Idea Lab

UCLA Students Got Election News from Social Media

by Anthony Pesce
2008 Knight News Challenge Winner

An exit poll conducted Nov. 4 by the Daily Bruin suggests, unsurprisingly, that UCLA students received a substantial amount of information about the election from the Internet and social media sites. Eight hundred sixteen students were polled at five locations on and around campus, and we ended up with a margin of error of 3%. This was one of the questions and our results: Please circle the following places where you received a significant amount of information regarding the current election? Please circle all that apply. Television Debates ----------------------- 71% Television News -------------------------- 66% Word of Mouth ---------------------------- 56% Other...

• November 5, 2008
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MTV/Knight Choose or Lose Street Team '08 - Leaning Local

by Ian V. Rowe
2007 Knight News Challenge Winner

The premise of our MTV/Knight Choose or Lose Street Team '08 is that the path to civic participation and becoming a voter is different for everyone, particularly among today's youth. Frequently, young people disconnect the issues that concern them most, from the act of voting - on the premise that their individual vote won't make a difference, or that the news media nor the political candidates NEVER speak about the issues THEY care about most. The job of each Street Team '08 member is to determine what is important to youth in their states, and get young people engaged in...

• April 22, 2008
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Super Tuesday Wrapup: the MTV/Knight Choose or Lose Street Team '08 & the live mobile to web experiment

by Ian V. Rowe
2007 Knight News Challenge Winner

Super Tuesday was an historic day with incredible youth turnout at the polls (doubling, tripling and even quadrupling turnout from 2000 & 2004!) and so we were making our own history at MTV covering the youth vote in a whole new way - in this case, capitalizing on a new achievement in mobile technology, delivering real-time high-quality Internet-ready audio and video reporting from the campaign trail.

• February 17, 2008
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