Political Social Media Sites as Public Sphere: A Case Study of the Norwegian Labour Party

Johannessen, Marius Rohde; Følstad, Asbjørn

doi:10.17705/1cais.03456

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“…One of such factors is to address citizens' needs rather than just to increase the number of followers [16], and to reflect citizen's feedback through social media in governmental change [12], [18], [40], [41]. Although, the studies analyzed make evident that many of such initiatives are being performed under the absence of real policy makers commitment and believes [12], [18], [31], [40], [41].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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Electronic Participation through Social Media

Alarabiat

Soares

2016

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance

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It is widely acknowledge that many of e-Participation initiatives often attract wider audience and face serious limited citizens' involvement. The use of social media has been seen as a hope to remedy such limitation. However, despite the recently adoption of social media the lack of citizens' involvement in e-Participation initiatives still remains. This ongoing research paper aims at producing a general overview of e-Participation through social media. So far, the latest research works on such topic have been predominantly focused on a political context of e-Participation, where politicians-citizens interactions and activities are the central interest of the studies. Little existing studies investigate e-Participation in its own right in government context. The findings also reveal that the majority of e-Participation through social media initiatives are more informative than interactive, since few initiatives have been found that aim to considerably enhance citizen participation in policy decision making.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Electronic Participation through Social Media

Alarabiat

Soares

2016

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance

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“…For inner party communication, blogs are used for distributing news among party members and supporters, while others are meant to reach out to a wider public. Analysing different online offerings from the Norwegian Labour Party (Johannessen and Følstad 2014), it was found that blogs whose contributors are mainly or only party members tend to be restricted in triggering debates when compared to sites that are also open to opposing political opinions. It has been shown by a broad network analysis of the online discussion forum of the Italian Five Star Movement that online discussion platforms provided by political parties and groups are not necessarily platforms for mutual self-assurance.…”

Section: Deliberative Quality Of Online Political Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

E-Democracy and the European Public Sphere

Hennen

2019

European E-Democracy in Practice

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The chapter starts with an outline of outstanding recent contributions to the discussion of the EU democratic deficit and the so-called "no demos" problem and the debate about European citizenship and European identity-mainly in the light of insights from the EU crisis. This is followed by reflections on the recent discussion on the state of the mass media-based European public sphere. Finally, the author discusses the state of research on the Internet's capacity to support the emergence of a (renewed) public sphere, with a focus on options for political actors to use the Internet for communication and campaigning, on the related establishment of segmented issue-related publics as well as on social media and its two-faced character as an enabler as well as a distorting factor of the public sphere. The author is sceptic about the capacities of Internet-based political communication to develop into a supranational (European) public sphere. It rather establishes a network of a multitude of discursive processes aimed at opinion formation at various levels and on various issues. The potential of online communication to increase the responsiveness of political institutions so far is set into practice insufficiently. Online media are increasingly used in a vertical and scarcely in a horizontal or interactive manner of communication.

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“…Furthermore, the majority of discussions around social media for e-Participation are more placed in e-Government and e-Democracy research rather than in the e-Participation field [53,54]. Another relevant aspect is that e-Participation through social media initiatives are more informative than interactive [14,40,44], and few initiatives have been found that aim at considerably enhancing citizen participation in policy decision making processes [33,53,54].…”

Section: E-participation Through Social Mediamentioning

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Electronic Participation with a Special Reference to Social Media - A Literature Review

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Estévez

2016

Electronic Participation

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Part 1: Theoretical FoundationsInternational audienceAs a consequence of the interdisciplinary nature of Electronic Participation (e-Participation), current research on the field is fragmented and scattered. The exciting blurry boundaries and the immature identity of the field are making difficult the understanding of the main domain themes being investigated, in particular for “neophytes” researchers. In practice, several e-Participation initiatives often attract a wide audience but face serious limitations regarding involvement of those who attract. Recently, the potential of using social media to address citizens’ involvement deficit has been subject of academic debate. By consulting 44 e-Participation papers, considered highly relevant to the aforementioned challenges, this paper produces a general overview of e-Participation research, particularly through social media. The findings show that the e-Participation field still faces the challenge of identity and strive for gaining wider recognition as an independent research area. Concerning e-Participation through social media which seems to be partly overlooked in the field research, the politicians-citizen’s interaction has dominated scholars’ attention and the adoption of such initiatives sponsored and driven by governments are rarely examine. Based on the findings, several research suggestions, which could play a significant contribution to advance future e-Participation research, are proposed

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Political Social Media Sites as Public Sphere: A Case Study of the Norwegian Labour Party

Cited by 5 publications

References 66 publications

Electronic Participation through Social Media

Electronic Participation through Social Media

E-Democracy and the European Public Sphere

Electronic Participation with a Special Reference to Social Media - A Literature Review

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