2. Our discussion:
• What is social media?
• Revolution, Evolution or both?
• The Epochs of Civilization
• Social media inGovernment
• Wither the Nation-state?
3. What is social media?
• Common misconception:
▫ It’s technology, it’s applications and tools.
4. What is social media?
• It’s about relationships & human interaction.
• Why is social media different?
▫ Both the instrument & product of social shaping.
8. Revolution, Evolution or Both?
• ‘Change comes in waves or cycles…some waves
come in such magnitude that it appears to be a
‘revolution’’.
9. The Epochs of Civilization
• Spoken Word
• First ‘writings’.
• The alphabet.
• Moveable type.
• Mass media/broadcast
• The Internet.
10. The Epochs of Civilization
• Spoken Word • ‘The Great Leap forward’
• First ‘writings’. • First City State
• The alphabet. • Greek Enlightenment
• Moveable type. • Renaissance
• Mass media/broadcast • End of Cold War
• The Internet. • ??
12. The Printing Press
• Most recent world-order transformation.
• Without the printing press, the state as we know
it would have not come into existence.
13. Social Media & Globalization
• Nation-states unleashed the forces of
globalization.
• But, globalization flourishes because of the ICT
‘revolution’.
14. Social Media in Government
• Nation-state Reactions:
▫ Control
▫ Adapt
• Two Levels:
▫ Local
▫ Global
15. Social Media inGovernment
• Control – increasingly difficult
▫ Nation-states models based on maintain control
are being challenged.
• Adaptation – increasingly necessary
▫ Nation-state models in transition are more
common .
16. Arab Spring Nation-states
• Control of Information
• Little or no citizen interaction
• Mistrust of state-owned media
17. Arab Spring Nation-states
• Social media did not CREATE the uprisings, but
played a central role in SHAPING the debates.
• Used to disseminate information and network.
18. New Zealand
• An early innovator:
▫ Digital Strategy 2005
▫ 2005 - 100% of schools connected to Internet
▫ 2007 – Participation 2.0
▫ Digital Strategy 2.0 in 2008
▫ DigitalNZ
19. New Zealand
• Positive adaption continues:
▫ Between 2011-12 the Government sector had the
greatest growth of engagement.
▫ Ultra-Fast Broadband (UFI)
▫ Rural Broadband Initiative (RBI)
20. New Zealand
• A new type of nation-state?
▫ A network-information society.
E-government
Integration across networks (borders, cultures, etc.)
▫ A ‘knowledge society’
Knowledge provider/producer & sharer.
21. [R]evolution & the Nation-state
• Wither the nation-state?
▫ Yes&No
▫ More likely further evolution of political and
social organization.
Hinweis der Redaktion
Maxine Teller, Consultant, sums up what she calls the collaboration era.R.S. Zaharnacalls it the global communications era.Simply it means relationships and sharing information equals power and multiplies value.
Castells, Network SocietyJohn Arquilla & David Ronfeldt, NoopolitikAnne Marie Slaugther, A New World Order
Leah Lievrouw / Sonia Livingstone, Introduction, The Handbook of New Media.
Leah Lievrouw / Sonia Livingstone, Introduction, The Handbook of New Media.
William McGaughey ‘The Five Epochs of Civilization’; John Man ‘Gutenberg: How One Man Remade the World with Words’; Ronald Deibert ‘Parchment, Printing and Hypermedia’.
Philip Howard, MuzammilHussain, Will Mari, MarwaMazaid at the University of Washington, DeenFreelon at American University, and Aiden Duffy at Amazon Web Services.
JANE E. FOUNTAIN, PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL CENTER FOR DIGITAL GOVERNMENT. Prepared for the United Nations Project on Governance Conference on e-Government in Asia and the Pacific Seoul, Republic of Korea, 11-13 May 2011
The Engaged Web New Zealand 2012
2009 – Internet Use in New Zealand: Implications for Social Change. Ian Goodwin, Nigel Smith, Kevin Sherman, Charles Crothers, Jennie Billot, and Phillippa smith. WIPNZ (World Internet Project New Zealand).
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