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Behind the Myths of Citizen Participation

Published:2018-02-28 Issue:1 Volume:18 Page:1-28
ISSN:1533-5399
Container-title:ACM Transactions on Internet Technology
language:en
Short-container-title:ACM Trans. Internet Technol.

Author:

López Claudia¹^ORCID,Farzan Rosta²,Lin Yu-Ru²

Affiliation:

1. Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile

2. University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, PA, USA

Abstract

Various information systems have emerged to facilitate citizen participation in the life of their communities. However, there is a lack of robust understanding of what enables the sustainability of such systems. This work introduces a framework to identify and analyze various factors that influence the sustainability of “hyper-local” information systems. Using longitudinal observations of participation from 35 online neighborhood discussion forums over six years, we analyze the relationship between sustainability and online–offline community characteristics. Our results not only show patterns consistent with previous observations but reveal the dubious influences of member heterogeneity and network structure. Design insights are discussed.

Funder

CONICYT Chile

Conicyt-Fondecyt Iniciación

NSF

Google Research Faculty Award

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Subject

Computer Networks and Communications

Link

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3093892

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