After reading Levinson’s chapter 10 on Politics and New Media, choose a politician who you can reach out to via social media.
It can be anyone from President Obama down to your local hometown councilman.
You choose the platform and the message. Maybe you want to tweet your US senator your thoughts on gun control; send a Facebook message to your state representative about student loans; respond to a congresswoman’s Instagram photo?
The goal is to see how responsive elected officials are to their constituents.
Whether or not you get a response, take a screenshot of the interaction and include it in your personal blog posting this week.
On Tuesday, 4/21/2015 at 9:48 A.M. I responded to Mass Governor Charlie Baker’s Tweet with the following:
I have received no response. (Updated/Last Checked 4/27/2015)
Luckily, after some digging, I recovered a tweet I sent to Mayor of Malden Gary Christenson:
CO-320 New Media 2015 
This is great! Excellent question to the governor; I’m really surprised no one said anything back. (But that earlier tweet exchange with the mayor of Malden is kind of great. Did you know him before sending it?)
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Thank you!
I knew of him originally before he was elected because he gave our school newspaper a lot of ads and worked with Malden High School from time to time. Otherwise, I didn’t really know him that well before sending it, so it was cool that he responded!
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