{"id":40435,"date":"2011-10-16T15:44:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T15:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/jose-hernandez-social-media-and-politics\/"},"modified":"2011-10-16T15:44:44","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T15:44:44","slug":"jose-hernandez-social-media-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/nasa\/jose-hernandez-social-media-and-politics.php","title":{"rendered":"Jose Hernandez, Social Media, and Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/63d79_astro.jose.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div><p><\/p><p><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/63d79_arrow.gif\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><b>Keith's note:<\/b>  Why is a former NASA astronaut (i.e. employee) allowed to pose on his <a href=\"http:\/\/joseforcongress.com\/\">campaign website<\/a> wearing the NASA logo? The last time I checked NASA was rather strict about the use of its logo - especially in situations where affiliations or endorsements might be implied by its use.&nbsp;And why is Hernandez using the same Twitter account - @<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Astro_Jose\">Astro_Jose<\/a> - with which he attracted over 200,000 followers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/home\/hqnews\/2009\/jul\/HQ_09-136_128_briefing.txt\">when he was a NASA employee<\/a>? (NASA's official @<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/nasa\/astronauts\">Astronauts<\/a> account still follows @Astro_Jose).  Did these followers agree to follow him because he was an astronaut or because he was going to run for Congress? the caveat <em>\"Astronaut(Ret) The opinions on this page do not  reflect those of NASA\"<\/em> was only added after he had this huge NASA-generated following. Seems a little deceptive to me. Also ... why does his Twitter page say he lives in <em>\"Houston, TX\"<\/em> when he is <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/onpolitics\/post\/2011\/10\/astronaut-congress-jose-hernandez-\/1\">running for a congressional seat<\/a> in California?<\/p><p>And just in case some of you folks get on the bus to crazy town and try and read something into my comments, if I could, I'd vote for him.  I just do not think NASA makes its policies clear on social media and use of NASA logos nor do I think that they apply these policies equally with regard to all of their employees - past and present.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/63d79_arrow.gif\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><b>Keith's update:<\/b>   I just got an email from Amber Moon, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's western regional press secretary. She noted <i>\"In 2009, Hernandez flew on the space shuttle Discovery's mission to the International Space Station and became the first person to tweet in Spanish from outer space.\"<\/i> Once again it is clear that a lot of his followers on Twitter were attracted as a result of a NASA-funded activity.  Amber Moon also asked NASAWatch to share this Univision story <i>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/univisionnews.tumblr.com\/post\/11327142646\/ex-astronaut-hernandez-seeks-congressional-seat\">Ex-astronaut Hernandez seeks congressional seat<\/a>\"<\/i>.<\/p><p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/63d79_QkxUDlP17v0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith's note: Why is a former NASA astronaut (i.e. employee) allowed to pose on his campaign website wearing the NASA logo? The last time I checked NASA was rather strict about the use of its logo - especially in situations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/nasa\/jose-hernandez-social-media-and-politics.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nasa"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}