Getting Political

I don't have experience of voting due to my home country political system. I will pay attention to the candidate's main slogan and the propaganda he made. At the same time his personal experience is part of the voting I will consider. I will search some of his related news and  reports oline. Search engines is already a tool for getting messages, so whether digital promotions and materials are benifical and authentic is important for candidates.

My experience on social media leading up to the vote was being exposed to political messages from both parties on EVERY social media channel I use. They were usually sponsored posts by candidates of all parties telling about what they are trying to do for our state and encouraging people to vote for them. I was not influenced by what I saw because I know that they are usually sponsored ads that are paid for- just like any other company paying for an advertisement. I did not do research to confirm the truth.

Leading up to the vote I saw a lot focus on prop-1 and localized initiatives/programs. These messages were both for and against prop-1 and came from a variety of different organizations. One place that I saw these ads that I did not expect to find them was YouTube. Most of these ads did not change my opinion at all, but instead just brought the issue to the front of my head. In one instance I did do a bit a research after seeing an ad, but the others did not interest me as much.

Voting I think is a procedure for bringing together individual wishes into an overall will and is the main mechanism for democratic countries to reflect public opinion. However, in my country, events are rarely decided through elections.

But by watching election in the US, I find out that although the electoral system is only a method of counting votes, different systems often choose different results. In addition, once a set of electoral systems has been adopted, political forces based on superiority do not wish to change the existing electoral system based on political interests.

I am not eligible vote and coming from a country that does not use voting to decide the next presidency, it is always interesting watching the voting hype that occurs in the States. Even though I can’t vote, there is large amount of influence from the event ranging from “I voted” stickers to ads prompting you to vote for someone. If I could vote, I would most likely choose to vote online because it is more convenient and you’re less likely to get into a political argument with bystanders. There are a lot of rumors and speculations going around and it is hard to differentiate what is real and what is not even while you conduct your own research. At a certain point I believe you will just have to trust. 

I did not have the opportunity to vote, but I strongly support the people to vote. The country needs democracy and the people have the right to vote freely. By voting, people can express their own voices and opinions, which are important to society and the country. But if it is on social media, I may not believe any political information in social media.

From my perspective, social media largely affect elections. People get information from social media. Social media also will release some latest news about elections to people. If social media try to lead a trend about elections, just release more good news about people who support and release band news to peoson who they do not support. That's easy. 

A large reason as to why I deleted my social media accounts had to do with the previous presidential election. I no longer wanted to see biased and false articles, and posts of he said-she said to sway my vote. This election I relied largely on the research of running candidates as well as news articles. When I read articles that I felt sounded biased or too wild to be the entire truth, I tried to find out more background information about the topic. 

There is both positives and negatives for social media in the political field but i think it is mostly negative. I feel like a lot of young people wouldn't have known about the mid-term elections if there wasn't social media. My view is that people that use social media to talk and judge about other views is wrong. Everyone should to be able to have thier own opinion but why post it on social media? I don't think people are going to read a tweet and for them to change their opinion. To be honest, I think that when I see a political post, I'm more than likely ignore it. 

Social media has done both negative and positive things to effect politics. There are several false headlines and ideas that are placed online on social media that can negatively effect peoples views and ideas. I take everything i see on social media with a grain of salt, therefore I would never consider political information found on social media to be legit.  

At first, I didn't realize when the mid-term elections were. I then saw it repreatedly on my twitter from people I follow retweeting tweets about the elections and tweeting themselves about it. I saw more and more information about the elections leading up to it. There were many different types of messages exposed. Many people were retweeting/resharing posts from different people running. People were also sharing there own thoughts and opinions on the people running in the election. I can't say I was influenced by what I saw, but it was interesting to see others views on the elections and the people running. It helped me see where these people were coming from and what they believed in. I always do research when seeing things I'm curious about on social media. I found a lot fo times that the things are not true, or that they have twisted the truth.

I usually do not follow politics but leading up to the midterm election I noticed a lot of people using Facebook and Twitter to talk about their political views or to encourage people to go out and vote. Using social media platforms is a great way to reach a lot of people quickly and create discussions and awareness of current events. I saw a lot of my Facebook friends make posts about how important they felt it was for everyone to go out and vote and what their personal and political opinions were. On Twitter I saw lots of celebrities discussing issues they felt needed to be fixed and also expressed how important it was for everyone to go out and vote. 

I didn't have a chace to vote and even back in my country, I didn't get a chance to vote too. However, I was told by a lot of times about the elections through different media type.

