“Election game blog”

Presenter: Olena Syrinska

Abstact: I want to present “Election games blog”. It is a new project of the Ukrainian civic journalism site “Maidan” (www.maidan.org.ua). It started on October, 1, 2009 (before president election campaign) as a game blog where Ukrainian political analysts, journalist, civic society activist and users of the site can compete in their knowledge of the world history and also discuss political slogans and qoutations from speeches of widely known politicians. Blog received a total of 4067 page views across 1290 visitors within the first week of working.