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Tag Archives: scotland
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
Posted in Daily Links, e-participation, Information behaviour, paper, research, UK
Tagged activity theory, Community Councils, Information literacy, scotland
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Lurking and what leaders know about their invisible audience
Let’s talk about something obvious: Leaders (for instance community councillors) share information online but the paradox is, that they often don’t get a visible response. Why do they do it then? What are their expectations of how the information they … Continue reading
Posted in e-participation, Information behaviour, research, UK
Tagged community, Community Councils, Information literacy, lurkers, scotland, social media
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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
Posted in Daily Links, e-participation, Information behaviour, UK
Tagged Community Councils, engagement, Information literacy, scotland
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#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
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Tagged community, Community Councils, learning, scotland, social media
Community councils online? Up to a point, Lord Copper
Some readers may be aware that during the blog silence, I have in fact been involved in a bit of research, looking at different aspects of the use of the internet by Scottish community councils. The latest output has been … Continue reading
Posted in e-participation, research, UK, Uncategorized
Tagged Community Councils, scotland, self-efficacy
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