Political participation via social media: a case study of deliberative quality in the public online budgeting process of Frankfurt/Main, Germany 2013

Pangolins are poorly known species despite their high demand in the illegal international trade. This study has been conducted to analyze the awareness of Filipinos towards the endemic Philippine Pangolin Manis culionensis and how much they would be willing to contribute to its conservation. The respondents were selected from the social media reach of the researchers. The results showed that most of the respondents know about the pangolin from mass media such as news from television. Social media is also a factor in their awareness of the animal. They unanimously agreed that pangolins are important ecologically rather than its medicinal value in the illegal market trade. Overall, the respondents showed a high degree of knowledge of pangolins and have favorable attitudes towards its conservation.

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Social Media as Alternative Public Sphere for Citizen Participation and Protest in National Politics in Zimbabwe

Advances in Social Networking and Online Communities - Exploring the Role of Social Media in Transnational Advocacy ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-2854-8.ch002 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 17-35 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Collen Sabao ◽

Tendai Owen Chikara

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Political Participation ◽

Public Sphere ◽

Citizen Participation ◽

The Political ◽

National Politics ◽

Social Media Platforms ◽

The Impact

The chapter examines and discusses the role and communicative potential of social media based platforms in citizen political participation and protests in Zimbabwe specifically focusing on the #thisflag movement on Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp. #thisflag is a social media-based platform that rose to challenge the Zimbabwean government over the political and economic decay as well as rampant corruption characterising the country contemporarily. While a new phenomenon to Zimbabwe and Zimbabwean politics, the impact and communicative potential of social media as an alternative public sphere was recently tested in nationwide protest stayaway organised through the Facebook and Twitter movement under the #thisflag handle/brand. This chapter discusses the manners in which such social media platforms impact national politics in Zimbabwe as well as globally, specifically looking at the #thisflag movement as a case study.

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Implementation of Social Media Concepts for E-Government

Smart Cities and Smart Spaces ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-7030-1.ch049 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1071-1091

Author(s):

Raimundo Díaz-Díaz ◽

Daniel Pérez-González

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Citizen Participation ◽

Smart Cities ◽

City Council ◽

Political Agenda ◽

The Public ◽

Partnership Model ◽

The Government ◽

Technological Platform

Some governments have proven social media's potential to generate value through co-creation and citizen participation, and municipalities are increasingly using these tools in order to become smart cities. Nevertheless, few public administrations have taken full advantage of all the possibilities offered by social media and, as a consequence, there is a shortage of case studies published on this topic. By analyzing the case study of the platform Santander City Brain, managed by the City Council of Santander (Spain), the current work contributes to broaden the knowledge on ambitious social media projects implemented by local public administrations for e-Government; therefore, this case can be useful for other public sector's initiatives. The case studied herein proves that virtual social media are effective tools for civil society, as it is able to set the political agenda and influence the framing of political discourse; however, they should not be considered as the main channel for citizen participation. Among the results obtained, the authors have found that several elements are required: the determination and involvement of the government, a designated community manager to follow up with the community of users, the secured privacy of its users, and a technological platform that is easy to use. Additionally, the Public Private Partnership model provides several advantages to the project, such as opening new sources of funding.

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Social Media as Alternative Public Sphere for Citizen Participation and Protest in National Politics in Zimbabwe

African Studies ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-3019-1.ch041 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 772-786

Author(s):

Collen Sabao ◽

Tendai Owen Chikara

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Political Participation ◽

Public Sphere ◽

Citizen Participation ◽

The Political ◽

National Politics ◽

Social Media Platforms ◽

The Impact

The chapter examines and discusses the role and communicative potential of social media based platforms in citizen political participation and protests in Zimbabwe specifically focusing on the #thisflag movement on Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp. #thisflag is a social media-based platform that rose to challenge the Zimbabwean government over the political and economic decay as well as rampant corruption characterising the country contemporarily. While a new phenomenon to Zimbabwe and Zimbabwean politics, the impact and communicative potential of social media as an alternative public sphere was recently tested in nationwide protest stayaway organised through the Facebook and Twitter movement under the #thisflag handle/brand. This chapter discusses the manners in which such social media platforms impact national politics in Zimbabwe as well as globally, specifically looking at the #thisflag movement as a case study.

