Paper Info
Title
‘Gentlemen, all aboard!’ ICT and party politics: Reflections from a Mass-eParticipation experience
Abstract
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) use is becoming an ever more popular way to involve citizens in political decision making. And yet, despite their recently increasing number, few eParticipation initiatives have achieved their intended aims. If nothing else, this shows that the internal processes, challenges and opportunities of using ICT to engage citizens in politics deserve further examination. The present paper attempts to undertake such an investigation by analysing Italy's Five Star Movement, a mass-eParticipation-based political organisation recently founded by private citizens. Using an interpretive case-study approach, this paper assesses the goals, participation, technology use, internal governance, external consequences, and challenges endemic to employing ICT in citizen engagement, to answer the following question: what consequences, challenges and opportunities does mass-eParticipation present to organisational stakeholders? Results of the study bring to light several additional research questions whose answers will surely advance the current discourse on eParticipation, and they also provide practical guidance and direction for those launching eParticipation initiatives.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1016/j.giq.2015.04.009
Government Information Quarterly
Keywords
Field
DocType
eParticipation,eDemocracy,Five Star Movement,Citizen involvement in politics,ICT,Social media
Public administration,Citizen engagement,Corporate governance,Social media,Nothing,Public relations,Sociology,Information and Communications Technology,Politics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
32
3
0740-624X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.41
17
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tommaso Federici1354.79
Alessio Maria Braccini2609.97
Øystein Sæbø341331.52