Stolen snow shovels and good ideas: The search for and generation of local knowledge in the social media community

Konsti-Laakso, Suvi

doi:10.1016/j.giq.2016.10.002

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“…A specific online space where civic participation can emerge on a local level is through online neighbourhood networks (ONNs), in which neighbourhood residents appropriate social media platforms to exchange and discuss local information, news and opinions (Konsti-Laakso, 2017; De Meulenaere et al , 2020b), send and answer support requests (López and Farzan, 2015; Silver and Matthews, 2017) and mobilize others in the context of local protest (Gregory, 2015). As such, they provide community members with novel means to connect to their local community, develop local social relations and increase their sense of belonging (De Meulenaere et al , 2020a).…”

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Tackling COVID-19 from below: civic participation among online neighbourhood network users during the COVID-19 pandemic

Waeterloos

Meulenaere

Walrave

et al. 2021

OIR

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PurposeFollowing the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), many forms of bottom-up civic action emerged as ways to collectively “flatten the curve” and tackle the crisis. In this paper, the authors examine to what extent local online and offline social integration contributes to civic participation, above and beyond typical predictors such as news consumption and civic talk.Design/methodology/approachAn online survey was administered among 7,137 users of the online neighbourhood network (ONN) Hoplr in Flanders (i.e. the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium) from 8 May to 18 May 2020. Regression analyses were used to examine how local social integration, in addition to news consumption, civic talk and political antecedents, predict different types of civic participation.FindingsThe results show consistent positive associations between news consumption, civic talk and civic participation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, the role of political antecedents varied across different forms of civic participation. Further, the results point to the importance of both offline and online local social integration in explaining civic participation.Originality/valueThis study provides much-needed insight in the societal and democratic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The results confirm the importance of local social integration in explaining civic participation, while also advancing theoretical understanding of more established predictors of civic participation, such as news consumption and interpersonal communication.Peer reviewThe peer review history for this article is available at https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/OIR-08-2020-0379.

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Tackling COVID-19 from below: civic participation among online neighbourhood network users during the COVID-19 pandemic

Waeterloos

Meulenaere

Walrave

et al. 2021

OIR

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“…There is a wide range of academic discussion on coproduction between government and citizens. Coproduction in government is generally seen as a process of producing information with citizen contributions for better service delivery (Konsti-Laakso, 2017;Linders, 2012;Liu, 2021;Loeffler & Bovaird, 2016). Information contribution can range from designing a service to providing feedback to government about the service.…”

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“…This availability of tools encourages governments to gather local knowledge through citizen contributions. With the strategic and technical expertise of government and local knowledge sourced from various coproduction approaches, governments aim to comprehensively plan for service delivery (Konsti-Laakso, 2017). Thus, these practices can have a promising impact in improving governance.…”

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“…There is a current research gap in understanding how coproduction approaches in digital government can influence social issues such as democratic power, sharing control with non-government agencies, or emotional aspects like autonomy of citizens (Bates, 2014;Chatfield and Reddick, 2018;Janssen & Zuiderwijk, 2014;Johnson and Robinson, 2014;Loeffler and Bovaird, 2016;Thomsen, Baekgaard & Jensen, 2020). It is also crucial to understand how communications between government and citizens is evolving through coproduction on digital platforms and how information is being produced and used (Konsti-Laakso, 2017). In this paper we address this gap by answering how and why, local governments are practicing coproduction of spatial information.…”

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Coproducing spatial information: Exploring government approaches and motivations at the local level

Khan¹,

Johnson²

2021

JeDEM

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Recent government initiatives like e-government and open government have led to broader adoption of geospatial tools including mapping platforms to access, use, and analyze open data. These advancements open channels for coproduction in the form of sharing information, change notifications, opinions, or requests to government, based on citizen observation and local knowledge. Though current government initiatives have substantial potentials for coproduction, the practical adoption and implementation of such practices vary reflecting the purposes, contexts, and motivations of those involved. This paper aims to understand how local governments are following different approaches to coproduce information with citizens and what motivates local governments in this process. We report findings based on interviews with 11 cities from the USA and Canada, which reveal four main approaches: the collection of new data, observation of changes, collection of opinions, and observation of preferences involving both explicit and implicit processes. Although these four approaches result from interactions between citizens and government, our findings also indicate a key role to be played by technology and partner organizations.

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“…Specifically, we investigate the extent to which localized SNS use, conceptualized as digital neighborhood storytelling, is positively associated to neighborhood sense of community, while considering the mediating roles of community awareness and online sense of community. We investigated this in the context of the recent phenomenon of Online Neighborhood Networks (ONNs), in which neighborhood residents appropriate SNS platforms such as Facebook to develop self-organized neighborhood networks in which they reminisce about the neighborhood's past (Bouko and Calabrese, 2017), share neighborhood-related information (Gulyas, O'Hara, and Eilenberg;Turner, 2015;Konsti-Laakso, 2017;Nygren, Leckner, and Tenor, 2018), exchange small goods (Rufas and Hine, 2018), or fight for the preservation of local heritage (Gregory, 2015).…”

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Neighborhood hotspot and community awareness: The double role of social network sites in local communities

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There is a tendency in the literature on local digital media use and neighborhood outcomes to conceptualize Social Network Sites (SNSs) as mere transmission channels, thereby ignoring SNSs’ dynamics and limiting the understanding of their role in neighborhood life. Informed by Communication Infrastructure Theory and social media literature, we propose and test a model to investigate the association between the use of SNSs, appropriated as online neighborhood networks, and neighborhood sense of community. We administered a survey to Flemish online neighborhood network users (n = 590) and found that active localized SNS use brings about an online sense of community and community awareness, which both independently lead to a neighborhood sense of community. Based on these findings, we argue that SNSs, appropriated as online neighborhood networks, function simultaneously as neighborhood hotspots in a neighborhood’s communication action context as well as community awareness media in a neighborhood’s storytelling network.

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Stolen snow shovels and good ideas: The search for and generation of local knowledge in the social media community

Cited by 21 publications

References 31 publications

Tackling COVID-19 from below: civic participation among online neighbourhood network users during the COVID-19 pandemic

Tackling COVID-19 from below: civic participation among online neighbourhood network users during the COVID-19 pandemic

Coproducing spatial information: Exploring government approaches and motivations at the local level

Neighborhood hotspot and community awareness: The double role of social network sites in local communities

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