TY - JOUR
T1 - Local engagement online
T2 - Municipal Facebook pages as hubs of interaction
AU - Lev-On, Azi
AU - Steinfeld, Nili
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 .
PY - 2015/7/1
Y1 - 2015/7/1
N2 - The article presents the results of a comprehensive study of the scope and character of the activities of the Israeli municipalities on Facebook.11This study was conducted with the assistance of the institute for the study of New Media, Politics and Society at Ariel University. The authors express their gratitude to Bar Ram, Hadas Schlussel, Valerie Aronov, Varonika Makogon, Avital Mandel and Yakira Azulay for their assistance in collecting and processing the data and preparing the manuscript. The study maps the Facebook presence of Israeli municipalities and checks for correlations between Facebook presence, municipality size, and the geographic and socio-demographic characteristics of the municipalities. We then measure several engagement indices of municipal activities on Facebook (number of fans, average likes, comments, and shares of posts) and check for correlations of these engagement indices with municipality size and geographic and social demographic characteristics of the municipalities. The article concludes with a review of several indices of municipality Facebook page activity, including scope of content uploaded by the page and by fans, content formats (statuses, images, and videos) and their reception.
AB - The article presents the results of a comprehensive study of the scope and character of the activities of the Israeli municipalities on Facebook.11This study was conducted with the assistance of the institute for the study of New Media, Politics and Society at Ariel University. The authors express their gratitude to Bar Ram, Hadas Schlussel, Valerie Aronov, Varonika Makogon, Avital Mandel and Yakira Azulay for their assistance in collecting and processing the data and preparing the manuscript. The study maps the Facebook presence of Israeli municipalities and checks for correlations between Facebook presence, municipality size, and the geographic and socio-demographic characteristics of the municipalities. We then measure several engagement indices of municipal activities on Facebook (number of fans, average likes, comments, and shares of posts) and check for correlations of these engagement indices with municipality size and geographic and social demographic characteristics of the municipalities. The article concludes with a review of several indices of municipality Facebook page activity, including scope of content uploaded by the page and by fans, content formats (statuses, images, and videos) and their reception.
KW - Big Data
KW - E-Government
KW - E-Participation
KW - Engagement
KW - Local Government
KW - Social Media
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84983200751&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.giq.2015.05.007
DO - 10.1016/j.giq.2015.05.007
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AN - SCOPUS:84983200751
SN - 0740-624X
VL - 32
SP - 299
EP - 307
JO - Government Information Quarterly
JF - Government Information Quarterly
IS - 3
ER -