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Empowering Civic Participation in the Policy Making Process through Social Media

Authors

Robert Kleinfeld,Louay Bassbouss,Iosif Alvertis,George Gionis

Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS),Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS),National Technical University of Athens,National Technical University of Athens


Proceedings:

Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 6

Volume

Issue:

Vol. 6 No. 5 (2012): ICWSM Workshop Technical Report WS-12-04 (When the City Meets the Citizen)

Track:

When the City Meets the Citizen

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Abstract:

The Web as medium has a high significance in everyday life of the digital society. The circumstance of growing visibility of social media covers a high potential in the range of a more citizen-centric and socially-rooted policy making. These potentials call for novel tools with the capability to analyze society’s input and predict the possible impact of policies. The paper describes a prototype tool set for policy makers that utilizes social media technologies and methods to empower public engagement, enable cross-media platform publishing, feedback tracking / analysis and provide decision support.

DOI:

10.1609/icwsm.v6i5.14220


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Vol. 6 No. 5 (2012): ICWSM Workshop Technical Report WS-12-04 (When the City Meets the Citizen)