Democracy

- without democracy, the elite class with make the decision vs democracy people have rights
to make
- equal political participation

IT
- inform citizens for democracy

proposition
1. Quantity of information circulation rise
2. searching engine will organize the
information ( counter arguing point 1
counter argument)
3. majority speak up enhance belief
minority shut up suppressed belief (
spiral of silence thory)
Thus IT allows the silent minority to find
like-minded together
So at that by IT both minority and
majority can enhance their beliefbut btw
this causes polarization
* polarization is not good for democracy
cant come into concensus
opposition
1. Quality of information drop
Low quality information provided
2. algorithm is untransparent
Search engine optimization (SEO)
cookies
3. some people (e.g. grandma) can hardly
participate ( social group)
- establishment has stronger power etc
easier to accss
- technological capacity
e.g. google has saved your cookies
fb can actually save and own your
photos
such divide is shrinking over time
- good argument

7 Nov
market strong (commercial+PSB)
Political parallelism quite strong( co-exist with non-PP)
oriental daily and apple daily are the most famous strong PP\
- some extreme pp can perform extremely poor as well ( e.g. Ta Kung
Pao, Passion times)
Professionalization -colonial press ( sophisticated censorship indeed)
- prep for handover:grown strong
- after mid 2000s:setbacks ( over-commercalization
sensationally reported(btw TW more serious),self-
censorship) - self-censorship is a strong evidence for weak
professionalization, but now in HK u can see more and more
self-censorship
State role - PSB (e.g. RTHK)
- TV license
- cableless TV: so make use of air radiowaves
- radiowaves frequency is a public resource
 - government now claim that cant be more transparent , have to
protect businessmens rights
- to change the over-commercialization situation, you can only change
customers behaviour
- HK nearest to liberal model, similar to the UK model, reason can be because we are a
colony of UK, model is influenced by social and political context

essay
- building a better public sphere
today: pm as an example
Nov 21 Presentation (group)
Nov 28 Tutors feedback (group)
Dec 7 Essay due (individual)

1. Identify the problem ? List them out

2. Causes to the problem
3. Solutions
4. consolidate plan ( combine everything in 3 to make the maxillary arch)

Example
1. Ownership public ownership
2. Advertising ( try to get clean monet) subsidies/ crowd- funding/ donation
3. Sourcing citizen journalism scheme
4. Flack profrssional exchange
5. ideological marginalization