Over the course of the campaign a large chunk of ACTIV’s narrative and in particular their opposition to Jeff has been housed in their weekly journals. The idea around the journal was to create an artefact that places our entirely fictional characters and their feud alongside stories written about real current news such as new legislation. Alongside tweeting about current events we attempted to blur the lines between fiction and reality. The same could be said about the physical placement of posters and graffiti.
In the journals I also have attempted to explore the different voices of ACTIV’s editorial team through stories they personally care about.

Fiona is the ACTIV member that writes about their feud with Jeff Shroud, revealing that she is the driving force behind the antagonism.
Martin typically writes about the importance of protest or passionately rebuking media coverage of certain events.
Demetri is then the voice of reason discussing the budget, gay marriage and his area of particular interest domestic violence. Through these articles I tried to set Demetri apart from the other members with his less aggressive tone. I feel that for the most part this has been conveyed but at times I felt that my writing regressed to my innate style that would have also come through in Fiona and Martin’s articles.

To gauge the general tone of a socialist publication I spent a bit of time reading similar articles on the Red Flag website. I also did some emotive language research on the comments section of Andrew Bolt articles.

Easter Egg Alert!
To explore these three unique voices, on the ‘Wake Up Jeff’ blog post I commented as each ACTIV editorial member. In this dialogue Demetri is concerned about ACTIV’s treatment of Jeff, only a couple of days after he first emailed him. In terms of narrative progression it provided a bit more back story around the divide that is present within ACTIV’s members whilst also revealing hints about Demetri’s sympathy towards Jeff.