Welcome to COMM 370A!

As the presidential campaign rolls on, our class will post observations, comments, thoughts, speeches, and other items right here. The goal for this site is to provide a space to converse about the campaign as it happens. For starters, take a look at the assignment requirements for contributing to the COMM 370A umwblog.

USING THE CATEGORIES

To avoid having so many posts clumped in one area, I added some new categories and moved a couple of the posts into the new locations.  Use CAMPAIGN COMMENTARIES for general remarks about the campaign, ECONOMIC ISSUES for your thoughts about how the candidates are addressing the recent bad economic news, CAMPAIGN ADS to talk about the video and televised ads the campaigns (and surrogates) are putting out there, and use DEBATES to talk about the upcoming contests (and to share thoughts about them after they happened).  And don’t forget — you can add new categories if you want!

SIGN UP FOR THE POLITICAL ADVERTISING PRESENTATIONS

Beginning October 23, pairs of students from COMM 370A will present an analysis of televised (video) political ads of their choice. Read the details about the assignment here.

Once speakers have paired up, and have made choices about the ads to analyze, the team should sign up for a speaking slot by going here. Please remember — if another pair is already using a particular ad, you will need to pick another one.