Category Archives: Daily Links
Community representatives, information channels and citizen democratic engagement
Here’s a link to something I co-authored with Hazel Hall and Bruce Ryan: a paper which explores how elected (yet unpaid) community councillors in Scotland exploit information channels for democratic engagement with the citizens that they represent. We demonstrate that … Continue reading
Information literacy to support democratic engagement
Our latest community councillor project is now well underway. It’s called IL-DEM, and we’re blogging about it on our community knowledge website (Community-Knect.net) it focusses on the information behaviours of community councillors in Scotland as they go about their role … Continue reading
Hear from postgraduate MSc Business Information Technology students
We’ve just published a short video publicising the MSc course I lead. I’m biased, but I do think it’s a great programme – there are not many places that offer such a good opportunity to strengthen your portfolio of business … Continue reading
#digiCC – our report on digital engagement workshops
We published a report on the digital engagement workshops we have been running for community councils across Scotland. Some thoughts and background… Continue reading
Background information on Community Councils in Scotland
Reading and fixing this may be a nice diversion for democracy nerds who are feeling a little bit overwhelmed by IndyRef. In the course of researching how community councillors have been using the internet, we’ve had to document how community councils … Continue reading
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