On the (In)effectiveness of the Share/Tweet Button: Idea Management for Civic Participation

Jorge Saldivar, Carlos Rodriguez, Florian Daniel, Fabio Casati, Luca Cernuzzi

School of Engineering Entrepreneurship

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Abstract

The authors study the practice of promoting idea campaigns in social networks via the well-known Share/Tweet button. They analyze data about 53 civic participation initiatives collected from IdeaScale, one of the leading online idea management platforms today, and unveil a considerable misconception about the effectiveness of the practice. The article highlights open challenges and suggests a set of alternative techniques to leverage on the ideation capacity of social networks.

Original language	English
Article number	8039303
Pages (from-to)	38-47
Number of pages	10
Journal	IEEE Internet Computing
Volume	21
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MIC.2017.3481343
Publication status	Published - 2017

Keywords

civic participation
idea management
Internet/Web technologies
share/tweet button
social networks

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Networks and Communications

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10.1109/MIC.2017.3481343

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