So I suffered a fatal setback with my midterm creative project, which probably should have been avoidable. Facebook applications are not as easy to use to steal information form people as I hoped, and I cant seem to design a way to direct enough students to a site and get them to fork over information in a mock scam. So I'm falling back on my critical essay idea. And the outline is as follows:

Media Studies Midterm Critical Project: Political Web Video

DELIVERY: Webpage with examples of video as they are discussed embedded within text.

THESIS: The proliferation of web video in changing how elections are fought and viewed by the public.

I. Mainstream Media: changes in media coverage
A. Examples of video carried on web and influential in major media outlets: Pastor Wright, Macaca Incident, McCain “Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran” song, Biden “Indian Accent” comment
B. Youtube debates
C. Embeddable Reports on MSNBC, and News archives

II. User submitted Content: what it means in terms of sharing opinions and giving voice in the political process.
A. Candidate girls (Obama, Hillary, McCain), Will i am “yes we can”, Obama 1984
B. Podcasts and opinion
C. Video smear criticism and proliferation of mistruths

III. Old Tape
A. Fact Checks: Clinton Bosnia Flap,
B. Old haunting video: Mitt Romney on abortion and gay marriage

IV. Campaigns using web video
A. Ads too negative, long for television
B. Interactivity: Hillary taking questions
C. Responses to attacks
D. Spreading messages: Obama’s speeches, Ron Paul
E, Fundraising, campaign websites

V. Expanding Audience
A. More traction for stories
B. Huge reservoir of candidate information