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An industry of consultants, facilitators, and experts of deliberative forums has grown over the past decades, suggesting that the field has benefited from a broken political system
Why are some civic associations better than others at getting - and keeping - people involved in activism? From MoveOn.org to the National Rifle Association, Health Care for America Now to the Sierra Club, membership-based civic associations constantly seek to engage people in civic and political action. What makes some more effective than others? Using in-person observations, surveys, and field experiments, this book compares organizations with strong records of engaging people in health and environmental politics to those with weaker records. To build power, civic associations need quality and quantity (or depth and breadth) of activism. They need lots of people to take action and also a cadre of leaders to develop and execute that activity. Yet, models for how to develop activists and leaders are not necessarily transparent. This book provides these models to help associations build the power they want and support a healthy democracy. In particular, the book examines organizing, mobilizing, and lone wolf models of engagement and shows how highly active associations blend mobilizing and organizing to transform their members' motivations and capacities for involvement. This is not a simple story about the power of offline versus online organizing. Instead, it is a story about how associations can blend both online and offline strategies to build their activist base. In this compelling book, Hahrie Han explains how civic associations can invest in their members and build the capacity they need to inspire action.
Unleash the power of open data. Learn how to implement an open data program at your organization and use open data for transparency efforts, innovation, data analysis, and reporting.
The essays in this collection use case studies to address four vital issues of modern social advocacy
From a perspective of practice, this research offers new insights into how organizations might recognize and more confidently integrate key design attitude capabilities that can result not only in social innovation outcomes, but also in ...
The Internet and "social media" may initially have been understood as just one more instrument politicians could employ to manage without political parties
Das Buch untersucht die Struktur, die Potenziale und die Risiken der Informationsgesellschaft und präsentiert den LeserInnen eine aktuelle und eingehende Analyse der wirtschaftlichen, technischen und politischen Fundamente dieser Gesellschaft im Umbruch
It is for these reasons that this is a worthwhile topic to be examined in this paper: What impact has the digital revolution of the German Pirate Party on direct democracy in Germany and how does it affect the transparency of an ...
Exploring cities as real-time, living, dynamic systems, and providing tools and formats including generative design and living lab models that support cities to become self-regulating, this book provides readers with a conceptual and ...
You can put your nose to a monarch pupa or listen for raucous frog calls. You can tally woodpeckers or sweep the grass for ladybugs. This book, full of engaging photos and useful tips, will show you how.
This second edition examines new strategies, tactics, issues, and grassroots campaigns, and revisits whether activists have learned from past mistakes.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Civil Society.
This edited volume discusses smart cities and smart governance within the framework of the 22nd century sustainable city.
This book provides a sophisticated and nuanced analysis of the role of mapping in contemporary global governance, and will be of interest to students and researchers within politics, geography, sociology, media, and digital culture and
Book offering insights on how open data can facilitate advancements in artificial intelligence.
Social Capital, Trust and Values, and the Mediating Role of Knowledge Sharing
This book traces an array of important political and social movements from their inception to their apex, with plentiful side discussions of notable proponents.
From the Arab Spring to the Spanish Indignados, from Occupy Wall Street in New York to Nuit Debout in Paris, contemporary protest bears the mark of citizenism, a libertarian and participatory brand of populism which appeals to ordinary citizens outraged at the arrogance of political and financial elites in the wake of the Great Recession.
However, even less research attention has been paid to co-design than to social innovation. This book explores the potential of co-design as a social innovation process.
This book addresses the potentials and challenges for Action Research supporting democratic alternatives
This is the first book to provide much needed guidance and case studies from marine and coastal conservation.
The emergence of sharing mobility is having a profound impact on urban landscapes
Providing much needed insights for theory, policy, and praxis, this volume will be of interest to academics and students of public affairs, public management, governance, public health, public policy, and disaster and emergency management,
Do we live in a democracy? Have we ever practiced democratic education?
The final section examines areas in which community citizen science may exhibit promise in terms of outcomes and impacts, discusses concerns that may hinder its overall potential, and assesses the roles different stakeholders may play to ...
It would be difficult to imagine how a development as world-changing as the emergence of the Internet could have taken place without having some impact upon the ways in which politics is expressed, conducted, depicted and reflected upon.
This book examines how international organisations (IOs) have struggled to adapt to the digital age, and with social media in particular
This book advances a 'naturalized' normative theory of deliberative democracy; one that is informed by an empirically-grounded analysis of public deliberation in naturalistic settings and in unadulterated form, and goes on to provide
This timely book brings together key thinkers and projects from a wide range of fields and perspectives into one volume to provide a valuable resource that would enable the reader to take their own critical position within the topic.
This volume explores the nature of the Internet's impact on civil society, addressing the following central questions: is the Internet qualitatively different from the more traditional forms of the media? has the Internet demonstrated real
This insightful book explores the citizen-government relation, as mediated through artificial intelligence (AI).
Governments have an opportunity to harness big data solutions to improve productivity, performance and innovation in service delivery and policymaking processes.
Twenty-eight chapters from senior and junior social media scholars cover war, insurrections, revolutions, and quests for social justice through case studies of Cuba, Georgia, Egypt, India, Iran, Jordan, Thailand, Tunisia, and the United
Bringing together perspectives from around the world, this volume examines emerging forms of citizen participation in the face of the evolving logics of political communication, and provides a unique and original focus on the gap which ...
Starting from the 1980s, this book provides the first, complete history of the idea of deliberative democracy, analysing its relationship with the earlier idea, and practices, of participatory democracy in the 1960s and 1970s.
This book is about the principles behind the open government data movement and its development in the United States.
However, this book also shows that citizens can become disappointed by the little decision-making power they are granted, as they leave the process often more cynical than before.
In community citizen science, laypeople control research, working with professional scientists and performing research on their own. This report describes its potential uses, implementation needs and challenges, and ways to effect change.
This book examines the increasing popularity of online citizen science projects arising from developments in ICT and rapid improvements in data storage and generation.
Publishing a critical-examination book analyzing the environmental, social, and political costs of artificial intelligence.
Social media allows people to stay connected and share news quickly. How Social Media Impacts News examines the benefits of spreading news fast, but it also highlights the dangers of incomplete or fake stories going viral on social media.
In light of the increased utilization of information technologies, such as social media and the ‘Internet of Things,’ this book investigates how this digital transformation process creates new challenges and opportunities for political
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