24 de out. de 2013

Dr Helen Kennedy Wins AHRC Fellowship

Dr Helen Kennedy Wins AHRC Fellowship

October 24th, 2013
helen-kennedy
Dr Helen Kennedy has been awarded a prestigious AHRC Fellowship for her project, ‘Understanding Social Media Monitoring’. The main aim of the Fellowship is to complete, write up and disseminate research which develops understanding of the current phenomena of social media monitoring, social media data analysis and the role they play in the production of social life. It will involve completing a book, already under contract with Palgrave Macmillan, entitled Social Media Monitoring and the Production of Social Life. The Fellowship will run from 1st Feb 2014 for eighteen months.

26 de jul. de 2013

Participatório

Twiplomacy

"Estudo Twiplomacy, realizado pela Burson-Marsteller, é lançado hoje mundialmente, mostrando como os líderes de governo de 153 países utilizam o Twitter. 
É possível ver quem são os mais seguidos, os mais ativos, os mais bem conectados com outros governos, e aqueles que mais dialogam com seus seguidores. 
No Brasil, o perfil @dilmabr, apesar de inativo desde dezembro de 2010, continua ganhando seguidores, e já é o 4º mais seguido entre os líderes latino-americanos; o 14º entre as 505 contas de Twitter analisadas no mundo."

O estudo completo está em:


24 de jul. de 2013

Dica de curso online

Apresento a minha plataforma para cursos interdisciplinares on-line na área de Tecnologia Digital, Comunicação e Ciência Cognitiva.
Ofereço inicialmente um curso gratuito: Introdução à interdisciplinariedade entre Tecnologia Digital e Comunicação Social (vagas limitadas: 20 alunos)

O curso é voltado para pesquisadores iniciantes que desejam compreender e realizar pesquisas nessa área tendo como bases teóricas a Cibernética e a Filosofia da Tecnologia.

www.cursos.walterlima.net



19 de jul. de 2013

Cursos e programas

Programa de participação do governo federal: http://www.psocial.sg.gov.br/
Curso sobre midias sociais na universidade de Michigan: https://www.coursera.org/course/sna


20 de jun. de 2013

A ver

Um conjunto de organizações (da Rede pela Transparência e Participação Social) que acompanha o processo OGP está propondo uma avaliação coletiva das propostas feitas pela sociedade civil que entraram ou não no 2º Plano de Ação brasileiro -- a tabela com as pessoas e organizações que estão se propondo a "adotar" propostas está aqui: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoK-4FF5r_JrdE1TRGFUckxhdExabVpxc01RNXBsS0E#gid=0; o pad onde as propostas serão avaliadas, aqui: http://okfnpad.org/devolutivaOGP

O texto abaixo procura explicar todo o processo; peço que ajudem a circular em suas redes para que organizações e pessoas que trabalham com os diferentes temas (saúde, educação, direitos humanos, direito do consumidor, transparência, participação, dados abertos, controle social, justiça, legislativo, enfim...) se apropriem da discussão e possam contribuir também.  

13 de jun. de 2013

LEA

Taí uma boa dica do Prof. Codato: Laboratório de Estatística Aplicada

O Laboratório de Estatística Aplicada (LEA) é um projeto de extensão vinculado ao departamento de Estatística que presta assessoria estatística aos pesquisadores da UFPR e de outras instituições de ensino e pesquisa.
Nos últimos três anos, foram atendidos pelo projeto mais de uma centena de pesquisadores, buscando auxílio quanto ao planejamento ou execução de seus estudos, análises de dados, esclarecimentos de dúvidas ou outros tipos de orientações. Professores e alunos da UFPR interessados no auxílio do LEA para a realização de suas pesquisas podem obter maiores informações e se inscrever diretamente na página do projeto.

www.lea.ufpr.br

Bib

O primeiro número do Political Science Research and Methods (Cambridge) está com acesso gratuito, sendo que um dos artigos pode lhes interessar: Voting Made Safe and Easy: The Impact of e­voting on Citizen Perceptions.

