Electronic Participation

1. Front Matter

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2. Keynote Speech

   1. Social Media and Counter-Democracy: The Contingences of Participation

      • Peter Dahlgren

      Pages 1-12

3. Reviews

   1. E-Consultations: A Review of Current Practice and a Proposal for Opening Up the Process

      • Steffen Albrecht

      Pages 13-24

   2. Choosing the Right Medium for Municipal eParticipation Based on Stakeholder Expectations

      • Marius Rohde Johannessen, Leif Skiftenes Flak, Øystein Sæbø

      Pages 25-36

   3. A Communication Genre Perspective on e-Petitioning: The Case of the Citizens’ Initiative

      • Åke Grönlund, Iryna Susha

      Pages 37-48

4. Policy Consultations

   1. Citizens’ Evaluation of an Online Argument Visualisation Platform for eParticipation

      • Eleni Panopoulou, Efpraxia Dalakiouridou, Efthimios Tambouris, Konstantinos Tarabanis

      Pages 49-60

   2. PolicyCommons — Visualizing Arguments in Policy Consultation

      • Neil Benn, Ann Macintosh

      Pages 61-72

   3. Structuring Japanese Regional Information Gathered from the Web as Linked Open Data for Use in Concern Assessment

      • Shun Shiramatsu, Robin M. E. Swezey, Hiroyuki Sano, Norifumi Hirata, Tadachika Ozono, Toramatsu Shintani

      Pages 73-84

5. Case Studies

   1. Using Online Carbon Calculators for Participation in Local Climate Initiatives

      • Georg Aichholzer, Doris Allhutter, Stefan Strauß

      Pages 85-96

   2. Reference Process Model for Participatory Budgeting in Germany

      • Sabrina Scherer, Maria A. Wimmer

      Pages 97-111

   3. Getting Teenagers to Participate: A Survey of the Youth Council of the City of Lausanne

      • Olivier Glassey, Camille-Angelo Aglione

      Pages 112-119

6. Techniques and Analysis

   1. Model Based Critique of Policy Proposals

      • Adam Z. Wyner, Katie Atkinson, Trevor Bench-Capon

      Pages 120-131

   2. Online Communities Support Policy-Making: The Need for Data Analysis

      • Roman Klinger, Philipp Senger, Sumit Madan, Michal Jacovi

      Pages 132-143

   3. Exploiting eParticipation Using an Ontological Approach

      • Cleyton Slaviero, Ana Cristina Bicharra Garcia, Cristiano Maciel

      Pages 144-155

   4. Public Policy Formulation through Non Moderated Crowdsourcing in Social Media

      • Yannis Charalabidis, Anna Triantafillou, Vangelis Karkaletsis, Euripidis Loukis

      Pages 156-169

7. Back Matter

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Fourth IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, ePart 2012, held in Kristiansand, Norway, in September 2012.
The 14 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. This volume includes complete research work organised in five groups as follows: • Keynote Speech • Reviews • Policy Consultations • Case Studies • Techniques and Analysis.

• crowdsourcing
• eParticipation
• linked open data
• online communities
• social media

• Technology Management Department, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece

  Efthimios Tambouris

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

  Ann Macintosh

• School of Management, Department of Information Systems, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway

  Øystein Sæbø

Policies and ethics