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310AAD: Meeting with Simon

After I had sent what I had written so far for my dissertation, Simon offered to have a meeting about my work. I took this opportunity to do a voice recording of the meeting and later used that to be transcribed into a written document, this was used as a development tool. Below is what was said during the meeting. I have highlighted different sections to make it easier for me to understand. Yellow: feedback about what I have done Blue: information/ sources to consider adding into the dissertation Purple:  how I could frame/ redirect my dissertation for the better Green:  possible new dissertation question if I was to follow his feedback Dr Simon Bells 1-2-1 feedback: ·        Why are you doing literature review? It doesn’t say that you have to do that in the brief. Don’t call it a literature review when it is technically not that ·         This is well researched and committed, but I cannot see how you will frame it in 4,500 words. First ideas about topics and argu

310AAD: Draft to Simon

I decide to get more detailed feedback from Simon Bell by emailing him how much I had currently written. This is what I had sent him. Can design strategy make a Political Campaign more successful? Introduction: Political campaigns have always seemed to follow traditional communications strategies and persuasion techniques. They constantly continue using the same tactics, believing that, what has worked previously will work again. However, political campaigns are now entering a new era of new media platforms. This causes new challenges due to changing demographics, social networking, and divided communities. Their biggest challenge today is innovation and communication strategies, which can target new voters and develop new technology strategies for fundraising needs. There are now new opportunities for persuasion and engagement of the voters.  Campaigns that invest in new approaches to meet these obstacles, will benefit from the impact. Political campaigns can take inspiration fr