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Mediatization of conflict in the social media era: A case study of Sino-Indian border crisis in 2017

Journalism ◽

10.1177/1464884919870329 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 146488491987032 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Shixin Ivy Zhang

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Actor Network Theory ◽

Social Media Platform ◽

The Public ◽

The Social ◽

Social Media Platforms ◽

Media Platform ◽

Central Argument ◽

Actor Networks

Inspired by the concepts of Arrested War and actor–network theory, this study has traced and analyzed four main actors in the wars and conflicts in the social media age: social media platform, the mainstream news organizations, online users, and social media content. These four human and nonhuman actors associate, interact, and negotiate with each other in the social media network surrounding specific issues. Based on the case study of Sino-Indian border crisis in 2017, the central argument is that social media is playing an enabling role in contemporary wars and conflicts. Both professional media outlets and web users employ the functionalities of social media platforms to set, counter-set, or expand the public agenda. Social media platform embodies a web of technological and human complexities with different actors, factors, interests, and relations. These actor-networks and the macro social-political context are influential in the mediatization of conflict in the social media era.

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A Social Media Big Data-Based Disaster Assessment Framework for Typhoon-induced Flood: Case Study of Typhoon Lekima

10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-6389 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Jiting Tang ◽

Saini Yang ◽

Weiping Wang

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Big Data ◽

Emergency Management ◽

Text Classification ◽

Text Clustering ◽

Assessment Framework ◽

The Public ◽

Source Data ◽

Disaster Assessment

In 2019, the typhoon Lekima hit China, bringing strong winds and heavy rainfall to the nine provinces and municipalities on the northeastern coast of China. According to the Ministry of Emergency Management of the People&#8217;s Republic of China, Lekima caused 66 direct fatalities, 14 million affected people and is responsible for a direct economic loss in excess of 50 billion yuan. The current observation technologies include remote sensing and meteorological observation. But they have a long time cycle of data collection and a low interaction with disaster victims. Social media big data is a new data source for natural disaster research, which can provide technical reference for natural hazard analysis, risk assessment and emergency rescue information management.We propose an assessment framework of social media data-based typhoon-induced flood assessment, which includes five parts: (1) Data acquisition. Obtain Sina Weibo text and some tag attributes based on keywords, time and location. (2) Spatiotemporal quantitative analysis. Collect the public concerns and trends from the perspective of words, time and space of different scales to judge the impact range of typhoon-induced flood. (3) Text classification and multi-source heterogeneous data fusion analysis. Build a hazard intensity and disaster text classification model by CNN (Convolutional Neural Networks), then integrate multi-source data including meteorological monitoring, population economy and disaster report for secondary evaluation and correction. (4) Text clustering and sub event mining. Extract subevents by BIRCH (Balanced Iterative Reducing and Clustering using Hierarchies) text clustering algorithms for automatic recognition of emergencies. (5) Emotional analysis and crisis management. Use time-space sequence model and four-quadrant analysis method to track the public negative emotions and find the potential crisis for emergency management.This framework is validated with the case study of typhoon Lekima. The results show that social media big data makes up for the gap of data efficiency and spatial coverage. Our framework can assess the influence coverage, hazard intensity, disaster information and emergency needs, and it can reverse the disaster propagation process based on the spatiotemporal sequence. The assessment results after the secondary correction of multi-source data can be used in the actual system.The proposed framework can be applied on a wide spatial scope and even full coverage; it is spatially efficient and can obtain feedback from affected areas and people almost immediately at the same time as a disaster occurs. Hence, it has a promising potential in large-scale and real-time disaster assessment.

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Implementing Social Media - Practical Reflections from County Governments During Hurricane Matthew

International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age ◽

10.4018/ijpada.20210101oa09 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 0-0

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Emergency Management ◽

Information Dissemination ◽

Public Agencies ◽

Media Content Analysis ◽

County Governments ◽

Content Creation ◽

The Public ◽

Facebook Pages

Social media is an important avenue for information dissemination and public communication in emergency management. Through social media content analysis and in-depth interviews, this study explores how county level emergency management agencies use their Facebook pages to communicate with the public, using Hurricane Matthew as a case study. The findings reveal some areas of congruence between literature and practitioner experience. The results suggest that public agencies integrate flexible social media strategies, which emphasize one-way communication when the public expects larger volumes of information and directions, and two-way communication when the public might have individualized needs. Furthermore, the findings show that visual content (e.g. pictures) are more likely to garner higher levels of public engagement on Facebook. Last, the study provides several practical suggestions for content creation and interaction on social media for emergency purposes.

