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E-Government

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Synonyms

Citizen participation; Digital democracy; Digital government; E-participation

Glossary

Affordance:

A quality or feature of an object or an environment that allows an individual to perform an action (e.g., a doorknob affords opening, a computer mouse affords selecting)

E-government:

Electronic government; also referred to as digital government, Internet and web-based provision of government services, and interactions between government and citizens, businesses, and other governmental agencies; e-government also encompasses citizen-to-citizen interactions related to politics and civic life

Social affordance:

A quality or feature that allows multiple individuals to interact with each other (e.g., bulletin board, online communication system, tagging, rating)

Social media:

Information and communication technology and services that facilitate and support interpersonal and group interaction and awareness

Social network site:

Web-based services that allow individuals to create and...

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Acknowledgments

I am grateful for the support from the National Science Foundation (IIS-0429274, SES-1111239) for research related to some of the work described in this entry. I am also indebted to my collaborators, including Manuel Perez-Quinones, John Tedesco, Naren Ramakrishnan, Edward A. Fox, John M. Carroll, Mary Beth Rosson, Sameer Ahuja, Byoung Joon Kim, Than Than Zin, Debbie Denise Reese, Samah Gad, Kumbirai Madondo, and Ankit Ahuja.

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  1. Center for Human–Computer Interaction, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA, USA

    Andrea L. Kavanaugh

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  1. Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), Gatineau, QC, Canada

    Rokia Missaoui

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Kavanaugh, A.L. (2016). E-Government. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_62-1

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