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Disconnected democracy? A study of Scottish Community Councils’ online communications
Bruce Martin Ryan Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of Edinburgh Napier University for the Degree of Master of Science in Information Systems Development School of Computing December 2013
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Abstract In Scotland, Community Councils (CCs) are the lowest tier of government, being representative bodies for small portions of Local Authority areas and having no service-‐delivery duties. They have a number of issues. For example, 16% of potential CCs do not exist, while there is a paucity of candidates for those that do exist. Despite being charged with ascertaining and expressing their communities’ opinions, and despite other tiers of UK government increasing their use of online communications, recent research has shown that very few CC effectively use online techniques. In particular, the proportion using social media is very small. This project investigated the motivations behind some CCs’ use and non-‐use of online communication. Semi-‐structured interviews were used to investigate the drivers and inhibitors behind some CCs’ online presences, while criteria for an ‘ideal’ presence were generated and used to assess actual presences. The most significant drivers and inhibitors found were cost (specifically reduced information-‐ dissemination costs but also increased time-‐costs), increased effectiveness/efficiency, increased visibility, satisfaction of citizen demand and the age-‐rel
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