I don't have any experience on any votes before because my country does not have chances for usual people to vote. However, I am very interested in participating of any votes, because it can show people's freedom in a big country. Also, I received many messages about the voting, too. In my opinion, the messages of having lower taxes is being exposed because it helped the people who have low wages a lot. 

To be honest I tend to stay off social media around the election because of how many things are posted around that time. I tend to see more negative post about things people don’t like and I see more people arguing with others on views they don’t agree on. However, there was one post I did like on Facebook it’s said something about being your friend no matter who you vote for. Which I think is very important not all people agre on the same things but some people can get really nasty to others about it. Especially over social media. I was not influenced by anything that I saw and I didn’t see a lot of things that I would look up to confirm. But I do find social media to be help when getting news around I found out through twitter who won the election.

Because I am an international student, I could not participate in the exciting vote on that day. In my opinion, if I am a resident, I would vote for Andrea Schroeder because she would fight for more jobs, stronger education, and lower taxes that would help us release the pressure.

I am not eligible to vote as an International student in the United States. But I do see many news about voting in Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, etc. Especially in Instagram, I noticed some of the famous people shared the posts about voting. Actually I were influenced by these posts. But, I did not research to confirm it’s truth.

By already spending so much with YouTube for my assignments for this class, I found it interesting how they pushed for political parties. The pre-roll ads shown usually were just TV advertisements or shortened versions (with 5 seconds being standard) pushing voters towards whichever candidate it was geared towards. I wouldn't say they really swayed any of my opinions but definitely got me curious enough to do my own research. Aside from that, most social media websites promoted links to help users register to vote or get informed as to how for their local area. Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube all had promotions urging people to register, which I feel was a good way to promote awareness of how important the mid-term elections actually are. 

I hardly ever participate into poilitical activities, and even won't focus on information about it. However, I have to admit that, social media, in some degree, changed the model of political voting. First of all, it offers a platform for citizens to show the current situation of every candidate, such as the activity locations, support rate, comments from others and so on. Also, people can find different voices on social media which are good reference conditions of voting. And those candidates can also interact with citizens and show their voices by this platform. Furthermore, because of its importance and attention degree, even people who never concern about it may see it on the social medai's main page. And this can attract the potential audiences and may let them join in. Generally speaking, social media is an important platform that can bridge the gap between voters and candidates, allow everyone shares their opinion about it, and let more citizens paricipate in. 

This election was particularly interesting to me. My experience on social leading up to vote was very intense and I couldn't seem to get away from it. One of my very good friends was on one of the campaigns for a candidate running for U.S Senate, causing me to see posts daily on my Instagram and Facebook feed. The messages I was mostly exposed to were videos of rallys that she was at. I wasn't really influenced by what I saw because that candidate was one that I already identified with prior to her even being on the campaign. I didn't have to do any research to confirm any truths because she didn't put up bashing commercials like other ones I have seen on TV that she wasn't apart of. Even if I did see a commercial bashing one political side over the other, I don't believe I would research it's truth because I wouldn't change my political stance. 

I believe that social media is a huge influencer to the uneducated voter. This was the first time I have seen multiple people post on their Facebook, Twitter and Instagram expressing the urge to go out and vote or showing off that they already did vote. I wasnt affected much by the voting, personally I showed up, voted on what I was educated about and left. I wasnt swayed very much on social media as much as I was by my mom and sister. 

As a voter here in the United States, I find the messages on television, Facebook, and YouTube to very persuasive to an unknowledgeable voter. The messages often make the voter voting for the opposite party or policy to seem like the wrong choice, and if chosen make on feel like they ruined the country. I believe this is fine, however, I believe each voter should take the time to gain knowledge on what they are voting for before going to vote. It h=is hard to be passionate about something you have no information on. 

As an International student in Us, I am not eligible to vote. And also this is not how we do in my own country. However, I can see that people are likely to use mobile to vote. I can follow the news, candidates on social media.  We see a lot in social media site, and I believe that people are easy to influence by the social media. However, I would choose not to influence by the social media, and do my own search, get my own views about the political site on my opinion in order to vote. 

I am not eligible to vote. But I found people around me are very keen on mobile and online voting. Even the professors in the class will drive everyone to participate in the voting. Since I don't have relevant experience, I am not very sure if it will be affected by people around me or what I saw from them. Through my observations, most people choose to vote online because the privacy and also they can make their own choices. So I don't think the surrounding will affect you to make the final choice.

