eCitizens Numbers - Research request, e-democracy abstracts link
I recall at the AOIR conference in Minneapolis a handful of presentations with juicy numbers about citizen perspectives on the use of the Internet in community/government/politics. If this rings a bell from that conference, your recent conference in the Netherlands, or any of your work, drop me a copy of anything appropriate: clift@publicus.net Below is a more specific list of questions that I am rushing to answer. I should note that I am an "e-democracy" practitioner who likes to build bridges between academics and e-democracy builders around the world. Keep me informed and I'll credit your work if I use it in one of my many speeches (hundreds across 25 countries thus far). Also, I released a compilation of abstracts from the APSA conference on DO-WIRE yesterday: http://www.mail-archive.com/do-wire@tc.umn.edu/msg00574.html I am looking for more abstract sources as well. eCitizen Numbers Next week I'll make a presentation to a foundation(s) titled the "Eye on the eCitizen." I am currently scouring the net and my contacts for the following things (expanded from my do-wire note linked above): - general statistics that illustrate that citizens become engaged when they "think it matters" or when they "think it will influence the outcome" - general breakdown/population estimates of the types of citizens - such my own framework: + active citizens (vote always, active in governance/community) + informed citizens (follow the news, vote mostly) + passive citizens (sometimes vote, avoid political news) + disengaged citizens (rarely vote, news? what's that) - what people do online in general - time spent doing X, visiting Y - any studies about user habits in their e-mail boxes versus web surfing - usages trends related to political/media/government sites - what people say they want in terms of political/governance information and services online and how they actually use such information/services currently and related trends - any numbers demonstrating a change in page views following usability improvements on government/political/media web sites - any numbers that help create a baseline related to e-democracy - any online usage trends related to the recent elections anywhere My goal is to help layout a framework for strategic involvement in e-democracy. Based on what we know, what can we do between elections with online tools and political/community involvement and what opportunities might exist in future elections. That is my goal. Anything related to above would be most helpful: clift@publicus.net Thanks, Steven Clift http://www.publicus.net Democracies Online Newswire http://www.e-democracy.org/do
Steven, search for the Eurobarometer surveys of the European Commission. They integrated survey questions in their annual representative household surveys for the 15 European member states and which cover your area of interest for years now. Can you either use their proper presentations :-( or go to your proper National survey data archive and do some little analysis by youself;- Frank Thomas Steven Clift wrote:
I recall at the AOIR conference in Minneapolis a handful of presentations with juicy numbers about citizen perspectives on the use of the Internet in community/government/politics. If this rings a bell from that conference, your recent conference in the Netherlands, or any of your work, drop me a copy of anything appropriate:
clift@publicus.net
Below is a more specific list of questions that I am rushing to answer. I should note that I am an "e-democracy" practitioner who likes to build bridges between academics and e-democracy builders around the world. Keep me informed and I'll credit your work if I use it in one of my many speeches (hundreds across 25 countries thus far).
Also, I released a compilation of abstracts from the APSA conference on DO-WIRE yesterday:
http://www.mail-archive.com/do-wire@tc.umn.edu/msg00574.html
I am looking for more abstract sources as well.
eCitizen Numbers
Next week I'll make a presentation to a foundation(s) titled the "Eye on the eCitizen." I am currently scouring the net and my contacts for the following things (expanded from my do-wire note linked above):
- general statistics that illustrate that citizens become engaged when they "think it matters" or when they "think it will influence the outcome"
- general breakdown/population estimates of the types of citizens - such my own framework: + active citizens (vote always, active in governance/community) + informed citizens (follow the news, vote mostly) + passive citizens (sometimes vote, avoid political news) + disengaged citizens (rarely vote, news? what's that)
- what people do online in general - time spent doing X, visiting Y
- any studies about user habits in their e-mail boxes versus web surfing
- usages trends related to political/media/government sites
- what people say they want in terms of political/governance information and services online and how they actually use such information/services currently and related trends
- any numbers demonstrating a change in page views following usability improvements on government/political/media web sites
- any numbers that help create a baseline related to e-democracy
- any online usage trends related to the recent elections anywhere
My goal is to help layout a framework for strategic involvement in e-democracy. Based on what we know, what can we do between elections with online tools and political/community involvement and what opportunities might exist in future elections. That is my goal.
Anything related to above would be most helpful:
clift@publicus.net
Thanks, Steven Clift http://www.publicus.net Democracies Online Newswire http://www.e-democracy.org/do
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