Amanda Zhang-- lincoln dahlberg

          in class we discussed five competing positions and on the possibility of digital democracy. for
my opinion, i agree with lincoln's argument that digital networked platform can enable news forms of democratic participation. and also i think that deliberative is really convincing.
          just like message sender send text to receiver, receiver can directly see the message from sender without any other steps or procedures. so sender can find exact and proper words to say to receiver and receiver can understand clearly after he got the message. but in digital network media age, internet produce large amount of informations everyday, and sometimes, if a writer finished an essay, he needs to find somewhere to publish it and there are many options for him to find platforms. and then, maybe editors from different websites will do some changes for the paper, like consensus. they will add or delete consensus in order to accomplish the highest positive effect for their own benefits. and sometime people won't choose appropriate words to describe a thing that cause people are uncertain about the truth of the issue. here is an example of hong kong. since hong kong was managed by chinese government, many negative events happened in hong kong in decades. public media announced and blamed on hong kong government that it was a wrong decision made by them before and result in today's condition.
       

           also, because of some uncertain news, people are led to doubt their mind and beliefs. just like the last instance, people didnt know the whole truth back of some events and they followed the media to blame on government and they started parades to show their arguments to government. people were criticizing government without enough evidences. meanwhile, they were many citizens immigrant to canada or the united states at that time. therefore, after all parades and the truth came out, people appealed that internet or public media should be better concentrating on their jobs rather than spreading wrong and meaningless informations online. people suggested that works of public media should listen to what people are willing to do and hear in order to decrease the possibility of this sort off issue's. because internet and other digital media are the first form and resource for people to receive informations so it is significant to publish something deliberative and convinced.
          so, i think that deliberative is a really important element for public to know the truth of the issue and it is really convincing.