TY - JOUR
T1 - Examining the role of Web site information in facilitating different citizen-government relationships
T2 - A case study of state Chronic Wasting Disease Web sites
AU - Eschenfelder, Kristin R.
AU - Miller, Clark A.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are indebted to the Chronic Wasting Disease staff at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources for their time and patience in answering many questions. Alice Robbin, Jerry Vaske, Greg Downey, Sharon Dunwoody, and Tom Heiberlein provided feedback or research references for this work. The research was supported in part by grants from the Government Documents Roundtable of the American Library Association (GODORT) and the U.S. Geological Survey. The paper benefited from feedback from audiences at the Second International CWD Workshop, the MacArthur Foundation Internet Credibility Workshops-Tools and Institutions, the Wisconsin Interagency CWD Science and Health Planning Team Meeting, and numerous UW-Madison campus presentations.
PY - 2007/1
Y1 - 2007/1
N2 - This paper develops a framework to assess the text-based public information provided on program level government agency Web sites. The framework informs the larger e-government question of how, or whether, state administrative agencies are using Web sites in a transformative capacity-to change relationships between citizens and government. It focuses on assessing the degree to which text information provided on government Web sites could facilitate various relationships between government agencies and citizens. The framework incorporates four views of government information obligations stemming from different assumptions about citizen-government relationships in a democracy: the private citizen view, the attentive citizen view, the deliberative citizen view, and the citizen-publisher view. Each view suggests inclusion of different types of information on government agency web sites. The framework is employed to assess state Web sites containing information about chronic wasting disease, a disease effecting deer and elk in numerous U.S. states and Canada.
AB - This paper develops a framework to assess the text-based public information provided on program level government agency Web sites. The framework informs the larger e-government question of how, or whether, state administrative agencies are using Web sites in a transformative capacity-to change relationships between citizens and government. It focuses on assessing the degree to which text information provided on government Web sites could facilitate various relationships between government agencies and citizens. The framework incorporates four views of government information obligations stemming from different assumptions about citizen-government relationships in a democracy: the private citizen view, the attentive citizen view, the deliberative citizen view, and the citizen-publisher view. Each view suggests inclusion of different types of information on government agency web sites. The framework is employed to assess state Web sites containing information about chronic wasting disease, a disease effecting deer and elk in numerous U.S. states and Canada.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.giq.2006.05.002
DO - 10.1016/j.giq.2006.05.002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33845260354
SN - 0740-624X
VL - 24
SP - 64
EP - 88
JO - Government Information Quarterly
JF - Government Information Quarterly
IS - 1
ER -