Social media for openness and accountability in the public sector: Cases in the greek context

Government Information Quarterly

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 12-29

  Stamati, Teta ^a   Papadopoulos, Thanos ^b   Anagnostopoulos, Dimosthenis ^a  

^a HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accountability; Affordances; Design; National policy; Openness; Social media; Strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922272344     PISSN: 0740624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2014.11.004     Document Type: Article

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