Kayla Schwoerer
Biographic Data
| ID | 4154294 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kayla Schwoerer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kayla |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwoerer |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWOERER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9856-7587 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Preparing the Next Generation of AI-Savvy Public Affairs Professionals
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming pervasive in all areas of human behavior, including the public and the private sectors. Effective adoption of artificial intelligence systems requires AI-savvy public affairs professionals that engage effectively with the technology and key stakeholders to increase the chances of materializing the potential benefits and minimizing the critical risks embedded in AI. Schools of public affairs need a better u…
Same platform, different outcomes
Communicating the Evidence
As movements to use evidence to inform policy have gained traction, so have calls for greater transparency of that evidence. Indeed, transparency research suggests that disclosing the evidence justifying a new policy may positively impact citizens’ support for the policy, voluntary compliance, and even coproduction. Still, outcomes of transparency are nuanced. Research indicates that citizens’ understanding of government information is critical f…
Algorithmic discrimination in public service provision
As public bodies increasingly adopt AI technologies in their work, there is simultaneously growing attention to the risk that the reliance on the technology may introduce biases and produce discriminatory administrative outcomes, as demonstrated by multiple real-world cases. Our contribution addresses a core theoretical puzzle: with AI algorithms being increasingly embedded across public services, we lack crucial knowledge about how citizens assi…
Administrative Informatics
The purpose of this roundtable is to present, argue, and evaluate the role of administrative informatics in behavioral public administration. This essay is broken up into three sections. The first section introduces the substantive focus of administrative informatics and how it can be studied. The second section introduces the central concepts required to establish a new approach to scientific knowledge production. The final section provides a sh…
An exploratory study of social media's role in facilitating public participation in e‐rulemaking using computational text analysis tools
Government agencies struggle to use social media effectively to engage and involve the public. However, we know little about how individuals and groups on the other side of these efforts actually use social media to participate in government decision‐making processes, independent of government‐led engagement efforts. This exploratory study aims to address this by looking closer at how Twitter users self‐mobilize after a particular event in which …
Engaging stakeholders on TikTok
Nonprofits are slow adopters of new social media platforms, yet many have joined TikTok. Successful microvlogging on sites like TikTok, Instagram, and SnapChat requires different types of engagement than microblogging on sites like Facebook and Twitter. The authors conduct a mixed‐method social media analysis to answer three questions: Do microvlogs support traditional social media functions? How are nonprofits engaging with stakeholders through …
CO‐Design ‐ing a more context‐based , pluralistic, and participatory future for public administration
Public administration (PA) increasingly faces new and emerging challenges. To address such challenges, researchers can work collaboratively with practitioners to identify and tackle the most pressing issues. Yet, intentionally establishing an ongoing dialogue not only between researchers and practitioners but between researchers, practitioners, and the communities that PA scholarship and practice are intended to impact can enhance all stakeholder…
Whose open data is it anyway? An exploratory study of open government data relevance and implications for democratic inclusion
Open government data (OGD) is believed to enhance democratic outcomes by empowering citizens with the information necessary to participate in meaningful ways. Nonetheless, questions remain about whether OGD is indeed empowering citizens to participate or if the data that governments publish is more reflective of the interests of non-citizen stakeholders. Using the metadata of 2607 publicly available datasets scraped from New York City’s open data…
CO‐Design ‐ing a more context‐based , pluralistic, and participatory future for public administration
Public administration (PA) increasingly faces new and emerging challenges. To address such challenges, researchers can work collaboratively with practitioners to identify and tackle the most pressing issues. Yet, intentionally establishing an ongoing dialogue not only between researchers and practitioners but between researchers, practitioners, and the communities that PA scholarship and practice are intended to impact can enhance all stakeholder…
Whose open data is it anyway? An exploratory study of open government data relevance and implications for democratic inclusion
Open government data (OGD) is believed to enhance democratic outcomes by empowering citizens with the information necessary to participate in meaningful ways. Nonetheless, questions remain about whether OGD is indeed empowering citizens to participate or if the data that governments publish is more reflective of the interests of non-citizen stakeholders. Using the metadata of 2607 publicly available datasets scraped from New York City’s open data…
Algorithmic discrimination in public service provision
