This study investigates two competing opinions regarding the role of social media platforms
in partisan polarization. The “echo chambers” view focuses on the highly fragmented …

Entrepreneurship has gained increasing research attention in recent years. Although
researchers largely agree the importance of innovation in the process of entrepreneurship …

With contemporary development of digital technology and smart cities initiatives, citizen co-
production has created a new government-citizen interface. However, it remains …

Social media have provided new environments for both individuals and organizations to
communicate. The literature on government use of social media has noted that these …

This paper tests the extent to which social media is shaping civic engagement initiatives to
build trust among people and increase trust in their institutions, particularly the government …

As open data becomes more widely provided by government, it is important to ask questions
about the future possibilities and forms that government open data may take. We present …

The objective of this article is to provide an initial assessment of Facebook use by Western
European municipalities considering two aspects: citizens' engagement and municipalities' …

This article discusses the idea of city as a platform. The analysis focuses on the forms and
implications of citizen involvement in publicly-supported participatory innovation platforms …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to explore the development of crowdsourcing
literature. Design/methodology/approach–This study is a comprehensive review of 346 …

Second generation web-based technologies (Web 2.0) such as social media and
networking sites are increasingly being used by governments for activities ranging from …