Public participation evaluation frameworks: USA
Public participation evaluation frameworks delineates 14 frameworks in the USA to better comprehend engagement methodologies.
3 years ago
A digital right to the city: who defines democracy in smart cities?
Digitisation of the city is heralded as bottom-up empowerment of its citizens. But just who defines citizenship in a hyper-connected urban space? Mark Dean unpacks recent academic literature that questions citizens’ rights in smart cities.
Mark Dean
3 years ago
Fake news: is it a threat to public participation?
Where satire attempts to undermine autocracy and prejudice; the worst of fake news feeds into prejudices and seeks to create community outrage and undermine public confidence.
Dr Crispin Butteriss
3 years ago
Citizen’s juries: panacea for policy ‘ills’ or transforming government?
Celeste Young, Victoria Institute of Strategic Economic Studies, weighs up deliberative democracy,’ democracy deficit’ and the radical potential of citizen’s juries.
Dr Celeste Young
3 years ago
Backpacker tax ‘fiasco’ reveals interdependence between transient and resident communities
Are backpackers an asset to rural communities? Human geographer, Ben Iaquinto, assesses public debate, backpacker tax and transient and resident community relationships.
Dr Ben Iaquinto
3 years ago
International public participation models 1969 – 2016
Second in our series of Engagement Primers, 54 international participation models to better map public participation in practice and theory.
Sally Hussey
3 years ago
Innovative technologies trigger engaged citizenry: Smart cities are engaging cities
From the emergence of e-governance, innovations of living laboratories to pokémon GO, Mark Dean unpacks recent literature around smart city technologies for twenty-first century engagement.
Mark Dean
3 years ago
Hard science of consultation efficiency: can ‘Effective Number of Issues’ improve engagement practice?
Can a ‘science’ of consultation improve engagement practice? Dr John May introduces information theory’s ‘Effective Number of Issues’ to better map efficiency of the consultation process.
Dr John May
3 years ago
Social media, public tokenism and asylum seeker activism: can Facebook provide ‘meaningful’ support?
While people use social media to cultivate a positive self-image, they can equally be interested in engaging in issues of social justice. Dr Fiona McKay looks at issues of ‘meaningful’ support of asylum seeker activism and refugee advocacy in online engagement.
Fiona McKay
3 years ago
Manufacturing engagement: no place for making things
Mark Dean, Australian Industrial Transformation Institute, Flinders University, continues his examination of government policy responses to manufacturing deindustrialisation in this two-part series: Manufacturing engagement.
Mark Dean
3 years ago
5 Practical Ingrediants for Building Fiscal Trust: Part 2
In Part II of their series on fiscal trust, Dina Graser and Pamela Robinson uncover five practical ingredients necessary for building public and fiscal trust and ask, what does trust mean and how do government’s gain fiscal trust with communities in supporting public infrastructure?
Dina Graser
Pamela Robinson
3 years ago
‘Likes’, ‘shares’ and ‘thumbs up’: Facebook and political participation, or what’s in it for the me generation?
Is Facebook more likely to encourage political participation among young people? Darren G. Lilleker, Head of the Centre for Politics and Media Research, Bournemouth University, brings into focus where, how and why young people engage – and disengage – with politics.
Dr Darren G Lilleker
3 years ago
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