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The Control of Information in Traditional Media through the Social Ones

European Journal of Language and Literature ◽

10.26417/ejls.v2i1.p107-112 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 107

Author(s):

Resul Sinani

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Prime Minister ◽

National Level ◽

Traditional Media ◽

State Institutions ◽

The Public ◽

The Social ◽

The Media ◽

High Level

The usage of social media by Kosovar politicians is almost absolute. Politicians of all levels have their accounts on Facebook as well as other social networks. They use those for various reasons, starting from contacting the voters and supporters during the election campaigns as well as during the time they are in the office, up to presenting their stands and ideas that have do with different issues of public interest. For many of them, especially for low-level politicians the social media, mainly Facebook, have become the only place where they express themselves, since they find it almost impossible to become a part of the traditional media, especially of those on the national level, like newspapers, radio or television. Whereas for high-leveled politicians, concretely the heads of main institutions like the prime-minister, the head of parliament or the president, who refuse to be interviewed and be present in political shows where they could face questions from the journalists or the public, they are using Facebook statements in order to avoid direct questions from the journalists about the political subjects of the day. By making it impossible for them to take direct answers through their journalists the traditional media (newspapers, radio, TV) have to quote the posts that the politicians are making on Facebook. The kosovar journalists and the heads of media see this tendency of politicians, especially of the prime minister as the lack of transparency, avoidance of accountability, control of information and setting the agenda of the media. This paper attempts to argument the hypothesis that the high level politicians, the heads of main state institutions in Kosovo are controlling the information in traditional media through the usage of social media. In order to argument this hypothesis as a case study we have taken the Kosovar (ex)PM Hashim Thaçi whose almost every status and update has been quoted by the media. We have also interviewed journalists and editors of Kosovar media houses who have expressed their thoughts about the subject, while supporting the hypothesis of this paper.

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Communication Strategies in Providing Good Government Education Through Social Media: A Case Study at the Parliament of the Republic of Indonesia

Psychology and Education Journal ◽

10.17762/pae.v58i1.822 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 58 (1) ◽

pp. 722-734

Author(s):

Anindya Larasati, Achmad Jamil, Rizki Briandana

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Good Governance ◽

Communication Strategies ◽

Communication Strategy ◽

The Public ◽

Government Education ◽

Good Government ◽

The Republic ◽

Depth Interviews

Objective: To analyze the communication strategy of the parliament of the Republic of Indonesia in providing good government education through social media.Methods: Case studies are used as a method in this research, and data collection techniques using in-depth interviews. The basis for selecting informants used a purposive technique by looking at the criteria for informants.Results:The results showed that the communication strategy implemented by the DPR-RI has shown success in educating the public regarding good govenment. The strategy of the parliament's news bureau to absorb the information needed by the public regarding the performance of the parliament is an important key to success.Conclusion: The good governance through Instagram social media was very effective in publishing the performance of leaders and members of the parliament.

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Tweet Carefully, Museums: A Case Study of the #decolonizeourmuseums Protest

10.26686/wgtn.17060621 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

◽

Natalie Liverant

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Adverse Effects ◽

Web 2.0 ◽

Digital Media ◽

Asian American ◽

New Technologies ◽

Fine Arts ◽

The Public ◽

Online Audiences

Tweet Carefully, Museums presents an in-depth case study of audiences and a museum using social media in the current Web 2.0 age. It explores online protest and controversy over an event held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) in 2015. This dissertation addresses a current gap in the literature centred on public use of social media as a platform to engage in museum-centred debate and discussion. At the moment, literature discussing new technologies in museums focuses heavily on an institution-to-audiences model. While this is indeed useful information, there is another aspect of digital media that has been largely neglected. In their case study, Gronemann et al. observed that overall, museums distanced themselves from discursive co-construction in their Facebook posts. The lack of engagement with audience can have adverse effects as social media grows in its popularity to mobilise the public in the name of social justice. “Western” museums, many of which have a history of fostering colonial narratives, can also be perceived as authoritative institutions. Museums need to engage more conscientiously with their online audiences. Unconsidered or insensitive engagement over social media may have adverse effects on institutions. Kimono Wednesdays was an event where the public was invited to try on kimono in Gallery 255 at the MFA. The MFA advertised the event on a few social media platforms. On Facebook, the advertisement drew the harshest criticisms from a section of the Asian-American community. The sensational attention on Facebook grew quickly into physical protest inside Gallery 255. This case study analyses a sample of the dialogic posts, comments, and replies left on Facebook during the protests. It also analyses a symposium organised by the MFA, Kimono Wednesdays: A Conversation, where a panel made up of academics, museum staff, and a protester discussed the various concepts and perceptions of the museum’s controversial advertising and event. This case study demonstrates that social media is a double-edged sword for museums, as it is a useful tool, but presents uncomfortable challenges. The key findings from this study show how content on the internet can be misinterpreted and how implicit bias can occur from any institution. As museums embrace Web 2.0 applications, they too must become more aware of their online presence and set in place methods of dialogic co-construction so as to better understand and communicate with the diversifying cultures that surround them.

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