Empowering Civic Participation in the Policy Making Process through Social Media

Authors

  • Robert Kleinfeld Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS)
  • Louay Bassbouss Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS)
  • Iosif Alvertis National Technical University of Athens
  • George Gionis National Technical University of Athens

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v6i5.14220

Keywords:

Social Media, eParticipation, eGovernment, Citizen Engagement, Social Media Monitoring, Data Mining, Decision Support, Cross Media Publishing, Policy Making, Policy Modelling

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.

Downloads

Published

2021-08-03

How to Cite

Kleinfeld, R., Bassbouss, L., Alvertis, I., & Gionis, G. (2021). Empowering Civic Participation in the Policy Making Process through Social Media. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 6(5), 20-25. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v6i5.14220

Issue

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

Section

When the City Meets the Citizen