5 de jun. de 2013

Bib: Anais do VII Colóquio Habermas online

Anais do VIII Colóquio Habermas, organizado pelo Prof. Dr. Clóvis Montenegro de Lima em 2012.  <http://dci.ccsa.ufpb.br/lti/?LTi_eBooks>

Anais do Compós estão online

Compós acontecendo agora. O GT de Cibercultura terá transmissão ao vivo pelo link:

O restante não terá transmissão ao vivo, mas vocês poderão acompanhar pelo Twitter oficial do evento. @compos2013

Recomendo ainda seguirem as hashtags dos dois GTs mais relacionados à lista: #GTPolítica e #GTcibert

Aqui os anais do evento:

4 de jun. de 2013

Interesting paper 'bout twittology

"[...] para desenvolver um método inicial para modelar e simular as interações entre os usuários de redes sociais, foram coletadas mensagens publicadas por 25 mil pessoas nas redes no Twitter do presidente dos Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, e de seu adversário político, Mitt Romney, em outubro de 2012, último mês da recente campanha eleitoral presidencial norte-americana.
Os pesquisadores analisaram o conteúdo das mensagens e o comportamento dos usuários nas redes de Obama e Romney, de modo a identificar padrões de ações, a frequência com que postavam mensagens, se eram mais positivas ou negativas e qual a influência dessas mensagens sobre outros usuários."

3 de jun. de 2013

30 de mai. de 2013

Great hint by Tiago Peixoto

Call for Chapters: Advanced ICT Integration for Governance and Policy Modeling: Sharing policy decisions in the digital world

Here in Brazil could be more initiatives like that:
Call for Chapters: Advanced ICT Integration for Governance and Policy Modeling: Sharing policy decisions in the digital world


Important Dates
June 30, 2013: Proposal Submission Deadline
July 30, 2013: Notification of Acceptance
October 30, 2013: Full Chapter Submission
December 15, 2013: Notification and Review Results
January 31, 2014: Camera Ready Submission
March 15, 2014: Final Deadline

Editors
Peter Sonntagbauer (Cellent AG, Austria)
Kawa Nazemi (Fraunhofer IGD, Germany)
Susanne Sonntagbauer (Cellent AG, Austria)
Giorgio Prister (Major Cities of Europe , Italy)
Dirk Burkhardt (Fraunhofer IGD, Germany)

Introduction
This book deals with the use of advanced ICT technologies in the policy lifecycle and decision making of governments. The use of ICT support in policy design, modeling and implementation (“e-Policy”) ensures a two-way communication protocol between citizens and governments during the whole lifecycle of a policy.

The methods and the ICT tools to support the policy lifecycle have drastically changed with the emergence of social media, advanced simulation techniques, open government data, big data, opinion mining, advanced text analytics and visualization, amongst others.


Within the FP7 research program several projects have focused on different technologies and use cases. For the first time the “Future Policy Modeling” Project (FUPOL), a large scale integrated project funded under the 7th framework program of the European Union, has provided a complete detailed policy lifecycle model, linked each step to new ICT technologies and explained its benefits for governments, citizens and other stakeholders. It has also outlined how different available technologies can be integrated in such a model that fit into ICT-infrastructures of governments.

Número especial da Political Analysis sobre Big Data

Interessante número da revista sobre Big Data: http://pan.oxfordjournals.org/content/current

29 de mai. de 2013

Very good Rafa's recommendation

Very good Rafa recommendation with nice presentation by Tiago Peixoto.

The CeDEM13 Conference for eDemocracy and Open Government was held 20-23
May 2013 in Krems and saw keynotes held by Beth Noveck, Karine Nahon,
Johna Carlo Bertot and Tiago Peixoto. Presenters and attendees came from
23 countries, allowing for interesting conversations and networking
opportunities.

