blog #19 Herring,Susan C., Deborah A. Johnson, and Tamra DiBenedetto. “Participation in Electronic Discourse in a 'Feminist' Field."

I agree with the statement that discussion online is more likely to be democratic than discussion offline. I think when you're online and not face to face you're more free and less intimidated to say what you want to say or get your point accross. In person, strong personalities usually dictate topics of discussion. You don't really have this problem online because because when you're online the physical intimidations like how one looks and sounds is taken out of the equation. Everyone is on an equal playing field and all that really counts online is one's opinion nothing else. This makes it a lot easier for someone to be themself and speak their mind.