Maggie’s New Media Blog

Subject: Motivation of Voting
Discussion Topics:
-How will voters make decisions?
-How ballots impact the voting process? (Conducting a survey)
-What’s percent of the public will participate in voting? (Statistics and Graphics)
-To what extent are people voting on local issues or party political views?
Interviewees:
-Voters from different district (How they make decisions, based on Party or local issues)
-HKU […]

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Ms.Kwok is a local resident of Hong Kong. In this short interview with Ms. Kwok, she talked about the district council election candidates in Wah Fu Estate, which is a public housing estate located by the Kellett Bay, Southern District, Hong Kong.
Ms. Kwok is a staff in a local university, last time, she voted in […]

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According to the Oct. 16 news in Mingbao, there are 918 candidates have been enrolled in district council election this year, however, four have dropped out and one switch his constituency , so a total of 914 will run for the election. Compared with the previous 841 last year, it increased by 73 people.

The most […]

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Today I interviewed Tia in class as part of my Audacity demonstration.
Here is the audio file:
Tia

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The seven-day holiday week has become a virtual opportunity for the development china’s tourism market despite disputes about the rationality of the “Golden Week“, which has exerted great pressure on transportation, catering, hotel and tourism infrastructures, according to relevant experts. (Xinhuanet)
The National Day is a traditional festival in China, after The Handover in 1997, which […]

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The nomination for District Council elections started on October 2, Democratic Party and DAB (The Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong) firstly held ceremony on September 30, and there are more than 100 candidates arrived.
The Democratic Party sweared in the ceremony, “fight for universal suffrage in 2012″ as their election slogans. […]

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