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But deliberative empirical research has its own problems
The world is a heavily segregated place where we are first separated by the seven continents, broken down into many countries, then by cities, trickling all the way down to towns branching off into neighborhoods and individual homes that ...
This book combines theoretical and practical knowledge about key actors and driving forces that help to initiate and advance open data governance.
Data and Society: A Critical Introduction investigates the growing importance of data as a technological, social, economic and scientific resource.
Bringing together ten leading researchers in the field of deliberative democracy, this important book examines the features of a Deliberative Mini-Public (DMP) and considers how DMPs link into democratic systems
Intervention Strategies to Foster News Media Literacy Skills and Build Political Efficacy
We are an international network of organizations, associations, and individuals that develop, implement, and promote ways to improve democracy, from the local to the global level.
In this book, the narrator learns about the importance of rules in a community
This book describes how data retrieved from public open data repositories can improve the learning qualities of digital networking, particularly performance and reliability.
This book examines the role of policy expertise in a democratic society
Smart cities are now prevalent around the world, in large part because the smart city promises to create a more efficient, equitable, innovative, competitive, sustainable and livable community
Its key proposition is that, in politics, it is not only power that counts, but good discussions and arguments too
Global in scope, books in the series are characterised by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour
No other government-dedicated work has been found in literature that addresses this broad topic. This book provides multiple use-cases, describes federal data science benefits, and fills the gap in this critical and timely area.
This book explores contemporary urban experiences and how they are connected to practices of sharing and collaboration.
The book proposes an analytical map of developments in deliberative democracy (DD) that departs from previous attempts to explain them by using alleged "turns" (epistemic turn, empirical turn, etc
This book explores how digital media use affects political attitudes and behavior, and how this relationship is shaped by political environments across countries
Democracy requires a connection to the 'will of the people'. What does that mean in a world of 'fake news', relentless advocacy, dialogue mostly among the like-minded, and massive spending to manipulate public opinion?
This book is an invaluable resource for readers in the established fields and professions of design, architecture, urban design, and city planning as well as the emerging fields of urban technology and urban interaction design.
This book shows you how analytics can be implemented in your own milieu: What is the downstream impact of new legislation? How can we make programs more efficient? Is it possible to predict policy outcomes without analytics?
This book assesses the interplay between social media, political polarization, and civic engagement, focusing on countries with differing media environments, cultural specifics, and degrees of democratization
This book comprehensively describes the impact of modern technologies on political leadership by providing a new paradigm of the phenomenon of neo-leadership, that is political leadership oriented on creating both the image and political
The Emerald Handbook of Digital Media in Greece: Journalism and Political Communication in Times of Crisis presents the empirical applications of digital media in political communication and in a number of social settings including the environment, homelessness, migration and social movements
This book presents creative forms of sharing driven by idealistic positions and collective actions, thus offering new approaches to sharing of spaces and architecture, experience and knowledge, data and collective histories
This book contributes to this endeavour by bringing together cutting edge research on the theory and practice of deliberative systems
Describing data coverage for U.S. small communities via Census Bureau publications
The book features contributions that report original research in the theoretical, technological, and social aspects of geoinformation methods, as applied to supporting citizen science.
The state of open data today is a real mess.
Global in scope, books in the series are characterised by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour
What are your key Citizen science organizational performance measures, including key short and longer-term financial measures?
In revealing this history, the book provides a rich empirical look at the communication tools, practices, and infrastructure that shape contemporary online campaigning
This book critically examines ‘smart city’ discourse in terms of governance initiatives, citizen participation and policies which place emphasis on the ‘citizen’ as an active recipient and co-producer of technological solutions to ...
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This book provides a concise and usable overview of the practical implications of important public sector United States federal, state, and municipal laws and standards related to information governance, as they pertain to librarians, research staff, universities, corporate regulatory managers, and public-sector information governance professionals. It is the first in a series of two volumes addressing public sector information governance compliance matters from the perspective of our target audience. Topics addressed in the book include: the evolving role of librarians and the need for librarians and legal researchers to understand the principles of information governance, the importance of broad-based regulatory IG principles such as the Federal Records Act, the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 and 36 CFR Chapter XII, Subchapter B – Records Management, that have been promulgated by various federal government agencies in framing public-sector IG principles, a survey of interpretive surveys from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that further elucidate the core IG principles applicable to public sector stakeholders, case studies detailing the application of important IG principles by federal agencies and bodies, and a survey of important IG issues facing state and local governments.
This volume assesses the strengths and weaknesses of deliberative democracy
This book considers the radical effects the emergence of social media and digital politics have had on the way that advocacy organisations mobilise and organise citizens into political participation
This book charts this influence and describes the unique effect electronic communication has on organizations, communities, nations, and cultures--Provided by publisher
The production and consumption of news in the digital era is blurring the boundaries between professionals, citizens and activists. Actors producing information are multiplying, but still media companies hold central position. Journalism research faces important challenges to capture, examine, and understand the current news environment. The SAGE Handbook of Digital Journalism starts from the pressing need for a thorough and bold debate to redefine the assumptions of research in the changing field of journalism. The 38 chapters, written by a team of global experts, are organised into four key areas: Section A: Changing Contexts Section B: News Practices in the Digital Era Section C: Conceptualizations of Journalism Section D: Research Strategies By addressing both institutional and non-institutional news production and providing ample attention to the question ‘who is a journalist?’ and the changing practices of news audiences in the digital era, this Handbook shapes the field and defines the roadmap for the research challenges that scholars will face in the coming decades.
Information and how we manage, process and govern it is becoming increasingly important as organizations ride the wave of the big data revolution. Ethical Data and Information Management offers a practical guide for people in organizations who are tasked with implementing information management projects. It sets out, in a clear and structured way, the fundamentals of ethics, and provides practical and pragmatic methods for organizations to embed ethical principles and practices into their management and governance of information. Written by global experts in the field, Ethical Data and Information Management is an important book addressing a topic high on the information management agenda. Key coverage includes how to build ethical checks and balances into data governance decision making; using quality management methods to assess and evaluate the ethical nature of processing during design; change methods to communicate ethical values; how to avoid common problems that affect ethical action; and how to make the business case for ethical behaviours.
The Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a 2-day public workshop from December 11-12, 2019, to discuss the suite of data products the Census Bureau will generate from the ...
Public Policy Analytics teaches readers how to address complex public policy problems with data and analytics using reproducible methods in R
In other words, it is still “business as usual”. This book questions whether Web 2.0 could help enhance citizens’ political participation.
Featuring research on topics such as language learning, school governance, and digital platforms, this book is ideally designed for professionals, teachers, administrators, academicians, and researchers.
How Big and Open Data Can be Used for the Common Good
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