vote. A Veek is apparently a video taken with a cell phones (a video peek) and people are encouraged to take video peeks at their local elections and upload them. People can then not only view streaming videos from people's cell phones, but can embed the veek the vote player on their site. Actually, I'm going to do that right now. Let's seek how it goes.
Okay, that was easy. And in case you had any doubts as to the cultural impact of blogging (or YouTube), here's a YouTube video from Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid about voting and blogging.
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Veek The Vote 2006 Success!
Hi Gina,
Thanks for the posting about this great project. i wanted to take a minute to give you and your readers an update on VeekTheVote 2006.
In short, it was an overwhelmingly successful launch of mobile video communications into the many-to-many social world. Over 750 veeks from 10+ states were submitted and then streamed to our site and all of our embedded players (like the one above, only the last 75 are shown in the embedded players, see them all by logging on).
“College kids and senior citizens alike joined together to use the cameras in their mobile phones to communicate their experiences and opinions on Election Day,” states Veeker Co-Founder Rodger Raderman. “People felt empowered by the ability to express themselves in this way to other Americans. Taken together, all of these videos present a richly textured view of Election Day in America.”
We believe that this is another great step towardsd ending voter apathy in America with participatory media.