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Connecting
Americans to Our Leaders
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SNAP
SNAP is an extraordinary
pilot series InterAct co-produced in August 2003 that fully
integrated webcams into a live television environment for
the first time. SNAP may be an historic first: live Internet
video, a live satellite feed, and live viewer call-ins integrated
into a nationally broadcast, professional-quality live television
program. An especially significant step was the inclusion
of genuine webcammers, because webcam technology is used
predominantly by the young and is projected to grow exponentially
among them. The enthusiastic response from webcammers to
being 'on television' suggests a new kind of reality TV program:
one that lets real people have a voice on television, still
the most powerful medium of our time.
Watch the SNAP
demo.
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YVote04
Link TV Youth Vote
Election Series. Activists on webcams across the US joined
callers , connecting to live guests in the TV studio:
ROTC candidate John Anderson,
21, Durham, North Carolina, who enlisted to pay for college
at UNC Chapel Hill.
Working single mother Theresa Pardo,
29, Houston, Texas, who can't afford healthcare for her daughter.
Hassan Amin, 23, San Jose, California -
a college student who may be deported from the US for a faulty
visa.
Hosted by Nzinga Moore of
Youth Radio. Special appearances by: Dave
Matthews, Reese Witherspoon, Doug
E. Fresh, Russell Simmons, and
the Declare Yourself Poetry Slam.
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Interactive
Elections 1998 & 2000
Minnesota Elections '98
InterAct co-produced an innovative
debate among candidates for governor of Minnesota.
Diners at Lucille's Kitchen Restaurant, a group of
farm families in the town of Crookston, community members
in Duluth and a studio audience in St. Paul questioned
candidates about welfare reform, education, crime and
taxes. Co-produced with Twin Cities Public Television
and the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the debate was broadcast
live on KTCA-TV and Minnesota Public Radio. For more
see here.
KVIE-TV CapitolWeek 2000
InterAct worked with Sacramento public television station KVIE-TV on
two model interactive California CapitolWeek citizens' discussion programs. The
programs aired as specials throughout the state. They were designed to inform
voters of key election issues. The programs allowed Californians to participate
in televised political dialogue by connecting doctors and patients at a community
clinic, and a teacher and parent at an elementary school, to state officials
in the television studio.
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