As public bodies increasingly adopt AI technologies in their work, there is simultaneously growing attention to the risk that the reliance on the technology may introduce biases and produce discriminatory administrative outcomes, as demonstrated by multiple real-world cases. Our contribution addresses a core theoretical puzzle: with AI algorithms being increasingly embedded across public services, we lack crucial knowledge about how citizens assi…
Engaging stakeholders on TikTok
Nonprofits are slow adopters of new social media platforms, yet many have joined TikTok. Successful microvlogging on sites like TikTok, Instagram, and SnapChat requires different types of engagement than microblogging on sites like Facebook and Twitter. The authors conduct a mixed‐method social media analysis to answer three questions: Do microvlogs support traditional social media functions? How are nonprofits engaging with stakeholders through …
Communicating the Evidence
As movements to use evidence to inform policy have gained traction, so have calls for greater transparency of that evidence. Indeed, transparency research suggests that disclosing the evidence justifying a new policy may positively impact citizens’ support for the policy, voluntary compliance, and even coproduction. Still, outcomes of transparency are nuanced. Research indicates that citizens’ understanding of government information is critical f…
Engaging stakeholders on TikTok
Nonprofits are slow adopters of new social media platforms, yet many have joined TikTok. Successful microvlogging on sites like TikTok, Instagram, and SnapChat requires different types of engagement than microblogging on sites like Facebook and Twitter. The authors conduct a mixed‐method social media analysis to answer three questions: Do microvlogs support traditional social media functions? How are nonprofits engaging with stakeholders through …
CO‐Design ‐ing a more context‐based , pluralistic, and participatory future for public administration
Public administration (PA) increasingly faces new and emerging challenges. To address such challenges, researchers can work collaboratively with practitioners to identify and tackle the most pressing issues. Yet, intentionally establishing an ongoing dialogue not only between researchers and practitioners but between researchers, practitioners, and the communities that PA scholarship and practice are intended to impact can enhance all stakeholder…
Whose open data is it anyway? An exploratory study of open government data relevance and implications for democratic inclusion
Open government data (OGD) is believed to enhance democratic outcomes by empowering citizens with the information necessary to participate in meaningful ways. Nonetheless, questions remain about whether OGD is indeed empowering citizens to participate or if the data that governments publish is more reflective of the interests of non-citizen stakeholders. Using the metadata of 2607 publicly available datasets scraped from New York City’s open data…
Administrative Informatics
The purpose of this roundtable is to present, argue, and evaluate the role of administrative informatics in behavioral public administration. This essay is broken up into three sections. The first section introduces the substantive focus of administrative informatics and how it can be studied. The second section introduces the central concepts required to establish a new approach to scientific knowledge production. The final section provides a sh…
An exploratory study of social media's role in facilitating public participation in e‐rulemaking using computational text analysis tools
Government agencies struggle to use social media effectively to engage and involve the public. However, we know little about how individuals and groups on the other side of these efforts actually use social media to participate in government decision‐making processes, independent of government‐led engagement efforts. This exploratory study aims to address this by looking closer at how Twitter users self‐mobilize after a particular event in which …
Algorithmic discrimination in public service provision
As public bodies increasingly adopt AI technologies in their work, there is simultaneously growing attention to the risk that the reliance on the technology may introduce biases and produce discriminatory administrative outcomes, as demonstrated by multiple real-world cases. Our contribution addresses a core theoretical puzzle: with AI algorithms being increasingly embedded across public services, we lack crucial knowledge about how citizens assi…
Preparing the Next Generation of AI-Savvy Public Affairs Professionals
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming pervasive in all areas of human behavior, including the public and the private sectors. Effective adoption of artificial intelligence systems requires AI-savvy public affairs professionals that engage effectively with the technology and key stakeholders to increase the chances of materializing the potential benefits and minimizing the critical risks embedded in AI. Schools of public affairs need a better u…
Same platform, different outcomes
Communicating the Evidence
As movements to use evidence to inform policy have gained traction, so have calls for greater transparency of that evidence. Indeed, transparency research suggests that disclosing the evidence justifying a new policy may positively impact citizens’ support for the policy, voluntary compliance, and even coproduction. Still, outcomes of transparency are nuanced. Research indicates that citizens’ understanding of government information is critical f…
Computer Science (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · E-Government and Public Services (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Metadata (3 works) · Open data (3 works) · Open government (3 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (3 works)