Electronic Participation

1. Front Matter

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2. Research Directions

   1. Mobile Participation: Exploring Mobile Tools in E-Participation

      • Maria A. Wimmer, Rüdiger Grimm, Nico Jahn, J. Felix Hampe

      Pages 1-13

   2. Targeted Policy Making by Transforming Social Networks

      • Efthimios Tambouris

      Pages 14-25

   3. Crisis, Innovation and e-Participation: Towards a Framework for Comparative Research

      • Joachim Åström, Hille Hinsberg, Magnus E. Jonsson, Martin Karlsson

      Pages 26-36

   4. E-Participation among American Local Governments

      • Donald F. Norris, Christopher G. Reddick

      Pages 37-48

   5. Modeling the German Legal Latitude Principles

      • Stephan Neumann, Anna Kahlert, Maria Henning, Philipp Richter, Hugo Jonker, Melanie Volkamer

      Pages 49-56

3. Social Media and E-Participation

   1. Social Media Participation and Local Politics: A Case Study of the Enschede Council in the Netherlands

      • Robin Effing, Jos van Hillegersberg, Theo W. C. Huibers

      Pages 57-68

   2. How, Why and with Whom Do Local Politicians Engage on Facebook?

      • Eirik Rustad, Øystein Sæbø

      Pages 69-79

   3. "Let Us Talk to People, Not to Computers": Obstacles for Establishing Relationships and Trust in Social Workers’ Online Communities of Practice

      • Azi Lev-On, Odelia Adler

      Pages 80-94

   4. Analyzing the Centralised Use of Multiple Social Media by Government from Innovations Diffusion Theory Perspective

      • Enrico Ferro, Euripidis Loukis, Yannis Charalabidis, Michele Osella

      Pages 95-108

4. Online Deliberation

   1. Approaches to Assessing Public Concerns: Building Linked Data for Public Goals and Criteria Extracted from Textual Content

      • Shun Shiramatsu, Tadachika Ozono, Toramatsu Shintani

      Pages 109-121

   2. Online Political Debate: Motivating Factors and Impact on Political Engagement

      • Asbjørn Følstad, Marika Lüders

      Pages 122-133

   3. You Say "Yes", I Say “No”: Capturing and Measuring ‘Public Opinion’ through Citizens’ Conversation Online (on the Russian-Language LiveJornal Blogging Platform)

      • Yuri Misnikov

      Pages 134-146

   4. Experimenting LiquidFeedback for Online Deliberation in Civic Contexts

      • Fiorella De Cindio, Stefano Stortone

      Pages 147-158

5. Back Matter

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2013, held in Koblenz, Germany, in September 2013. The 13 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of research in both social and technological scientific domains, seeking to demonstrate new theories, concepts, methods and styles of eParticipation with the support of innovative ICT. They have been organized in the following topical sections: research directions, social media and eParticipation, and online deliberation.

• e-government
• linked data
• mobile devices
• online communities
• social networks

• Institute for IS Research, University of Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany

  Maria A. Wimmer

• Applied Informatics Department, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece

  Efthimios Tambouris

• Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

  Ann Macintosh

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