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E-Democracy and Network Externalities – The Case of Websites of Finnish Members of Parliament

Reima Suomi, E-Democracy and Network Externalities – The Case of Websites of Finnish Members of Parliament. In: Wojciech Cellary, Elsa Estevez (Eds.), Software Services for e-World . Proceedings of the 10th IFIP International Conference on Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society, (I3E 2010), 112-117, Springer, 2010.

Abstract:

Effective communication between voters and members of parliament is a key success factor democracy. Fortunately, modern information technology is giving a lot of new channels to take care of this commu-nication. Traditionally, Members of Parliament have maintained static www-sites, but nowadays more dynamic and interactive forms of commu-nication, such as blogs, Facebook and Twitter are almost a must for the Members of Parliament, especially in the case of less popular politicians. As in any technology application, even in www-presence of Members of Parliament network externalities occur: unexpected consequences of web-presence. This article sets out some preliminary concepts and ideas on what these network externalities might be.

BibTeX entry:

@INPROCEEDINGS{inpSuomi10b,
  title = {E-Democracy and Network Externalities  – The Case of Websites of Finnish Members of Parliament},
  booktitle = {Software Services for e-World . Proceedings of the 10th IFIP International Conference on Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society, (I3E 2010)},
  author = {Suomi, Reima},
  editor = {Cellary, Wojciech and Estevez, Elsa	},
  publisher = {Springer},
  pages = {112-117},
  year = {2010},
  keywords = {e-democracy, members of parliament, Internet, network externalities},
}

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