Social media played a big role in voting. I tend to stay away from social media when it comes to political things due to the fake news always presented by CNN. I was always exposed to new representatives and new issues that are being addressed, although I try to not let media influence my decisions. I stick to my own research to understand the real truth. 

Social media is on us one the moment we open up our eyes from bed to when we sleep. This pattern happens daily and the usage of social media via smartphone has been significantly increasing annually. During election season, social media does an excellent job promoting a particular to the target. This is what we are exactly learning in this class and learned many from it. 

From my home country (South Korea), we do this the same way. During election season, the citizens get exposed to the messages that are stated in social media. Personally, I tend to believe what the message that the candidate has posted. This brings strong influence to me and also to my particular political colors. For example, we had a presidential election. We had an early election due to an impeachment of the formal president. From the streets, television broadcast, radio, and most social media gave a great impact to the period. Some of the messages on social media sounded true. When there are different kinds of controversies, I tend to look up information through online and if the confirmation shows wrong, I will have a negative view from my perspective and to the future. 

Today, society is very sensitive and getting smarter. Social media can sometimes be a plus element while it can bring negative factor as well. It is very essential to know what you are posting with a comprehensible statement for the audience to understand what you want to express in a certain way.  

I think my experience with midterm social media was a bit skewed, as I follow quite a few journalists from FiveThirtyEight and other elections forecasters on Twitter, so I saw a more journalistic view of the midterms. That being said, Twitter's algorithm would show me a lot more suggested tweets from liberal commentators. Facebook, on the other hand, showed me a lot more posts from conservative pages. I don't really trust political social media posts, unless they're coming from a legitimate journalist from a reputable organization. But I think all of us enjoy reading partisan takes/comments on social media when they align with our beliefs. It's important we all take the time to check our biases and not surround ourself in an echo chamber on social media. 

As an international studednt, I am not able to participate the mid-term election.However,I can use the media to understand the selected trends and results. The media has had an important influence on the candidates and voters. We can use the media to understand the information of candidates. Similarly, candidates can promote themselves through the media.I believe that most people will be influenced bby what they saw on the soccial media.Analysis by The New York Times found that overall, Democratic candidates have more Facebook shares, likes, and comments. But in five out of nine toss-up Senate races, the Republican candidates have seen higher interactions on Facebook over the past 30 days.

I am typically engaged with politicians, political parties and interest groups, non-profits, etc. on social media, including leading up to the midterm elections. I am probably a little older than most students in this class and have been voting since 2010. I have been on Twitter since 2009, and that is the platform where I’m following the most political and social justice content.

I also watch a lot of YouTube, and I saw a lot of ads there, specifically attack ads for particular Michigan politicians. This was pretty different from what I was seeing on Twitter, where the bubble effect is very real. I follow the issues that I care about; it is relatively easy to block or not follow people who support policies completely unaligned with my own beliefs. Ultimately I did research outside of social media when preparing to vote. However with certain organizations that I follow who made endorsements (example: Planned Parenthood), their credibility and their mission was a good indicator that a candidate with their endorsement was someone I would likely support.

All my news is consumed online since getting rid of cable, and social media is a big part of that. The reach of social media has also enabled me to have more awareness of local or state elections across the country, rather than being more limited to where I live or what mainstream media chooses to report on.

I typically do not follow politics. The midterm election was very interesting because there were a lot of social media platforms that were significantly influenced by politics. The majority of the postings regarding this election I saw were on Facebook.  This was either a result of certain promotions on my homepage or individual users sharing their personal opinions. Social media is a great outlet to reach a significant amount of people quickly and abruptly. I did not notice other social media platforms that were effected by the election. I was highly encouraged to vote through social media. Famous figures began to take a stance and promote the importance of voting. 

The channel of political communication based on social media has effectively promoted the mass participation of the public in politics, played a role in lowering the threshold, enabling the public to effectively participate in interactive discussions and effectively supervise politics. It is a low-cost publicity campaign and an effective channel for the media to obtain news resources for the first time. It has supplemented and publicized the US presidential election, making the scope of political communication wider and more influential.

