The public facebook: A case of Australian government facebook pages and participation

ACIS 2011 Proceedings - 22nd Australasian Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Alam, Sultana Lubna ^a   Walker, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Audience engagement; Facebook; Gov 2.0; Online participation; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT; FACEBOOK; GOV 2.0; ONLINE PARTICIPATION; WEB 2.0;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84869113232     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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