MTV’s StreetTeam 08 Covers Super Tuesday via Mobile
by Darla Mack
MTV Citizen Journalists will be covering Super Tuesday today across the states using mobile technology and the web to keep people updated. Street Team 08 will be armed with Nokia N95’s and Flixwagon software to cover 23 states during the primarys.
This is a very unique use of mobile multimedia. As quoted by Bill Plummer of Nokia and Christina Norman of MTV:
“Nokia is proud and excited to see our flagship Nokia N95 multimedia devices being used so creatively to support and promote the electoral process,” commented Bill Plummer, Vice President, Sales, Nokia Americas. “Nokia Nseries devices are at the forefront of mobile technology, in this case delivering real-time high-quality Internet- ready audio and video reporting from the polls — the very way that first-time and future voters have come to expect their news.”
“Young people are taking hold of the political process like never before, and are clamoring to share and react to the stories as they unfold on the campaign trail in real-time,” said Christina Norman, President of MTV. “The Street Team’s Super Tuesday coverage will be hyper-focused on the issues and stories that matter most to our audience, empowering them to experience the day’s historic events in a whole new way.”
Now other than following the web (God forbid we should sit in front of our laptops or pc’s for a whole day), users can text the word STREET to 44686 on their mobiles or visit m.street08.com from their mobile browsers.