If you were unable to attend, then you can read the summary on our
blog
http://digitalgovernment.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/summary-cedem13/ The
blog
covers all the keynotes, the presenters, the sessions, the ppts.!
Or take a look at the photos
https://secure.flickr.com/photos/e-governance/sets/72157633602959048/
or
and watch the films: http://www.youtube.com/user/eGovernanceKrems

CeDEM13 Proceedings
The CeDEM13 proceedings will soon be available online (OA) as a pdf,
and in
book format by the end of summer. We will let you know when they are
ready!

CeDEM13 and the Open Access eJournal for e-Democracy and Open
Government
(JeDEM)
The best CeDEM13 papers will be published in a special issue of JeDEM
later
this year. If you are interested in submitting a paper for the current
call,
please see: http://www.jedem.org/announcement/view/9


28 de mai. de 2013

Internet and public policies

Nice presentation about how the new technologies could contribute to improve public policies: http://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/policy/

Locupletem-se: Information and society

Número especial da Information and Society sobre midias socias e eleições: locupletem-se: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rics20/16/5#.UaTfnECOLoI

23 de mai. de 2013

Ipea na vanguarda

Ipea disponibiliza bases de dados para pesquisas sobre participação social

O Ipea/Diest está disponibilizando em formato de dados abertos três bases de dados: a primeira reúne dados sobre o perfil e atuação de 767 conselheiros nacionais; a segunda sistematiza informações dos atos normativos dos 24 colegiados pesquisados; a terceira contém informações a respeito das formas de organização e regras de participação das 82 conferências nacionais realizadas entre 2003 e 2011. O objetivo é democratizar o acesso à informação e contribuir para pesquisas acerca desses espaços de participação social  (continue lendo).

Debates sobre E-participation

e-participation - What's the X-Factor?

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"e-participation - tools, processes, policy", that is the name of the workshop, the youthpart project organised within the framework of the conference "Building tomorrows Europe" in Bonn, on May 7-8.
The conference was the 25th anniversary celebration of the National Agency for the EU programme "Youth in Action" and youth participation is a key field of interest in international youth work. Consequently, the project youthpart that aims to explore e-participation for young people and their inclusion into the digital society, took over the challenge to bring a high-quality workshop on e-participation & youth alive: 35 interested participants joined this workshop, where experts from Ireland, Austria and Germany stirred up the discussion and brought a broad variety of perspectives to the table. 

The x-factor - what makes online participation successful?
Listen here to the discussion

"There has to be a binding agreement and the process has to be taken serious", responds Eva Panek from Liquid Democracy e.V. "Of course, there are different other factors, but these are
the most important ones, according to my opinion". For Andreas Karsten from youthpolicy.org, the problem is a different one. "Everyone assumes e-participation is cheap and quick. But it is
not and that makes e-participation not completely working as it could be, at least at this point in history where we are now". For him, the x-factor lies in the assigned budget for programming and the website. "That should not exceed  10% of the overall budget for the e-participation project". Deirdre Lee from the European project Puzzled by Policy adds, that just the website or a tool does not make the process. "Also," she states,"Policy does not change overnight. It has to be an integrated process with realistic goals". Judith Schossböck from the European project Ourspace says, "There are direct and indirect ways of effective youth participation. Yet, seeing the direct impact to the process is crucial for individuals, and this can happen through by having fun or receive a form of recognition, for example ".

Relationship between e-participation and inclusion
Listen here to the discussion

Lorena Jaume from I&G Co:llaboratory who facilitated the workshop opened quickly the floor for discussion and contributions from the audience. "Don't we reach anyway the top 10%, the elite of society, through online participation, what about the disadvantaged young people", a person from the audience asked. Another contribution pointed out that youth people may be disadvantaged because they live in rural areas and might be left behind when it comes to digital participation due to lacking internet connection. One person from the audience encountered that it has explicitly the so-called disadvantaged young people who connected themselves through social media during the riots in England last year. Andreas Karsten suggested that while most participation processes and tools online still require text-based input. A change towards more interactive, audio and visual input is needed.

