Web 2.0 Technologies and Democratic Governance Political, Policy and Management Implications

Web 2.0 has become the buzz word for describing social media available on the Internet, such as blogs, photo and file sharing systems and social networking sites. These Web 2.0 applications are rapidly transforming citizen-citizen and citizen-government interactions in a manner not seen before. In r...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Reddick, Christopher G. (Editor), Aikins, Stephen K. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 2012, 2012
Edition:1st ed. 2012
Series:Public Administration and Information Technology
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Web 2.0 Technologies and Democratic Governance
  • Section I: Government Policy and Uses of Web 2.0 for Management of Service Delivery
  • 2. Information Policy and Social Media: Framing Government-Citizen Web 2.0 Interactions
  • 3. Micro-blogging: An Analysis of Government Issued Policies and Best Practices
  • 4. The Use of Web 2.0 to Transform Public Services Delivery: The Case of Spain
  • 5. Towards a Gov 2.0 society for all: European strategies for public service delivery
  • 6. A Viability Model for Digital Cities: Economic and Acceptability Factors
  • Section II: Web 2.0 as Tools for Mobilization, Protests and Governance
  • 7. Online Collective Action and the Role of Social Media in Mobilizing Opinions: A Case Study on Women's Right-to-Drive Campaigns in Saudi Arabia
  • 8. Webmonitoring and Strategic Issue Management: Dutch student protests against the 1040-hour norm
  • 9. Web 2.0 as a Technological Driver of Democratic, Transparent and Participatory Government
  • 10. Emergent Networks of Topical Discourse: A Comparative Framing and Social Network Analysis of the Coffee Party and Tea Party Patriots Groups on Facebook
  • 11. Whither E-Government?  Web 2.0 and the Future of e-Government
  • Section III: Effects of Web 2.0 on Political Campaigns and Participatory Democracy
  • 12. Campaigns and Elections in a Web 2.0 World: Uses, Effects, and Implications for Democracy
  • 13. Measuring the effects of Social Media Participation on political party communities
  • 14. Social media for political campaigning. The Use of Twitter by Spanish mayors in 2011 local elections
  • 15. Government-Citizen Interactions Using Web 2.0 Tools: The Case of Twitter in Mexico
  • 16. Secrecy versus Openness: Democratic Adaptation in a Web 2.0 Era
  • 17. Blending social media with parliamentary websites: just a trend, or a promising approach to e-participation?