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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.
In other words, it is still “business as usual”. This book questions whether Web 2.0 could help enhance citizens’ political participation.
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.
Intervention Strategies to Foster News Media Literacy Skills and Build Political Efficacy
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 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 relies on the conceptual model of Open Government (OG), focusing on transparency and, concretely, in open data initiatives at the local government context with the aim of improving participation and collaboration.
Citizen science has opened up the world of scientific research to anybody and everybody.
The Data Librarian’s Handbook, written by two data librarians with over 30 years’ combined experience, unpicks the everyday role of the data librarian and offers practical guidance on how to collect, curate and crunch data for economic, ...
Anyone can play a role in helping scientists collect data about the natural world. In this book, students will learn how the collection and use of data plays an important role in projects of all kinds.
Analyzing the Role of Citizen Science in Modern Research focuses on analyzing data on current initiatives and best practices in citizen engagement and education programs across various disciplines.
Nicholas Diakopoulos explains the present and future of a world in which algorithms have changed how the news is created, disseminated, and received, and he shows why journalists--and their values--are at little risk of being replaced.
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
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.
Learning Through Citizen Science: Enhancing Opportunities by Design discusses the potential of citizen science to support science learning and identifies promising practices and programs that exemplify the promising practices.
An Evaluation of Two Citizens' Juries
From tracking butterfly migration and documenting local biodiversity to hunting for comets using archived telescope images, this book encourages kids to make an impact as citizen scientists.
Two specific challenges are at the core of this book's argument that media literacy is the path toward more active and robust civic engagement in the 21st century: How can media literacy enable core competencies for value-driven, diverse ...
If not you, who? If not now, when? This is a unique and practical guide to activism which combines the latest thinking, experiences and advice from the world's greatest activists
Guides readers through nine steps to social change and discusses strategies on running an effective meeting, writing a petition, and lobbying governments
How do we ensure that implementations of Open Data Now products are done in a way that ensures safety?
This book examines the role of policy expertise in a democratic society
This book explores how digital media use affects political attitudes and behavior, and how this relationship is shaped by political environments across countries
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
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
This book contributes to this endeavour by bringing together cutting edge research on the theory and practice of deliberative systems
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
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.
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.
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