An empirical analysis of Online Social Network structure to understand citizen engagement in public policy and community building

International Journal of Electronic Governance

Volumn 4, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 85-103

  Chung, Kon Shing Kenneth ^a   Chatfield, Akemi Takeoka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Citizen engagement; Civic engagement; E government; Network structure; Online forum; Online social networks; OSNs; Public sphere

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857935333     PISSN: 17427509     EISSN: 17427517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJEG.2011.041709     Document Type: Article

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