Mari Basson

Health Reform Video Challenge - Crowdsourcing for Political Change

by Mari Basson

2009/12/06

http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/hrvcvideos/

The Healthcare Reform has been a controversial subject on America’s agenda for a while now. To raise awareness Obama supporters were asked to contribute their creativity and submit a video highlighting the issue. Nearly 1 000 videos were submitted. Organizing for America supporters and a panel of experts picked the winner out of 20 finalists. The video entitled “I Deserve Healthcare” by Eric Hurt won. 


 


“I Deserve Healthcare” is soppy and melodramatic and unsurprisingly a spoof video was posted on the very same day.  But let’s face it – it tugs at your emotions. Obama is no stranger to using social media platforms in campaigns and experiencing great success with them. I believe this will prove to be no exception, with nearly 1 000 videos submitted I reckon it already has.

Also check out:

 

About The Author

Make a comment

To prevent GottaQuirk from becoming spam central, we block the use of certain words like porn, sex etc. We apologise for any inconvenience, but can't spend our lives deleting messages left by spammy friends.

Captcha