In October 2016, when the US presidential election entered the sprint stage, in essence, the competition between the two parties candidates was very intense, and the helplessness and confusion of the people were deepening. At the same time, WikiLeaks has announced the publication of secret documents related to presidential elections, wars, and oil. In addition, a US opinion poll shows that Trump is the most unpopular candidate in the United States in 25 years, and its registered voters are not satisfied with up to 60%, and the gap with Hillary Clinton is Very weak. Republican presidential candidate, New York real estate tycoon Donald Trump defeated Hillary at 274:218 to win the 2016 US presidential election. During the political elections in the US election, the government microblog became a new media platform for publishing information and transmitting government voices. The government microblog played a big role in responding to emergencies.

My experience with social media leading up to the election wasn't probably like the average one. I dont have any social media outlets or anything except for the linkedin that we were assigned to create. So I didnt see anything on social media about the midterms. However I did here news about it and I seen ads on TV about it as well. With that being said, I looked up my own research, so I could form my own views on my opnion and vote. 

My experience on social leading up to the vote was bombarded with political ads. It was like this up until the last moment on election day. There were ads from democrats, republicans, and independent parties. I was not influenced by what I saw because I knew that these ads were incredibly biased. I decided that I was not going to base my vote off of these political ads. I did not do research to confirm the truth in the ads since I did not pay attention to those ads. I did do research on issues that matter to me and to inform my vote. 

I saw a larger presence of political ads on YouTube and Facebook than in past elections. Most of these ads were short videos that were directed at the millenial generation about turning to vote, but some were also targeting an older generation with threats of Antifa and the "liberal agenda" invading Michigan. Since I don't vote in Michigan, I disregarded most of these advertisements and did not look into the validity of their claims.

I vote by absentee for the state of Indiana, so I was able to do research on candidates with my ballot in hand. It was very useful to access a candidate's website, social accounts, and voting record while choosing for whom to vote.

I saw a lot of messages geared towards younger people and ecouraging them to vote. I actually saw a lot more than when we had the presedential election in 2016. I felt as though they are now solely relying on us and are trying to spread how important it is to vote. The best way to reach us is through social media so they took that format and took advantage. I believe that it was a smart thing to do and I feel as though it worked and got through with our generation. I was influenced by what I saw, I saw it so much it was 80% of the reason as to why I voted. I didn't research to confirm anything I just went with what I knew was right.

In all honesty, most of what I know about any politics is from social media. I don't watch the news, as I do not really care for politics anyways. However, I did realize that this year more than ever, I was exposed to far more political campaigning through digital and social. I saw numerous ads for candidates, most of which I did not research to seek or confirm its truth. The ads do not necessarily have much influence on my vote, but I do tend to take others opinions into consideration when scrolling through my social media accounts. 

Another form of connection I expereinced almost daily was random text messages encouraging me to vote. Persoanlly, I found this annoying and invasive. That had absolutely zero influence on my vote as well. 

Honesly, most of my knowledge about this election on social media. A lot of the messages I seen were advertisments encouraging people, young people specifically to vote. There was a lot of content that made the props super easy to understand and that shed light on why is was important for us to get out and vote. There were a ton of candidate specific ads I seen just based on my location on social media. I am from Flint, however, my sponsered ads on all of my social media platforms were for people running for office in Lansing or East Lansing. 

I was influence by what I saw. I think thing mainly I would have forgot had it not been for all the voting propaganda. I do not keep up with politics to be honest, so having the information right there on social media made it a lot harder NOT to get out and vote. 

Given that I've largely tuned out of a lot of social media in 2018, my experience on social media leading up to the 2018 midterms was different than that of the 2016 presidential election. Back then, I'd get into Facebook arguments daily about Clinton vs. Trump or whether either candidate could do any given thing in their campaign. I was exposed, both then and now, to messages from both sides of the political spectrum lobbying for their candidates. 

I think this time around, the major difference was that I was tuned out to so much of it. I would mute candidates and pages on Facebook and Twitter; since I manually researched candidates and positions for Election Day, I didn't feel a need for social media to inform me of that. 

I definitely saw a lot of political campaigns all over the media. I saw several on Facebook and Twitter and a surprisngy amount on Hulu. I saw a lot of campaigns for both Nancy Pelosi and Ellisa Slotkin. I was exposed to negative things both of them have done in the past and what they stand for. After seeing the ads I started to have negative views for the both of them. After seeing so many commercial ads on Hulu I finally researched and dug deep to find out what was factual or exaggerated. It was hard to ignore all the ads I saw and I didn't want them to influence my decision too much so I am glad I did the research on my own. 