An online tool is participatory when...
Listen here to the discussion

One returning question also in international debates is, what makes an online tool participatory and how is the relation between online and offline. Hence, Lorena Jaume took the chance to challenge the panelists with these questions. Most panelists agreed that online and offline processes need to be combined in order to be effective. Additionally, Eva Panek points out, there need to be incentives for young people and tools need to be ad-hoc, flexible and with a low threshold to be able to to pick young people up where they usually often are, namely online. Deirdre Lee brings it down to three hallmarks, that make tools participatory. "Clearly, that is accessibility, transparency and accountability", she states. For Judith Schossböck a certain digital gap is a part of the process, one need to deal with still at this point. Also Andreas Karsten can list three specific hallmarks for participatory tools: "A tool has to present that historic context of a debated topic, furthermore, it is needed to include the position a person or institution has towards a topic over time, and of course, accountability, meaning, what has changed over time related to a debated topic".

10 years from on there will be no more e-participation
Listen here to the discussion

Time flew by quickly and the 75 minutes discussion time were approaching its end and Lorena Jaume invited the panelists to become fortune tellers: "According to you what has to be done 10 years from now on?". 
Deirdre Lee hopes that participation becomes a normal part of daily life and that technology plays an important part in it. Also the movement of open data and further developments in social media will support it. "Gaining experiences about e-participation processes, more exchange about this still young phenomenon, building up knowledge", summarizes Eva Panek. "The school curriculum needs to take up these developments", states Judith Schossböck,"already now we observe a generation gap in schools where teacher try to prevent pupils in engaging with social media". Andreas Karsten hopes for smaller devices and less big screens. He also draws a little bit of a doomsday scenario:"The real battles are outside of youth sector when it comes to e-participation. Everyone needs to know who Neelie Kroes is and what needs to be done to keep the internet infrastructure open and decentralised. Otherwise, in 10 years, it will be too late to debate about e-participation as we know it now, as it will be a victim of media regulation".

Presented Projects:
    liqd.net & ypart.eu

    puzzledbypolicy

18 de mai. de 2013

Dear all


Below you will find the programme of the international symposium organized by the DEL network (CERTOP-CNRS and UPEC-CEDITEC), "Online political participation and its critics" to be held, on June 19th and 20th in Paris. A French/English simultaneous translation of the conference is planned.

15 de mai. de 2013

Novo portal do E-democracia

O portal e-Democracia está com novo layout e novas opções de interatividade. Além de uma home reformulada, foram feitas melhorias nas funções que já existiam, com o objetivo de estimular a colaboração crescente dos internautas. As mudanças foram implementadas a partir do retorno dos próprios usuários, desde que o portal entrou no ar, em 2009. O que você achou? Responda a enquete e ainda participe do fórum! Obrigada! Equipe e-Democracia

Atenciosamente,

Equipe e-Democracia
edemocracia@camara.gov.br
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Colóquio interessante no CNRS

You will find below the full program of the international symposium organized by the DEL network (CERTOP-CNRS and UPEC-CEDITEC), "Online political participation and its critics" to be held on 19 and 20 June at the CNRS. A simultaneous translation is planned during both days.
For organizational reasons, the online registration for all those who wish to be present is imperative, by June 5: http://colloquedel2013.fr/en/inscription-colloque/

Furthermore, the general assembly of the DEL network will take place on June 21 from 10am to 13pm at the University of Paris Est Creteil. You are more than welcome (http://colloquedel2013.fr/en/une-ag-pour-decider-de-lavenir-du-reseau-del/)

All the best,
Stéphanie Wojcik and Gérard Loiseau

http://colloquedel2013.fr/en/

14 de mai. de 2013

Twitter e eleições na dinamarca


Nova edição da Javnost, the public.

