Barriers and desired affordances of social media based e-Participation - Politicians' perspectives

Lukasz Porwol; Adegboyega Ojo

doi:10.1145/3047273.3047324

Barriers and desired affordances of social media based e-Participation - Politicians' perspectives

Lukasz Porwol
, Adegboyega Ojo

Insight Centre for Data Analytics Galway

Research output: Chapter in Book or Conference Publication/Proceeding › Conference Publication › peer-review

10 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

The high rate of adoption of Social Media technologies and platforms make them naturally appealing for engaging citizens. Interestingly, despite the proliferation of e-Participation platforms, overall efforts towards mainstreaming Social Media-based and citizen-led political deliberations are still limited. Consequently, there is a paucity of research on effectiveness of Social Media technologies as e-Participation platforms; barriers to their use for e-Participation and their potentials to reshape deliberations on traditional e-Participation platforms. This paper investigates the perceived barriers to e-Participation and affordances of Social Media from the perspectives of senior decision maker and political actors. Grounded in the analytical framework for the duality e-Participation, we designed an instrument and interviewed 10 politicians and decision makers at different levels of government across three countries in Europe. Our results provide insights into barriers and perceived affordances of Social Media for e-Participation as well as the necessary conditions for increased adoption of Social Media for citizen-led participation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, ICEGOV 2017
Editors	Rahul De', Tomasz Janowski, Rehema Baguma
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	78-86
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450348256
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3047273.3047324
Publication status	Published - 7 Mar 2017
Externally published	Yes
Event	10th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, ICEGOV 2017 - New Delhi, India Duration: 7 Mar 2017 → 9 Mar 2017

Publication series

Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Volume	Part F128003

Conference

Conference	10th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, ICEGOV 2017
Country/Territory	India
City	New Delhi
Period	7/03/17 → 9/03/17

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Keywords

Duality of e-Participation
E-Participation
Online political deliberation
Social media mining
Social media participatory democracy

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Porwol, L., & Ojo, A. (2017). Barriers and desired affordances of social media based e-Participation - Politicians' perspectives. In R. De', T. Janowski, & R. Baguma (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, ICEGOV 2017 (pp. 78-86). (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. Part F128003). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3047273.3047324

Porwol, Lukasz ; Ojo, Adegboyega. / Barriers and desired affordances of social media based e-Participation - Politicians' perspectives. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, ICEGOV 2017. editor / Rahul De' ; Tomasz Janowski ; Rehema Baguma. Association for Computing Machinery, 2017. pp. 78-86 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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Porwol, L & Ojo, A 2017, Barriers and desired affordances of social media based e-Participation - Politicians' perspectives. in R De', T Janowski & R Baguma (eds), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, ICEGOV 2017. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, vol. Part F128003, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 78-86, 10th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, ICEGOV 2017, New Delhi, India, 7/03/17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3047273.3047324

Barriers and desired affordances of social media based e-Participation - Politicians' perspectives. / Porwol, Lukasz; Ojo, Adegboyega.
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, ICEGOV 2017. ed. / Rahul De'; Tomasz Janowski; Rehema Baguma. Association for Computing Machinery, 2017. p. 78-86 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. Part F128003).

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Porwol L, Ojo A. Barriers and desired affordances of social media based e-Participation - Politicians' perspectives. In De' R, Janowski T, Baguma R, editors, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, ICEGOV 2017. Association for Computing Machinery. 2017. p. 78-86. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). doi: 10.1145/3047273.3047324

Barriers and desired affordances of social media based e-Participation - Politicians' perspectives

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