Dr Ella Taylor-Smith E.Taylor-Smith@napier.ac.uk
Senior Research Fellow
Dr Ella Taylor-Smith E.Taylor-Smith@napier.ac.uk
Senior Research Fellow
Dr Colin Smith Cf.Smith@napier.ac.uk
Associate Professor
This paper focuses on the importance of non-public social media spaces in contemporary democratic participation at the grassroots level, based on case studies of citizen-led, community and activist groups. The research pilots the concept of participation spaces to reify online and offline contexts where people participate in democracy. Participation spaces include social media presences, websites, blogs, email, paper media, and physical spaces. This approach enables the parallel study of diverse spaces (more or less public; on and offline). Participation spaces were investigated across three local groups, through interviews and participant observation; then modelled as Socio-Technical Interaction Networks (STINs) [1].
This research provides an alternative and richer picture of social media use, within eParticipation, to studies solely based on public Internet content, such as data sets of tweets. In the participation spaces studies most communication takes place in non-public contexts, such as closed Facebook groups, email, and face-to-face meetings. Non-public social media spaces are particularly effective in supporting collaboration between people from diverse social groups. These spaces can be understood as boundary objects [2] and play strong roles in democracy.
Taylor-Smith, E., & Smith, C. (2016, July). Non-public eParticipation in Social Media Spaces. Presented at Proceedings of the 7th 2016 International Conference on Social Media & Society - SMSociety '16
Presentation Conference Type | Conference Paper (published) |
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Conference Name | Proceedings of the 7th 2016 International Conference on Social Media & Society - SMSociety '16 |
Start Date | Jul 11, 2016 |
End Date | Jul 13, 2016 |
Acceptance Date | Feb 29, 2016 |
Online Publication Date | Jul 11, 2016 |
Publication Date | Jul 11, 2016 |
Deposit Date | Apr 13, 2016 |
Publicly Available Date | Jul 11, 2016 |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Book Title | SMSociety '16 Proceedings of the 7th 2016 International Conference on Social Media & Society |
ISBN | 9781450339384 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1145/2930971.2930974 |
Keywords | Social media; eParticipation; social informatics; democracy; |
Public URL | http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/9871 |
Contract Date | Apr 13, 2016 |
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