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.
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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.
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Celeste Young, Victoria Institute of Strategic Economic Studies, weighs up deliberative democracy,’ democracy deficit’ and the radical potential of citizen’s juries.
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Are backpackers an asset to rural communities? Human geographer, Ben Iaquinto, assesses public debate, backpacker tax and transient and resident community relationships.
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Second in our series of Engagement Primers, 54 international participation models to better map public participation in practice and theory.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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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