Tem artigo sobre twitter e eleições. http://javnost-thepublic.org/

12 de mai. de 2013

Grupos de pesquisa da FIocruz


Grupo de Pesquisa Tecnologias, Culturas, Práticas Interativas e Inovação

Temos artigos públicados, que a maneira tradicional, por exemplo, discutem, entre outros:

Sistemas políticos e Internet - "Novas tecnologias: do partido centralizado às redes da sociedade civil e comunidades virtuais" - http://revista.ibict.br/liinc/index.php/liinc/article/viewFile/253/144,

Questões relacionadas a relacionadas a Políticas Públicas: Governo eletrônico e redes sociais: informação, participação e interação - http://www.reciis.cict.fiocruz.br/index.php/reciis/article/view/604/1035

Faz cursos que trabalham com este tema como: Grupo do Facebooc do Curso de redes Sociais:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/468816599851818/; Acordo Pedagógico - Curso Redes Sociais - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Et4Q-XzT9CK8oy160FZaqSUNhrhbJznNff2RcleYIDk/edit

Mas principalmente experimenta, organiza e discute ações políticas na Internet:

RedeFiocruz no Brasil sem Miséria: https://www.facebook.com/groups/252706931462688/


As Redes Sociais no Serviço Público: https://www.facebook.com/groups/202137906577884/?fref=ts

Campanhas para direção em organizações Públicas: Fiocruz; https://www.facebook.com/groups/taniaaraujojorge2013/; Icict https://www.facebook.com/niltonbahlis1

9 de mai. de 2013

Centro de Estudos Avançados em Democracia Digital


Centro de Estudos Avançados em Democracia Digital lançou seu novo site hoje: www.ceadd.com.br

Para quem não sabe, o CEADD, sediado na Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), é um centro de pesquisa especializado no estudo da relação entre internet e democracia. O objetivo é contribuir para uma melhor compreensão das iniciativas de democracia digital em curso no Brasil e no mundo. Temos a participação de grupos de pesquisa da UFAL, UFC, UFMG e da UFBA.

Mais informações, é claro, vocês podem acessar lá no nosso site :)

6 de mai. de 2013

El Gobierno de Brasil y el BID lanzan Manual sobre Redes Sociales y Gobierno

La Secretaria de Comunicação Social (SECOM) de la Presidencia del Brasil elaboró un manual para orientar la actuación del sector público en las redes sociales. En acuerdo el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID), se lanzó la versión digital y en español. Puntogov le acerca el documento.

Links abaixos também são úteis:


4 de mai. de 2013

Dicas da lista

(1) Olá pessoal hoje foi publicado o registro do processo de participação social da INDA, especialmente a construção do portal de dados abertos dados.gov.br
Notem que esse texto foi construido de forma colaborativa via github que é uma rede social para comunidades de desenvolvimento. O texto foi quase todo constuído utilizando o sistema de versionamento dessa rede, que é comumente utilizado para hospedar códigos. Aliás o tema de utilizar a lógica de colaboração de código para construção de textos e processos políticos foi tema de um TED do Clay Shirk no final do ano passsado.


20 de abr. de 2013

BIB; Site de pesquisas do CGU


Pesquisa sobre o uso das Tecnologias da Informação e da Comunicação no Brasil - TIC Domicílios e Empresas

The Brazilian Electoral Panel Study

The Brazilian Electoral Panel Study (BEPS) was designed primarily to capture campaign dynamics at the national level during the 2010 Brazilian presidential election. It aimed at generating data that make it possible to i) measure electoral volatility at the individual level during political campaigns, and ii) explore the ways in which both short and long-term factors affect this process and the ultimate vote decision: http://www.iadb.org/en/research-and-data/publication-details,3169.html?pub_id=IDB-DB-105

18 de abr. de 2013

Research Fellow


Research Fellow position at the Oxford Internet Institute, http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/newpositions/, closing date 2nd May.
For informal queries, feel free to contact Prof Helen Margetts director@oii.ox.ac.uk.

29 de mar. de 2013

Brazil will host the next PCST conference



The International Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) Conference is coming to Latin America for the first time in 2014 and will be held in Salvador, Brazil, between 5 - 8 May. Previous conferences have been located in every other continent around the world.  PCST 2014’s main theme is “Science communication for social inclusion and political engagement”.

