Dr Colin Smith

Social Media and Society 2016
Jul 11, 2016

Description Ella Taylor-Smith presented the paper "Non-public eParticipation in social media spaces" at Social Media and Society 2016.
Paper: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2930974
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/EllaTaylorSmith/nonpublic-eparticipation-in-social-media-spaces

Abstract: 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.

Location Goldsmiths College, London

People Ella Taylor-Smith
Colin Smith

Org Units School of Computing
School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment

Research Areas Social informatics

Themes AI and Technologies

Research Centres/Groups Centre for Social Informatics

URL https://socialmediaandsociety.org/

Description	Ella Taylor-Smith presented the paper "Non-public eParticipation in social media spaces" at Social Media and Society 2016. Paper: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2930974 Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/EllaTaylorSmith/nonpublic-eparticipation-in-social-media-spaces Abstract: 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.
Location	Goldsmiths College, London
People	Ella Taylor-Smith Colin Smith
Org Units	School of Computing School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment
Research Areas	Social informatics
Themes	AI and Technologies
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Social Informatics
URL	https://socialmediaandsociety.org/

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