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To research, I am going to use both Instagram stories titled Congress Camp from Ocasio-Cortez’s Instagram page, and analyze them for any similarities from the first episode of a gaming walkthrough from the youtuber RadBrad. I want to compare these videos and see if the same tactics are being used from a different successful source that effectively teaches people how to do something. Then I want to research the Instagram feed of Speaker John Boehner and compare his Instagram content to Ocasio-Cortez’s to see if her large number of followers is because of her down to earth walkthroughs that teach people something, or due to another reason. Essentially, I want to measure how effective social media can be for a politician’s influence if they are using tactics to help educate people as to what is going on in the government, which gives us a sense of ‘transparency’ and how successful a politicians feed is that doesn’t provide us that unique look into the government life.

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