28 de mar. de 2013

Pew


Pew Research Center makes its data available to the public for secondary analysis.

http://www.pewresearch.org/data/download-datasets/

26 de mar. de 2013

Tools: http://socialfresh.com/facebook-page-competitive-analysis-tools/


Special Issue: Topics in Survey Measurement and Public Opinion

Have you read the latest special issue from POQ on Topics in Survey Measurement and Public Opinion? The issue is a compilation of papers that cover a range of topics relevant to measurements in surveys, including research on public opinion and attitudes, questions and questionnaires, as well as interviewers and interviewing. The entire issue is free to read online.

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24 de mar. de 2013

BIB: Número especial sobre pesquisa em mídias sociais


NEW COST PUBLICATION

We are pleased to inform you that the COST double special issue "Methods for Analyzing Social Media" (guest edited by Klaus Bredl, Julia Hünniger and Jakob Linaa Jensen) has been published in the Journal of Technology in Human Services, Vol. 30, No. 3-4, 01 Jul 2012 and is now available on Taylor & Francis Online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wths20/30/3-4

21 de mar. de 2013

Monitoramento de midias socais

Inscrições para eventos de metodologia no Comitê Gestor

Dos 21 membros do CGI.br, nove são indicados pelo Governo e 12 são da Sociedade Civil em três segmentos: comunidade científica e tecnológica (3 membros), terceiro setor (4), segmento empresarial (4) e um notório saber. (http://www.cgi.br/sobre-cg/membros.htm).

No NIC.br, que implementa as decisões e projetos do CGI.br, está o CETIC.br, que produz essas pesquisas. O CETIC.br tem acordos de cooperação de uso dos dados com algumas universidades, além de um grupo de especialistas para cada pesquisa TIC (Domicílios, Empresas, Provedores, Crianças, etc.) que auxiliam nas etapas de ajustes dos questionários (alguns exemplos de quem faz parte desses grupos estão no slide 5 desse pdf: http://www.cetic.br/usuarios/kidsonline/2012/apresentacao-tic-kids-2012.pdf).

Aliás, estão abertas as inscrições da III Semana NIC.br de Metodologias de Pesquisa: http://cetic.br/semana-metodologias-pesquisas/.

14 de mar. de 2013

Eleições Obama

Dica do Samuel: análise das eleições do Obama pelo MIT: uma análise do MIT
http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/509026/how-obamas-team-used-big-data-to-rally-voters/

Dica: Excelente programa do Banco Mundial


Running until the end of this month, the World Bank has launched an online conversation on citizen engagement. Shedding light on the question of when, why and how participation works is precisely the objective of this initiative. The outcomes of this open dialogue are expected to 1) inform how the Bank approaches the issue of citizen engagement, and 2) support the development of an evaluation framework for Bank projects on ICT mediated citizen engagement. Join the conversation!

https://strikingpoverty.worldbank.org/

Call for papers: ten years of facebook


Call for Papers

Themed Issue of New Media and Society: ‘10 years of Facebook’

Guest editors: Siân Lincoln, Liverpool John Moores University, UK and Brady Robards, Griffith University, Australia

In early 2014 Facebook will have been online for ten years. Over the past ten years, Facebook has accumulated over a billion users globally, has achieved an estimated market value of over $100 billion, and has consistently been the most used social network site when compared to its competitors to the point of ubiquity. For many, Facebook has transformed the ways in which we communicate with each other in practically every aspect of our lives. Facebook has also attracted harsh criticism from users for its approach to privacy and transparency, and is regularly at odds with governments and other institutions over regulation and control. Facebook blurs traditional lines between what is private and what is public, while often complicating social relations by naming them and making them visible. The implications associated with the social network’s rise to dominance are complex and sometimes challenging, from both the micro levels of the individual through to the macro levels of society more broadly.

