The Voter's Guide Activities

The Voter's Guide Activities are designed to be included in online and offline workshops. Each activity contains facilitator’s instructions, learning goals and discussion question. Each activity is available as a printable PDF instruction sheet.

To help offset navigate the emotions that can surround the discussions surrounding data-driven campaigning in political elections, these activities are designed to interact with the subject in a playful, engaging and reflective way.

Activities

• Portraits and Data Doubles helps introduce the topic of profiling and how others can create representations of us.

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• Portraits and Data Doubles [Extended Version] helps introduce the topic of profiling and how others can create representations of us.

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• Political appearances: What does good look like? invites participants to think about what visual tools are used by politicians.

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• What gives an image meaning? prompts participants to question how the content we are present with online makes us feel.

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• The OCEAN Profile uses the online OCEAN tool to help participants gain a better understanding of how psychometric profiling works.

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• In their shoes: influencing profiles places participants in the shoes of an advertiser or marketer to understand how political ads are designed according to different profiles.

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• Reflection as political action is a series of mini-activities that invite participants to reflect and connect with their emotions while learning about this topic.

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The activities are currently available in English. If you would like to translate, adapt or otherwise remix the activities, please get in touch with our team at ttc@tacticaltech.org and we will be happy to discuss ideas further.

To learn more about the Voter's Guide workshop, which contains these activities, see the slides and facilitator guide.

Credits:

The Voter's Guide workshop plan, slides and activities were developed by Tactical Tech's Influence Industry Project in collaboration with Seerat Khan. Further credits for project support and direction can be found here.