Electronic Democracy Project: The topic of voting  (advocacy analysis and argument)

The Internet provides a wealth of information and if we know how to evaluate what we find it can provide us with knowledge unimagined even 15 years ago. It also offers previously unimagined opportunity for advocacy as junk mail and issue-orientated web sites contest for space. As part of the move to persuade citizens under the age of 25 to vote, many new websites have been developed in the last few years. Some of these sites aim just to register and inform voters, but others also try to persuade voters to vote in a specific way.

This paper invites you to select a voter-advocacy website and consider the ways it tries to appeal to younger voters of a particular kind. You will analyze the audience the site seems to be aiming to reach, and make an argument about the effectiveness of the site as an advocacy site (a website designed to achieve a specific goal or advocate a specific position) for that specific audience focusing on whether or not you think the site will actually appeal to that audience. 

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