Social Advocacy, March 4, What Happened

We discussed the computer part of the press clippings file and decided it was technically too cumbersome. We are going to allocate the five points for that project to either the annotated bibliography or the position paper. The problems are with the public access section of the project.

We discussed Nuclear Nebraska and Chapter 4 in particular. This part was about the principle means of communication of the activists: the sign. The instructor showed two Powerpoint presentations to convey the sign technique used by the activists, which was the Burma-Shave model.

At the end of class, we examined three political commercials:

• Hillary Clinton's 3 a.m. commercial
• Obama response to 3 a.m. commercial
• an independent Obama commercial called "We are the Ones." To see it, go to youtube, type in Obama, and it will probably come up first. It can be identified by "We are the Ones."

Students are meeting independently on Thursday to work on their advertising projects.