Producing the Political Analysis Content for We Are Awesome

Arguably one of the main reasons why I set out to make We Are Awesome, a website about trying to strengthen and reconnect humankind,was that I felt humankind could be more powerful if it were on the same page, if there was a place where important issues were disseminated and contextualized.

But to achieve this in some form is challenging to pinpoint, as there are a number of issues that all have merit to be discussed and explained better. All I know with the site is that the content was likely to be in the form of articles, as I enjoy writing and writing about issues that are likely to affect society. And this was a strong point going forward with the website, but as to what type and subject of articles that would be included on my website, was a matter of defining.

And thus, I looked at other established websites out there and a few that I read regularly, became the focal point of what I more or less wanted to produce and how it would be shaped on the page. BBC News - which I read almost daily - is structured as block of content on top of another, with pictures alongside the content to give it a visual presence on the screen. This design is simplistic and as such, gives the website's almost sole focus on written content, more power in suggesting the article's importance.

The Guardian, a news outlet, has articles which are shaped by its liberal political orientation, is fascinating to read and interesting to behold, as the media is known to air on the sensationalist side - but not the Guardian. This type of enticing and moral content, is what I had in mind as to how the main content would more or less be written like for the "Political Analysis" page; a page that would aim to shine a light on important political issues in society today.

I than began to research what is to considered important in this sense and came back with what seemed to make the grade. The 2015 General Election and conglomerates exploiting society in the name of capitalism were definitive of meeting this criteria, but I also wanted to try something different with an old concept and blend it with the a new one. And an article about kindness in the digital age was born.

A challenge with writing these articles is that I didn't want it to sound like it was written by an indulgent, pretentious, intellectual, suggesting what needs to be done in relation to these issues. That would put off a lot of people from reading more content on the website - and even navigating through it, in the worse case. So my aim with producing the content was to write on the aforementioned issues as to point them out and not state the obvious. It would not be wise to state to readers as to what needs to be done; they already know what needs to happen. This approach, I feel, does not insult the intelligence of readers and makes the articles produced, more readable to audiences. Not to mention all the more powerful.