We aim to encourage and support public participation in heritage through the development of Cultural Heritage Forums, a kind of cultural web portal that enables active participation of communities of interest in a way that complements rather than replaces visits to physical cultural institutions. The cultural heritage forum described here (Station X) is concerned with promoting an understanding...

The potential of the internet has been recognised to enhance government initiated citizen communication. Despite limited experience so far, some lessons for designing online-participation have been learned: Ensuring the external and internal relevance of online consultation processes seems crucial. Some measurements to ensure the external and internal relevance will be set out in a description ...

The paper presents a prototype1 aiming to widen user participation in requirement engineering for an open source ERP software company. The prototype utilizes a set of templates in a wiki system to allow community participation, and yet maintain necessary processes and models in the software development. The prototype informs developers about the ongoing work of others, in part to avoid conflict...

eLearning collaborative pedagogy assumes that interaction is important for successful courses, yet questions exist regarding the nature and extent of the interaction and its effects on student performance. Although the majority of past studies focus on students’ perceptions of the quality and quantity of their interactions and the benefits they gained in e-learning, no research has examined the...

Incels, Involuntary Celibates, are men who both struggle with lack of sexual and romantic relationships participate in online communities espousing a misogynistic ideology. This study characterizes users three popular Incel forums. Using network analysis community detection, we identify their main issues interests assess whether predated or followed initial participation an forum. Results indic...

The potential of e-Participation mechanisms has significantly evolved over time. However, with governments, political parties, corporations, and mass-media controlling the communication channels, citizens who deliberate through e-Participation may have to contend with bias, censorship, and even eavesdropping. TownHall is intended to help manage this burden. As a platform-independent, peer-to-pe...

This study researches behavior associated with online file sharing activities. Specifically, a technology known as ‘Bittorrent’ is studied in an auto-observational technique and supported by information gained through forums and blogs to gain insight. The main research question the authors ask is: what are the factors and processes that facilitate an individual’s participation in online sharing...

Community participation is one the fundamental tenets of community policing practice. In relation to policing, implies a process in which residents act, voice their opinions, and take responsibility for crime prevention. However, key issues literature how this constructed maintained. Hence, understanding critical implementation contemporary policing. Keeping view, case study was conducted 2018 ...

shortage of water is one the main factors limiting the development of agricultural activities and farmer participation is critical to improve on-farm water management and crop productivity. this research was done with aim to identify impeding and facilitating factors influencing on using new irrigation methods by farmers in west boshroyeh township in southern khorasan. the methodological approa...

the purpose of this paper is to analyze the willingness of clergymen towards their participation in agriculture and natural resources extension and education programs (anreep). the population of the study consisted of all the clergymen who dialed anreep. using coronbach alpha formula along with stratified random sampling techniques a number of 260 clergymen were selected. a questionnaire, desig...