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Participation spaces. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Taylor-Smith, E. (2012, September). Participation spaces. Presented at Fourth international conference on eParticipation (ePart 2012)

A wide democratic view of participation and eParticipation informs research centred on citizens’ experiences of participation. Case studies of participation are conceived in the vein of work place studies: ethnographic approaches to studying current... Read More about Participation spaces..

Supporting young people's political participation through distributed discussion - lessons obtained from an EU pilot. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kimpeler, S., Lindner, R., Taylor-Smith, E., & Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, P. (2012, July). Supporting young people's political participation through distributed discussion - lessons obtained from an EU pilot. Paper presented at IPSA XXII World Congress of Political Science

Several studies recently identified risks and advantages to young people in using the Internet and explicitly recognise the importance of young people’s informed involvement in tackling these issues. This paper presents the approach, implementation a... Read More about Supporting young people's political participation through distributed discussion - lessons obtained from an EU pilot..

Realising the value of RiLIES: the research in librarianship impact evaluation study (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cruickshank, P., Hall, H., & Taylor-Smith, E. (2012, May). Realising the value of RiLIES: the research in librarianship impact evaluation study. Paper presented at 4th International Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries

In 2011 researchers at Edinburgh Napier University, supported by the UK Library and Information Science Research Coalition, investigated the extent to which funded research projects in the domain of library and information science (LIS) influence pra... Read More about Realising the value of RiLIES: the research in librarianship impact evaluation study.

Distributed Discussion: An Integrated eParticipation Model for Engaging Young People in Technology Policy (2012)
Book Chapter
Taylor-Smith, E., Kimpeler, S., & Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, P. (2012). Distributed Discussion: An Integrated eParticipation Model for Engaging Young People in Technology Policy. In Y. Charalabidis, & S. Koussouris (Eds.), Empowering Open and Collaborative Governance (181-197). Springer-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27219-6_10

This chapter describes an eParticipation model, designed to be especially appropriate to young people and complex topics: distributed discussion. It draws on the experiences of the HUWY project, which piloted a distributed discussion model, in four c... Read More about Distributed Discussion: An Integrated eParticipation Model for Engaging Young People in Technology Policy.