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Social media platforms as channels for citizen discussions and for governments to reach audiences. Social entrepreneurship has seen a major increase in activity in recent years. One example can be seen from Eric Gordon and Jessica Philippi, who released a study on their interactive online game for local engagement called Community PlanIt (CPI ...
E-democracy (a blend of the terms electronic and democracy), also known as digital democracy or Internet democracy, uses information and communication technology (ICT) in political and governance processes. [1][2] The term is credited to digital activist Steven Clift. [3][4][5] By using 21st-century ICT, e-democracy seeks to enhance democracy ...
Participatory media are social media whose value and power derives from the active participation of many people. This is a psychological and social characteristic. One example is StumbleUpon. Social networks, when amplified by information and communication networks, enable broader, faster, and lower cost coordination of activities.
Civic technology refers to the use of technology to enhance the relationship between citizens and their government. There are four different types of e-government services, and civic technology falls within the category of government-to-citizen (G2C). The other categories include government-to-business (G2B), government-to-government (G2G), and ...
In citizen media, the user generating the content is often anonymous, hidden by a username. In traditional media, the reporter or editor's identity is known and can be identified by their byline. Conversely, there are some forms of citizen media, in which the author is known; this is most often in blogs. [citation needed]
Internet activism[a] involves the use of electronic-communication technologies such as social media, e-mail, and podcasts for various forms of activism to enable faster and more effective communication by citizen movements, the delivery of particular information to large and specific audiences, as well as coordination. [1][2] Internet ...
Since advocacy groups have the agency to control a community's narrative through a social media post, they have the agency to control the deservedness of a community as well. That is, the amount of resources or attention a community receives largely depends on the kind of narrative an advocacy group curates for them on social media.
Wikimania 2007 Citizen Journalism Unconference. Citizen journalism, also known as collaborative media, [1]: 61 participatory journalism, [2] democratic journalism, [3] guerrilla journalism [4], grassroots journalism, [5] or street journalism, [6] is based upon members of the community playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing, and disseminating news and information.