The use of YouTube in western European municipalities

Ponte, Enrique Bonsón; Bednárová, Michaela

doi:10.1016/j.giq.2018.04.001

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“…To boost engagement, understanding what content types attractive is important [ 1 ]. Some particular content types might be more engaging than others [ 26 ]. Hence, identifying those types together will be useful in maintaining a fluid conversation with citizens during a crisis [ 27 ].…”

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Promoting Public Engagement during the COVID-19 Crisis: How Effective Is the Wuhan Local Government’s Information Release?

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Deng

Zhang

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During times of public crises (such as COVID-19), governments must act swiftly to release crisis information effectively and efficiently to the public. This paper provides a general overview of the way that the Wuhan local government use Weibo as a channel to engage with their citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on the media richness, dialogic loop, and a series of theoretically relevant factors, such as content type, text length, and information source, we try to examine how citizen engage with their local government. By analyzing the data mining samples from Wuhan Release, the official Sina Weibo account of Wuhan’s local government, results show that, despite the unstable situation COVID-19 over the crisis, there exist three stages of a crisis on the whole. Combining the behavior of the government and the public, duration from 31 December 2019 to 19 January 2020 could be seen as the development period, then the outbreak period (30 January 2020 to 28 February 2020), and a grace period (29 February 2020 to19 April 2020). Public attention to different types of information changes over time, but curbing rumors has always been a priority. Media richness features partially influent citizen engagement. Text length is significantly positively associated with citizen engagement through government social media. However, posts containing information sources have a negative impact on citizen engagement.

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Promoting Public Engagement during the COVID-19 Crisis: How Effective Is the Wuhan Local Government’s Information Release?

Yang

Deng

Zhang

et al. 2020

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“…Despite Twitter being an attractive tool for corporate environmental disclosure (Busch&Shepherd,2014;Dutotetal.,2016;Etter,2014),municipalitiesdonotseem toleveragetheopportunitiesthisplatformoffers.Nevertheless,asimilarphenomenon, adifferencebetweencorporateandpublicadministrationdisclosurepractices,hasbeen observed with other SMs (Bonsón et al, 2015(Bonsón et al, , 2017Bonsón & Bednárová, 2018;Ribeiroetal.,2016).Despitethat,citizensseemtobeinterestedintheenvironmental actionsthatpublicentitiescarryout(Ribeiroetal.,2016.Bonsónetal. (2019)point outthatenvironmentalcontentgeneratesthemostcommentsfromcitizens.Therefore, alackofattentiontoenvironmentalissuesfromthemunicipalitysidemightnotsatisfy thecitizens'demandforpublicentityenvironmentallegitimacy.…”

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Environmental Disclosure as a Tool for Public Sector Legitimacy

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Perea

Bednárová

2020

International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age

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The purpose of this study is to measure the extent of Twitter environmental reporting by Andalusian municipalities (Spain) and identify the determinant factors of such a disclosure. Thus, factors such as population, geolocation, political signs, and sustainable commitments were analyzed under the legitimacy theory approach. The sample consisted of the official Twitter accounts of the 153 biggest local governments in Andalusia. The classification of the environmental tweets was based on a dictionary based on the GRI reporting standards for environmental disclosure, and a Twitter environmental disclosure index (TEDI) was developed. The results show that most of the local governments in Andalusia (77.78%) have an official Twitter account with different levels of audience, penetration, and activity. On the other hand, it was found that environmental disclosure is very low. However, municipalities with more surplus budget and municipalities with a greater number of sustainable commitments networks tend to report more on environmental issues through Twitter.

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“…5b). Bonsón and Bednárová (2018) found that only 39% of the surveyed self-governments had an official YouTube channel in Western European countries. In our case, this share was even lower; however, it should be noted that the size of selfgovernments also played an important role here.…”

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“…The introduction of information and communication technologies (ICT) without corresponding changes in leadership, policy and administration of public affairs is unlikely to result in greater transparency and citizen participation in self-government (Bonsón et al, 2012). Recently, platforms such as Facebook, Twitter or YouTube have become increasingly pervasive in the communication strategy of public administration, including self-government websites, and have become the subject of several professional studies (e.g., Bonsón and Bednárová, 2018;Bonsón et al, 2017;Ellison and Hardey, 2014;Oliveira and Welch, 2013).…”

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Websites and social networks of communes in Slovakia: development and current state

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Klobučník

2021

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series

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One of the main features of today’s information society is the availability of data of various kinds provided by various companies and organisations. In the following paper, we focus on evaluating the dynamics of development and the current state of existence of websites of communes in Slovakia, which represent a database of their activities and serve as the main communication channel between citizens and self-government representatives. Another important channel is social networks, which are still enjoying huge popularity among Internet users. On the basis of the results of an online questionnaire that involved almost 60% of the addressed self-governments, we will point out the adaptation of self-governments to the use of social networks. One of the important tasks of such research is the distribution of the obtained results to end users. This is achieved through an example of a description of basic technical and functional specifications by using the website created by the authors. This website has the ambition of becoming a sort of central access point for all those interested in information about communes in Slovakia. By means of standard tabular, but also interactive graphic and map outputs, it gives an idea of selected indicators of self-governments in a user-friendly form, thus helping to increase client awareness of this specific issue.

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The use of YouTube in western European municipalities

Cited by 31 publications

References 36 publications

Promoting Public Engagement during the COVID-19 Crisis: How Effective Is the Wuhan Local Government’s Information Release?

Promoting Public Engagement during the COVID-19 Crisis: How Effective Is the Wuhan Local Government’s Information Release?

Environmental Disclosure as a Tool for Public Sector Legitimacy

Websites and social networks of communes in Slovakia: development and current state

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