Social Media and Participatory Democracy

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon E. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Participatory Democracy

Strong-tie discussion, political trust and political participation: A comparative study of mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan

2021 ◽  
pp. 174804852110290
Author(s):  
Minwei Ai ◽  
Nan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Participatory Democracy ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Political Trust ◽  
Use Of Social Media

This study examined the relationships between social media use, strong-tie discussion, and political participation in three Chinese societies, mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Our findings showed that strong-tie discussion is positively related to collective action participation across the three societies. More importantly, strong-tie discussion mediates the effect of political use of social media on political participation in mainland China and Taiwan, but not in Hong Kong. Furthermore, we explored the moderation role of political trust, finding that it narrows down the participation gap between those who use social media more and those who use less in Hong Kong and Taiwan, while enlarges the participation gap in mainland China. This study contributes to the theory of deliberative and participatory democracy by examining the role of strong tie in Chinese contexts and suggests that strong-tie discussion may exert a more important effect on political participation in a more collectivistic society.

scholarly journals The Internet, Social Media Gagging and Participatory Democracy in the Horn of Africa

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Damilola Adegoke
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Participatory Democracy ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Governance ◽  
Horn Of Africa ◽  
Text Book ◽  
Internet Service

Governments across the globe seek opportunities at regular intervals to exercise state-power and control over aspects of society. This is not limited to dictatorships and centralized party states alone; the beginning of the internet age saw the conflicts over who has rights over the control of the internets. A typical example is the case between the French governments and Yahoo over the former’s request for Yahoo to ban Nazi’s memorabilia merchant sites from French cyberspace. The judicial decision favours the position of the French government thereby setting precedence for internet governance.[1]It is one of the defining moments for the status of internet governance and cyber territoriality. Who has a right over the internet? Should states law be allowed to determine behaviours online? Who is to exercise juridical power in case of infractions? These questions have been addressed at different for a with the odds favouring states for obvious reasons; part of which include the fact that infrastructure for the transmission and distribution of internet access are domiciled in states and these provide opportunities for governments to wield their power against Internet Service Providers who might want to exercise independent agencies. Countries in the Horn of Africa are text-book cases of government seeking absolute censorship of citizens’ communication thereby infringing upon the rights of freedom of expression. This practice of leadership section discusses social media gagging and participatory democracy in the Horn of Africa.   [1]Jack Goldsmith  and Tim Wu, Who controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World(New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 3-6.

scholarly journals Social Media and Crowdsourced Election Monitoring

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 7-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisca Sassetti
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Participatory Democracy ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Citizen Engagement ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Election Monitoring ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Democratic Elections

With the rise of social media in Sub-Saharan Africa, citizen-led organizations in countries such as Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana have embraced crowdsourcing for domestic election monitoring, at a time when holding competitive elections has proven insufficient to ensure democratic elections. Yet, while existing literature focuses on the contrast between crowdsourcing and traditional monitoring, the effects of crowdsourced election monitoring on the transparency and quality of elections remain unaddressed. This paper makes a comparative analysis of elections in Nigeria from 2003-2015, framed within Sub-Saharan Africa, supported by a dataset of election monitoring deployments. Findings show that, in Nigerian elections where crowdsourcing was used, higher levels of election transparency were registered based on the introduction of the concept of participatory democracy and its practical application. This would, then, contribute to more peaceful and democratic elections. This research also sheds some light on the benefits of domestic election monitoring for citizen engagement.

Where Social Media Meets AAC

ASHA Leader ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicki Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Social Media

Making Twitter Work For You

ASHA Leader ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists

As professionals who recognize and value the power and important of communications, audiologists and speech-language pathologists are perfectly positioned to leverage social media for public relations.

Doctors employ social media

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Jane Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media

A Lesson in Taking Social Media to the Medical Level

2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (7) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
SALLY KOCH KUBETIN
Keyword(s):  
Social Media
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