Eureka! SMLC submits proposal to ENGAGE with Clemson Honors Students!

The Social Media Listening Center is recruiting entering freshmen from the Calhoun Honors College to participate in the Eureka! program.  We want to build a team to study the 2012 congressional elections.  We're particularly in learning about differences in the social media discourse between newly constructed districts (with no incumbents), recently constituted districts (with incumbents), and existing districts (with our without incumbents).

Our team is going to listen, analyze, and evaluate whether different patterns of discourse are manifest across districts - in simple terms, does having an incumbent or existing party machine change the nature of social media's impact on the election?

This AWESOME project holds the potential to connect offline action with online conversations ... If we can grab enough helping hands, we'll follow these districts through the election in November!