Developing Political Conversations
Social media and English local authorities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20508359 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nick Ellison (0000-0002-6348-655X, University of Leeds, corresponding author), Michael Hardey (0000-0002-1027-0165, University of Leeds) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 878-898 |
| Publication date | 2013-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Information Communication & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-118X • E-ISSN: 1468-4462 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1369118x.2012.740495 |
| OpenAlex | W1518310768 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 39 |
This paper reports on a survey of social media use by English local authorities. The survey indicates that English local authorities currently do not engage with social media in any substantive manner. However, as the paper argues, this lack of attention to forms of communication afforded by Web 2.0 risks missing an important avenue of ‘citizen engagement’, understood neither in the relatively straightforward terms of one-way ‘e-democracy’, such as e-petitions, nor in the Habermasian sense of rational democratic deliberation, but the more flexible manner of open-ended ‘conversations’ about local political issues. As the paper makes clear, academic enquiry has largely neglected this apparently mundane use of social media – certainly as it relates to specifically political participation – so some ‘interactive snapshots’ of this embryonic form of political communication are examined as a way of providing ‘prefigurative examples’ of its potential. By way of conclusion, it is suggested that the development of civic or political conversations across local government chimes with the emergent liquid modern environment, supporting, but not replacing, the ‘fixed’, or at least less ‘agile’, institutions of representative democracy
Deliberation · Democracy · Local government · Media studies · Political communication · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social media · Social science · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · E-Government and Public Services · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Public Administration · Social Media and Politics
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| Unique citing works | 17 |
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| Citations per year | 1,31 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |