Picture Perfect -Lincoln Dahlberg's Digital Democracy-

Lincoln Dahlberg believed in re-constructing the digital democracy. He discusses the four positions of understanding digital democracy within research and practical initiative. Dahlberg stated, "Democracy is based on two major assumptions saying any social formation necessarily involves inclusion/exclusion relations and associated discursive contestation, where discourse is understood as a contingent and partial fixation of meaning that constitutes and organizes social relations or practices." So with the use of these really fancy words, Dahlberg is stating the digital democracy draws upon the counter-publics and counter-discourse traditions and terminologies, contributing to their development. Dahlberg explains his position on the digital communication technologies as supporting the dominant and counter-public media.

Dahlberg enabled counter-publics and contestations in the case of the internet, digital democracy advocates the challenge of its increasing colonization by the state and other interests. Dahlberg argues that digital networked platforms can enable news forms of democratic participation.

Visual enthymemes are a daily advertisement accessed through social media or found through other print sources, such as journals or newspaper articles.

So you may ask what exactly is Nikon pushing with this advertisement, the fact that Nikon cameras can take sexual photos. The conclusion may end with "Buy this camera and you can take sexy pictures."

Enthymemes in the public eye often display sex in an introverted, yet explosive kind of way. Some memes illustrate the power of social truths, but will make you feel as if you came up with the idea yourself.

Memes in the social world constitute as the beginning of the digital age. They open a whole new cultural experience and spreads quickly around the web in various iterations and becomes an agent of globalization.