With increasingly use of social media, I almost get each piece of news from social media. As for the mid-term elections, a lot of celebrities make posts on social media, such as Instagram and Facebook. They post their opinions about the election. Also, they encouraged their followers to make a vote. I was deeply impressed by their behavior. Without them, I may easily ignore the mid-term election. However, it was because of their frequent posts in Instagram and Facebook, I become more interested in the mid-term election and more focused on the final result of the election. 

Social media has definitely changed political campaigning. During the weeks before the election, I would see lots of advertisement for candidates. I would also see many celebrities posting their political views and opinions on their social media accounts in hopes to influences their large amounts of followers. Personally, that will not influence me. Just because a celebrity that I like posts their views does not mean I am going to reconsider who I vote for unless they make a very good statement. I enjoy seeing celebrities post with their "I voted" sticker because it is a part of our job as a citizen to vote so I like when they encourage everyone to get out and vote. 

One thing that I really noticed leading up to the elections was the presence of celebrities on social media.  Many big stars were using their huge following on social media to spread the word of what they believe and to give insight to their viewers on their beliefs.  I was influenced by the different opinions I saw on social media and proceeded to research on my own after being exposed to this information.  

One thing that I really noticed leading up to the elections was the presence of celebrities on social media.  Many big stars were using their huge following on social media to spread the word of what they believe and to give insight to their viewers on their beliefs.  I was influenced by the different opinions I saw on social media and proceeded to research on my own after being exposed to this information.  

My parents met working on a successful political campaign, so I've grown up with a more thorough understanding of politics. That being said, I'm not easily moved by political ads, commercials, or what I see on social media. I usually ask my parents' opinion. Full disclosure, I don't blindly vote for whoever my parents vote for, but their opinions are often backed up with personal experiences with candidates and/or facts that aren't being widely publicized. 

In terms of how media has influenced me, I rather look for candidates who try to publicize their goals rather than trying to win votes by being dramatic or trying desperately to appeal to the younger millennial audience. For example, I found it funny--yet pathetic--that Ted Cruz posted a tweet on Halloween poking fun at himself for a conspiracy theory that he was/is the Zodiac Killer. That has nothing to do with policy or what he wants to accomplish in Washington. To me, it looks like a desperate attempt to gain young voters by being "funny."

I, like all my colleagues, were exposed to many different political ads for this midterm election. It's easy to be easily influenced by these ads because of how pursuasive some of them can be. However, none of them influenced by decision for this election because I did my research about each topic that I was voting for to be sure I was voting for something I 100% stood by. The ads I saw mostly came from the RGA (Republican Governors Assn).

Leading up to the vote, it was almost as if there was a funnel affect on social media. The political posts started with one or two here and there, but up until the day after, there was an increasing number of political posts from just about everyone until almost every post on my feed was something political or about the election. A lot of the posts I encountered were paid posts by candidates running in the election, but a lot of the others were by people I follow about how important it is to register to vote and ultimately go out and do it. Then, a lot of those posts turned into the ones that showcased that those people voted with their sticker being the main focus. I have to admit, it was hard not to be influenced or pulled one way or the other because of the frequency of posts that occurred before the election. After doing my own research, though, it became easier to ignore a lot of the political posts on my feed.

It seems every midterm election there is a strong social pressure to go out and vote, this year however it felt like it was taken up a notch. Many people used social media such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to share the message. While it was extremely hard to tune all of this out, it was fairly easy to not swayed politiclly by something a friend of mine had to say online. I neglected to research most of the messages I saw because I found it was often easy to get a sense of the persons bias based on how they positioned the message to go out and vote.

As a Chinese I could not vote for the mid-term election, but there's somthing I found out, it has a really good information spread on different platform and multi-demention. in youtube comercial, you could see all the things about mitd- term eletion, you can see it on compus and also on social media. As a man who is not femiliar with the political thing in America, I am quite influnced by the comercial in the youtube, and I think there is some way to find out if the thing in the comercial in true.

For the mid-term election I couldn't participate, because I am an international student that has no chance to vote. However, it was impressed to me. When I was at my home someone came and asked will you be voting and I thought it was kind of surprise to me. If I had chance I would surely do voting, but however I was never thought that someone would ask me about voting. It was a bit embarrassing, but it seemed like it encouraged people to vote for each other. It was because I watched Youtube encourage voting, encouraging people to exercise their rights through voting and to give a little reflection to the country by seeing that people are encouraged to vote even if they walk the road. Of course I can not vote in the US, but in my country where that I would have a chance to vote, I have to vote. That's because it helps to encourage the votes people have shown me here.