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TLDR: Video Automation Platform Informing Voters About Local Politics

Project tags:

community engagement & outreach

information literacy

social media

Project poster

Millennials have the lowest voter turnout, despite being the 2nd largest generation of voters. Having identified that millennials are largely unsatisfied with their knowledge in local politics, our project addresses bottlenecks in the political education pipeline. We aim to alleviate voting friction for young adults by providing sharable, eye-catching content, that passively informs viewers on relevant political issues. TL;DR is an automated platform that generates succinct, engaging videos from user input. Government officials can input state initiative information, and create videos that display the given data in an engaging, informative manner, that can easily be distributed on social media.

Project participants:

Cherie Ruan

Informatics

Justin McKissick

Informatics

Matthew Farmer

Informatics

Anton Paras

Informatics