Wasting time on Facebook? When social media can be useful for local governments

Federica Fusi; Mary Feeney

doi:10.1145/2757401.2757453

Wasting time on Facebook? When social media can be useful for local governments

Federica Fusi, Mary Feeney

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Abstract

Despite its wide diffusion, the impact of social media in professional contexts is still ambiguous. Some workers report an higher flexibility in their working hours, while others report an increase in the time they spent in working activities. In this paper, we investigate how city government managers perceive social media and which factors influence the usefulness of social media for municipal managers. Drawing from a survey of 2,500 managers in U.S. cities we argue that the diffusion of social media usage, the presence of social media policies or guidelines, and the technology capacity of the organization will positively affect the usefulness of social media for local manager outcomes.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	318-319
Number of pages	2
Volume	27-30-May-2015
ISBN (Print)	9781450336000
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2757401.2757453
State	Published - May 27 2015
Event	16th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, dg.o 2015 - Phoenix, United States Duration: May 27 2015 → May 30 2015

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Other	16th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, dg.o 2015
Country/Territory	United States
City	Phoenix
Period	5/27/15 → 5/30/15

Keywords

City Governments.
Local Managers
Social Media

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Networks and Communications
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Software

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Fusi, F & Feeney, M 2015, Wasting time on Facebook? When social media can be useful for local governments. in ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. vol. 27-30-May-2015, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 318-319, 16th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, dg.o 2015, Phoenix, United States, 5/27/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2757401.2757453

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