This article describes how political participation is a central component of democracy. Past research has found that a … variety of factors drive individual decisions about participation, including the media that citizens use to gain political … participation. In this article, the role that social media use has in fostering a variety for forms of political participation is …

weakness, this study evaluated the usability and viability of alternative ballot verification methods in an electronic voting … terms of voting. Additional research in the field is the next step in exploring these confirmation methods. …

This paper examines how technology affects participation in an English course in Second Life. Second Life … participation involve software complexity, unreliable functionality of SL, as well as hardware and connectivity issues. To deal with …

participation levels among learners and their teacher. Findings suggest that while learners' participation varied considerably, the … teacher's participation was consistently the highest in all platforms except Google Docs. Learners had different attitudes … towards their own and their peers' contribution, but generally valued the teacher's participation. …

customer participation and brand loyalty. The research included a posttest only, in a quasi-experiment design, with two …

indicates that Web 2.0, participation and open government/open data were some of the frequently used keywords in addition to the … indicated that research themes such as electronic participation, engagement, transparency, communication/interaction, trust …

of governance as one of the factors influencing the participation of citizens in smart cities projects. Governance … characteristics play a major role in explaining different typologies of citizen participation. Through a focus on Amsterdam Smart City … program and within a selected sample of projects, and how they relate to different typologies of citizen participation. The …

across multidisciplinary groups. The hypothesis is that framing the participation process in a game format facilitates idea …

. Such composite index is an integrated measure from four major indices; transparency, participation, collaboration, and …