In this themed issue ‘10 years of Facebook’ we wish to explore the current ‘state of play’ with regards to the social, cultural and political significance of Facebook. Our aim is to bring together current academic debates surrounding this ubiquitous social network site to assess how, after ten years in existence, Facebook has made its mark on contemporary society as a space for social, cultural and political interactions. In addition, we wish to explore new and emerging approaches to the study of Facebook that interrogate the often complex relationships between the site, its users and everyday contexts.

We welcome short 250 word abstracts that reflect on ‘10 years of Facebook’, taking stock of the impact the site has had on contemporary social life. While attending to this broad aim, proposed articles will also need to address a more specific theme. Potential themes include, but are not limited to, the following:
  • Identity
  • Performance and representation
  • Youth cultures and subcultures
  • Privacy
  • Friendship
  • Relationships
  • Fandom
  • Age/ageing
  • Before life and after life
  • Political activism
  • Social movements
  • Regulation and control
  • Trolling
Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted to Siân Lincoln (s.lincoln@ljmu.ac.uk) by Wednesday 10th April 2013. On the basis of these short abstracts, invitations to submit full papers (of no more than 8000 words) will then be sent out in late April. Full papers will be due by August 31, and will undergo the usual New Media & Society peer review procedure. Invitation to submit a full paper in no way guarantees acceptance into the issue.

12 de mar. de 2013

Open government

UNPAN- United Nations Public Administration Network
Check out the 1st version of the Open Government Data for Citizen Engagement in Managing Development Toolkit (OGDCE Toolkit) released by UNPAN! Also don't forget to leave any suggestions and comments!http://bit.ly/YAhlv2

9 de mar. de 2013

Lançamento Compolítica


Caros leitores,

A revista Compolítica acaba de publicar sua mais nova edição, disponível em <http://compolitica.org/revista/index.php/revista>. Convidamos todos a navegar no sumário da revista para acessar os artigos e outros itens de seu interesse.

Agradecemos seu contínuo apoio a nosso trabalho,

Revista Compolítica ||

Compolítica
v. 2, n. 2 (2012): Compolítica
Sumário
http://compolitica.org/revista/index.php/revista/issue/view/4

3 de mar. de 2013

Deadline: DEL symposium

DEL symposium "Online political participation and its critics" : blog opening and Twitter account
In partnership with the ECPR Standing Group "Internet&Politics", the DEL research network is organizing the international symposium "Online political participation and its critics" on 19 and 20 June in Paris.

A blog (both in French and English) has been set up, on which you will find the programme and useful information :
http://colloquedel2013.fr/en

DEL also has un twitter account : @reseauDEL to which you are cordially invited to subscribe :)

Bib: conceito de participação


Dicado do Rafael: Estava procurando pelo artigo : "The concept of participation. If they have access and interact, do they really participate?"


E acabei achando outro dossie interessante do ano passado. Inclusive contando com artigos de alguns colegas aqui da lista. :)

Enjoy. ;)

Lançamento: 50 anos esfera pública em Habermas


Caros leitores,

Problemata acaba de publicar seu último número em
http://periodicos.ufpb.br/ojs2/index.php/problemata. Convidamos você a
navegar no sumário da revista para acessar os artigos e itens de interesse.

Agradecemos seu interesse em nosso trabalho,


A Equipe Editorial

Problemata
v. 3, n. 2 (2012): Dossiê Esfera Pública 50 Anos Depois
Sumário
http://periodicos.ufpb.br/ojs2/index.php/problemata/issue/view/1180

Editorial
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Apresentação
        Organizadores / Edited By: Jorge Adriano Lubenow Bartolomeu Leite da
Silva

20 de fev. de 2013

Bib: Número especial da Midia & Society dedicada as eleições

Saiu o número especial da revista Media & Society dedicada às eleições: http://m.nms.sagepub.com/content/current

1 de fev. de 2013

Lançamento: Relatório de 2012 Global Information Society Watch

Acabou de ser lançado o Relatório de 2012 Global Information
Society Watch, cujo o tema foi: The internet and corruption - Transparency and accountability online

Vale a pena conferir vários textos interessantes e contribuições vindas de vários países
do mundo.

