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Social Media and Public Participation: Opportunities, Barriers, and a New Framework

Social Media and Public Participation: Opportunities, Barriers, and a New Framework

James Patrick Toscano
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 17
ISBN13: 9781522576693|ISBN10: 152257669X|EISBN13: 9781522576709
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7669-3.ch072
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Toscano, James Patrick. "Social Media and Public Participation: Opportunities, Barriers, and a New Framework." Civic Engagement and Politics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2019, pp. 1454-1470. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7669-3.ch072

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Toscano, J. P. (2019). Social Media and Public Participation: Opportunities, Barriers, and a New Framework. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Civic Engagement and Politics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 1454-1470). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7669-3.ch072

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Toscano, James Patrick. "Social Media and Public Participation: Opportunities, Barriers, and a New Framework." In Civic Engagement and Politics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 1454-1470. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7669-3.ch072

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Abstract

This chapter presents social media as a legitimate form of citizen participation in government decision making. The chapter details the power of social media and the opportunity it presents for citizens to inform government decision making as well as for public agencies that require citizen input. The chapter also details barriers to social media legitimacy in participation, including current laws and public organization behaviors. Using Arnstein's ladder of participation as a theoretical foundation, this chapter proposes a new evaluative framework of public participation – a Social Media Participation Range. The framework offers a new evaluative tool for researchers and practitioners to analyze citizen participation via social media.

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