Social networking tools supporting constructive involvement throughout the policy-cycle.

Taylor-Smith, Ella; Lindner, Ralf

Abstract

This paper describes the context and background of the conference workshop “Social networking tools supporting constructive involvement throughout the policy-cycle”. EParticipation initiatives are increasingly applying social networking tools and sites at the interactive core of their participation processes. This paper looks at these objectives in more detail. It begins to identify characteristics of individual projects and types of social networking tools that will need to be explored by practitioners in order to successfully apply social networking tools in their projects. A five stage policy-cycle is used to categorise these projects’ relationships with democratic policy processes and intended or possible political impacts.

Citation

Taylor-Smith, E., & Lindner, R. (2010). Social networking tools supporting constructive involvement throughout the policy-cycle. In P. Parycek, & P. Prosser (Eds.), Proceedings of EDEM 2010 - Conference on Electronic Democracy, May 7-8, 2010, Danube-University Krems, Austria

• Start Date: May 7, 2010
• End Date: May 8, 2010
• Publication Date: 2010
• Deposit Date: Aug 31, 2010
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 31, 2010
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Book Title: Proceedings of EDEM 2010 - Conference on Electronic Democracy, May 7-8, 2010, Danube-University Krems, Austria
• ISBN: 978-3-85403-265-6
• Keywords: social networking tools; eparticipation; policy-cycle
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3820