Confirmation

1. What is my thesis?
SNS election campaign should be allowed.

2. What types of source am I using to defend my thesis? 
I'm using expert opinion, actual examples and results of research.

3. Are my arguments mostly based on evidence, logic or emotion?
My arguments are mostly based on evidence because I will mostly use expert opinions and study results. There are no argument that is based on emotion but I think it doesn't really affect to my essay. 

My Confirmation

   The Thesis could be explained by showing evidence like actual examples and statistics and basic human rights.  First of all, we can  raise the peoples' interests in politics as doing SNS election campaign. According to statistics, about 63.4% of people do SNS while using their smartphone and about 35 % people have used SNS as a tool to encourage  other people to vote or post their own thoughts or comments on political issues. They also  repost content related to political or social issues that was originally posted by someone else.  Also, over half of the smartphone users read other people's comments on a social networking site about a candidate or the campaign in general. Like this, half of the people in Korea is influenced by political issues or election on SNS. Actually, Chang Duk-jin, sociology professor at Seoul National University said the use of SNS will affect the election results by up to 12 percent.In the Oct. 26 Seoul mayoral race, civic activist Park Won-soon overcame his handicap as an independent candidate and convincingly beat the Grand National Party’s Na Kyung-won, a success largely attributable to his support from prominent Twitter users. It is result by arousing the voters' interests and participation to politics by using SNS.  
    The second reason is that candidates and voters can communicate with each other by SNS election campaign unlike existing election campaign.  Lately, electorates deem the acts of the candidates that giving careful attention to the public and communication with them important. Therefore,  presidential candidates should be more attentive in hearing the citizen's voice and they should communicate with people as Kim Ju Sang who belongs to Korea Social Media Agency said. To fulfill the expectation of the public, SNS can be used strategically by candidates. SNS allows candidates to post messages, promise and familiar feature to citizens on it and show a candidate's human aspects and can nurture a sense of affinity. It can allow ordinary people to be a one-man medium sending their messages simultaneously to many people and response to the promise and posting of the candidates. Candidates can modify and improve their promise and get information related to what citizens want and don't want to the government as they see the response of the citizens to their posting on SNS. Consequently, SNS can help active communication with candidates and electorates so it can improve the politics and make better country.   
    Lastly, SNS election campaign  is the  expression of the electorates and it should be protected. Freedom of speech can be defined as 'the liberty to express oneself and one's opinions'. Freedom of expression is part and parcel of democracy and is a basic human right so people should always be allowed it. This fundamental human right on the Internet is started from the peoples' animated participation and every people who use the Internet can exert sovereignty according to the Jefforsonian Liberalism. If public authority like government interfere and suppress the certain information, idea and expression on SNS, it is the act that repress the freedom of expression. Actually, following the Constitutional Court’s ruling last year that said limiting election campaigns infringes upon voters’ freedom of political expression. SNS election campaign is one kind of the expression on the cyber space, therefore it should be respected by the public authority.