Week 10

The Blog assignment for this week focuses on campaign commercials. Visit The Living Room Candidate website and browse the political commercials. Select one which will be the focus of your blog. Make sure to analyze how the commercial is organized, what images are used and to what intent, what is the impact of the sound track, what is the overall strategy of the commercial? Consider what issues are being raised and how? Is gender an issue in the commercial? Be as specific and detailed as possible.

Week 7
This week's blog assignment relates to the first presidential debate, which will take place on Wed. Oct. 3 from 9:00 - 10:30 pm. It will focus on domestic policies. If you can't watch it on TV, please do so on-line. Your blog entry should deal with the candidates' performance. You should consider their responses as well as body language and any other relevant issues, such as staging of the debate, audience responses, etc. Make sure to state in your blog where you watched the debate.