Tune-in, tune-out patterns of political engagement
Mats Ekström and Adam Shehata’s study of social media queries whether low thresholds encourage tune-in, tune-out patterns of political engagement.
Sally Hussey
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Mats Ekström and Adam Shehata’s study of social media queries whether low thresholds encourage tune-in, tune-out patterns of political engagement.
4 years ago
Since 2012 Deakin University and Pozible.com have funded research for social good – research that may otherwise be sidelined by traditional channels. Fiona McKay, School of Health and Social Development, expands on the current campaign for food security for asylum seekers in a mobile fresh food market, the Food Justice Truck.
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Dina Graser, Senior Advisor at the Institute on Municipal Finance & Governance, University of Toronto and Pamela Robinson, Associate Professor, School of Urban and Regional Planning, Ryerson University, suggest citizen engagement processes can be mapped onto dimensions of “trust”.
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Jessica Topham discovers using complaints can be a starting point for positive engagement and problem solving.
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Participatory budgeting purports to improve transparency and accountability. ‘Participatory Budgeting in the United States: A Guide for Local Governments’ is a primer that explores a now popular form of participatory governance.
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Online community engagement software comes in many guises with a range of different options for engaging communities and stakeholders. As a minimum standard for any online community engagement software, here are the top 6 things to look for.
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Decision-makers are investing in data-driven practices and programs to achieve real social change where community members are not just recipients but producers of project outcomes.
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The Scratch online community addresses children’s civic engagement. Children and youth are provided a space to program, share, and discuss interactive media projects. A project by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab, members have shared over 16.3 million projects and 87.4 million project comments.
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In transport planning, locational accessibility measures offer insights into the possibilities of broader economic effects. Linking transport systems and land use, accessibility measures can transform complex technical information into representations more easily understood information for diverse stakeholders that can support co-creative planning.
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‘Citizen engagement requires good communication – but good communication alone is not citizen engagement’. Alec Walker-Love, Europe-based communications specialist with a background in urban mobility, reflects on a practitioner research report on citizen engagement and urban transformation.
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Portland, one of the world’s most sustainable cities, benefits from university-community partnerships on sustainability. B.D. Wortham-Galvin, Jennifer H. Allen and Jacob Sherman discuss Portland State University’s community engagement, teaching and service.
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The smart city comprises multiple facets and collaborations. Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Genova, Renata Paola Dameri, investigates the relationship between principal actors she identifies at its conceptual core: university, government and industry.
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Digital technologies facilitate new forms of civic and political engagement. Yet questions continue to emerge around online engagement and social change.
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Robert Cropf’s new book offers a practical appraisal of e-government’s promise to transform citizen-government relationships into a transparent and responsive collaboration.
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In his research into primary processes of public consultation, community engagement researcher, Dr John May opines that the 90-9-1 rule reveals underlying patterns of inequality are fundamental to community engagement.
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The notion of social inclusion in smart cities has given rise to the need for smart environments to support participatory innovation, where the ‘city as a platform’ enables citizens to co-create solutions.
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Citizens less politically engaged are mobilised by Facebook’s user-friendly aspects, contributing to participation through a ‘virtuous circle’.
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C21 public service suggests the promise of new media and digital technologies. Are virtual town halls and e-governments the future of civic society?
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Spatial vicinity is a major factor shaping citizen participation with geofencing and smart city programs mobilising engagement.
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Online participation is ineffective in advocacy for refugees rights and tends to be tokenistic argue Fiona H McKay and Matthew Dunn.
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