Title
Social media monitoring: Responsive governance in the shadow of surveillance?
Abstract
Social media monitoring is gradually becoming a common practice in public organizations in the Netherlands. The main purposes of social media monitoring are strategic control and responsiveness. Social media monitoring poses normative questions in terms of transparency, accountability and privacy. We investigate practices of social media monitoring in four Dutch public organizations. Policy departments seem to be more strongly orientated towards monitoring, whereas organizations involved in policy implementation seem to be more inclined to progress to webcare. The paper argues for more transparency on social media monitoring.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1016/j.giq.2013.05.024
Government Information Quarterly
Keywords
Field
DocType
Social media,Social media monitoring,Webcare,Surveillance
Public administration,Transparency (graphic),Corporate governance,Economics,Social media,Public relations,Normative,Strategic control,Accountability
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
30
4
0740-624X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
23
0.85
5
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Victor Bekkers121116.97
Arthur R. Edwards2252.37
Dennis de Kool3301.84