A versão completa está disponível em:
http://www.giswatch.org/sites/default/files/GISWatch12_web.pdf



11 de jan. de 2013

BIB: ICT, Public Administration and Democracy in the Coming Decade

Dear colleague,
I am delighted to announce the new issue (17:3-4) of Information Polity, focusing on ICT, Public Administration and Democracy in the Coming Decade and edited by Albert Meijer, Frank Bannister and Marcel Thaens.
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the permanent study group on e-government of the European Group for Public Administration, we decided to take the risk and edit a volume on ‘ICT and Public Administration and Democracy in the Coming Decade’.
The 20th anniversary had already been used to look back at the work of this study group and this resulted in a rich special issue of Information Polity .We felt that we should now, as a counterweight to these backward looking reflections, look forward. This collection of papers celebrates the fact that research into e-governance is alive and well and presents cutting edge knowledge for academics and policy-makers.
Introduction
ICT, Public Administration and Democracy in the Coming Decade
A. Meijer, F. Bannister, M. Thaens
Section One: the past and the present situation as starting point for thinking about the future.
What lessons for the future can be learned if we look at the practice (Bannister and Connolly) and the visions (Taylor) of eGovernment in the past? Lessons can also be learned from complexities associated with eGovernment (Lips). Knowing what we know now, how can we deal with these complexities?
Surveillance as X-ray
C.W.R. Webster
Section two: the future implications of eGovernment for Government Institutions.
This section then covers topics that are relevant for thinking about the way government works and functions. One of these topics is the added value of interorganizational information sharing and integration (Gil-Garcia). But also discussions about a new concept like 'Publicness' of information (Mergel) or a more classic theme like Transparency (Grimmelikhuijsen) seem to fit very well within this section. Also the future of participatory democracy and the idea of a do-it-yourself state are described (Meijer).
Section three: the future implications for our e-government reseach and practice.
Where the contributions so far have looked at the concept of eGovernment itself and the developments in the future, now the shift is made to the future of the study and research of this phenomenon. How can we raise the explanatory power of eGovernment studies in the future? In what way can we benefit from the body of knowledge in different scientific areas (Bekkers)? And how useful is the use of 'a big question' approach for the further development of eGovernment studies (Yildiz)? And what are major trends regarding the development of e-government (Scholl).

21 de dez. de 2012

Pew: Reading Habits in Different Communities


Reading Habits in Different Communities

Reading habitsSeveral surveys by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project reveal interesting variations among communities in the way their residents read and use reading-related technology and institutions:
Book readers: Some 78% of Americans ages 16 and older say they read a book in the past 12 months. Urban (80%) and suburban (80%) residents are especially likely to have read at least one book in the past year. While rural residents are somewhat less likely to have read a book in the past year (71%), the book readers in rural areas read as many books as their counterparts in cities and suburbs.
Purposes for reading: Most of those ages 16 and older read books for pleasure, and that is especially true of suburban readers: 82% of suburbanites read for pleasure, compared with 79% of urban residents and 76% of rural residents. Urban residents (80%) and suburban dwellers (79%) are also especially likely to read to keep up with current events. Some 73% of rural residents do that. More than three-quarters of suburban residents (77%) read to research topics that interest them, compared with 74% of urban residents and 70% of rural residents. Finally, 57% of suburbanites and 58% of city dwellers read for school or work, compared with 47% of rural residents who do that.

18 de dez. de 2012

Artigo: party politics

Ultimo numero da party politics publicou um artigo do Cristian Vaccari sobre os partidos políticos norte-americanos e a internet:


A tale of two e-parties: Candidate websites in the 2008 US presidential
primaries
Cristian Vaccari
Party Politics 2013;19 19-40

17 de dez. de 2012