{"id":231,"date":"2008-10-14T17:32:01","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T22:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=231"},"modified":"2008-10-14T17:32:01","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T22:32:01","slug":"barack-obama-is-in-your-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2008\/10\/14\/barack-obama-is-in-your-video-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama is in your video game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.politico.com\/global\/xbox2.jpg\" alt=\"obama video game\" \/><br \/>\nFrom <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/\">Ben Smith<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Somebody in one of our disciplines has to go out and test whether or not this is an effective GOTV (get out the vote) strategy.  it&#8217;s a doable study if you could get data on video game purchases by state\/county\/city and compare it to early voting figures in those areas.  Who&#8217;s with me?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a testament to the orgy of cash the Obama campaign has on hand that it can venture into these untested areas to spread it&#8217;s message.  it has targeted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topix.com\/city\/fulton-mo\/2008\/10\/obama-campaign-reaches-out-to-deaf-community\">hearing impaired voters in Missouri,<\/a> and has purchased a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/nationalpolitics\/ci_10654843\">its own cable<\/a> channel on Dish Network.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if any of you have any insight into whether <em>cyberappeals<\/em> would be an effective strategy for turning out voters?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Ben Smith Somebody in one of our disciplines has to go out and test whether or not this is an effective GOTV (get out the vote) strategy. it&#8217;s a doable study if you could get data on video game purchases by state\/county\/city and compare it to early voting figures in those areas. Who&#8217;s with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}