Maggie’s New Media Blog

On September 15, 2005, a female student “Chen Yi” in Southwest University post an article “Sell myself to rescue my mother” in Tianya community with an anonymous ID, to seek for fund-raising to save her mother suffering from serious illness. From large-scale donation to insider disclosure, in less than a moth’s time, the […]

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The last week, I tried to contact with some interviewees to develop my advancer story about “Voting Motivation”.
Till now, the confirmed list is asfollowing:
1). Dr. Lam, professor in HKU. Her major research interests include political culture and political participation.
The interview will be made on Tuesday (Nov.6).
2). Dr. Lee, professor in HKU. Her […]

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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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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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PANG Kin-Kee, the chairman of the Electoral Affairs Commission, hold the press conference in Wanchai Electoral Affairs Department on September 19th, and showed the new design of the votes. Regarding the schedule for the Legco By-Election and District Council Election, Pang Kin-Kee have the different explanations from Emily Lau Wai-hing, the former full-time member […]

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Last Monday, in the New Media Workshop, actually, it was the first time for me to know Google Reader, Del.icio.us, and RSS. I was totally shocked by the powerful functions of Web 2.0 Technology. Especially Google Reader, which is really benefical for me to collect the top news from the resourses in the world […]

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Internet, the greatest invention in the 20th century, which brought us a fabulous breakthrough of communication. However, more and more people have began to consider the crisis in the era of new media, such as privacy, copyright infringement, etc.
In fact, similar problems in the traditional media also exist, but the trait of internet, IYFT […]

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