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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
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.
Public Policy Analytics teaches readers how to address complex public policy problems with data and analytics using reproducible methods in R
The Measurement Guide helps governments, civil society, and researchers to understand how to assess open data activities based on the Open Data Charter (the 'Charter') principles.
In other words, it is still “business as usual”. This book questions whether Web 2.0 could help enhance citizens’ political participation.
This is an especially powerful volume for those interested in the strengths and weaknesses of third world structures
Meanwhile, citizens may find themselves labelled as `ignorant' in environmental matters. In Citizen Science Alan Irwin provides a much needed route through the fraught relationship between science, the public and the environmental threat.
How Big and Open Data Can be Used for the Common Good
In particular, the following key questions are of primary interest: Urban fabric: How is 'sharing' shaping cities? Does it represent a paradigm shift with tangible and physical reverberations on urban form?
The Sourcebook for Political Communication Research will offer scholars, students, researchers, and other interested readers a comprehensive source for state-of-the-art/field research methods, measures, and analytical techniques in the
Citizen Scientists in the Classroom
New ZealandInvestigating the Role of Online Citizen Science in Primary School Science Education
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.
MosaicLab
Melbourne VIC, Australiawe’re a highly experienced team of facilitators and community engagement practitioners specialising in high influence and deliberative engagement
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).
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.
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
This book examines the increasing popularity of online citizen science projects arising from developments in ICT and rapid improvements in data storage and generation.
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.
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.
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.
Rethinking the city -- The urban commons -- The city as a commons -- Urban co-governance -- The co-city design principles -- Conclusion: New co-city horizons and challenges
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 book aims to give a comprehensive overview of all facets of the Smart City transformation and provides concrete tools, checklists, and guiding frameworks.
This book provides a new analytical perspective on the strategies, membership and communication management of political parties in Poland
In Citizen Science in the Digital Age: Rhetoric, Science, and Public Engagement, Wynn analyzes the discourse that enables these scientific ventures, as well as the difficulties that arise in communication between scientists and lay people and the potential for misuse of publicly gathered data.
Crime research has grown substantially over the past decade, with a rise in evidence-informed approaches to criminal justice, statistics-driven decision-making and predictive analytics. The fuel that has driven this growth is data – and one of its most pressing challenges is the lack of research on the use and interpretation of data sources. This accessible, engaging book closes that gap for researchers, practitioners and students. International researchers and crime analysts discuss the strengths, perils and opportunities of the data sources and tools now available and their best use in informing sound public policy and criminal justice practice.
The purposes of this study are to 1) examine how well the legislative systems developed or used by the U
Highlighting a range of topics such as social media and politics, civic activism, and public administration, this multi-volume book is geared toward government officials, leaders, practitioners, policymakers, academicians, and researchers interested in active citizen participation and politics.
User research is an effective strategy to gain a deeper understanding of your target audience — a crucial step in order to choose efficient design solutions and build smart products
The timely book takes stock of the state of the art and future of electronic democracy, exploring the history and potential of e-democracy in global perspective.
This book dives into the practical applications of AI, revealing its potential to enhance services, reduce costs, and boost efficiency in local government.
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.
The main objectives of this book are to expose key aspects that have a relevance when dealing with open data viewed from different perspectives and to provide appealing examples of how open data is implemented worldwide.
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