Judith Schossboeck

• Researcher at University for Continuing Education Krems

Open Access scholarly literature is scientific output free from economic barriers and copyright restrictions. Using a case study approach, data mining methods and qualitative analysis, the scholarly output and the meta-data of the Open Access eJournal of e-Democracy and Open Government during the time interval 2009-2020 was analysed. Our study was...

Social networking sites have become increasingly important for self-diagnosis and obtaining health information, which are particularly relevant in the context of a lack of care. Their structures can further encourage the politicisation of health topics, as they offer a space for the production of crowdsourced knowledge and the amplification of acti...

The editorial from managing editors comprises information on the published articles as well as new information regarding the activities around JeDEM.

Journal editors of all types of scholarly publishing face various issues and choices in order to support the development of the journals they lead and manage. One particular issue is what strategic choices can be made to enhance the visibility, accessibility and impact of research published in their journal as much as possible. Another issue is how...

Open access (OA) publications play an important role for academia, policy-makers, and practitioners. Universities and research institutions set up OA policies and provide authors different types of support for engaging in OA activities. This paper presents a case study on OA publishing in a scholarly community, drawing on qualitative and quantitati...

Aspects that impact OA publishing can be institutional, societal, or individual factors. The question of publishing OA can be seen as moving from the “if” to the “how”, which raises several further questions. How do institutional context and official policies impact authors? How do central dimensions of digital society, for example digital literacy...

In order to motivate diverse user groups to participate in e-participation, platform designers are keen to offer attractive communication formats in combination with modern tools and suitable forms of online identification. This does not come without difficulties, as individual users prefer different solutions. Research on tools and electronic iden...

The eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government (JeDEM) provides researchers and practitioners the opportunity to advance the practice and understanding of eDemocracy, eGovernment, eParticipation. The journal aims to bridge innovative, insightful and stimulating research, testing and findings with practice and the work conducted by governments, NPOs...

The editorial to JeDEM Vol 10, No 1 (2018), ongoing submissions.

Im Folgenden wird die Evaluierung von digitalen Bürgerbeteiligungsprojekten behandelt. Zunächst soll die Evaluierung von Bürgerbeteiligungsverfahren allgemein erörtert werden, wobei unterschiedliche Forschungsmethoden mit ihren Dimensionen und Kategorien aufgezeigt sowie weitere Faktoren zur Evaluierung von Bürgerbeteiligungsverfahren analysiert un...

E-Partizipation ist vielfältig und lässt sich nicht anhand starrer Strukturen beschreiben, die einfach auf unterschiedliche Beteiligungssituationen und deren Anforderungen übertragen werden können. Um elektronische Beteiligung erfolgreich zu planen, müssen sich verantwortliche Personen und EntscheidungsträgerInnen auf mehreren Ebenen mit der Themat...

Das Kapitel „Technologien für digitale Bürgerbeteiligungsverfahren“ beschreibt ausgewählte, aktuelle Standards und Technologien, die für die Umsetzung von digitalen Bürgerbeteiligungsverfahren aus Sicht eines Entwicklers oder Betreibers einer Beteiligungsplattform wichtig sind. Das Kapitel liefert unter Bezugnahme auf existierende E-Partizipationsp...

Dieses Kapitel führt in die Thematik der digitalen Bürgerbeteiligung ein. Es behandelt die wichtigsten Begriffe und relevanten theoretischen Konzepte und Klassifizierungen. Insbesondere werden die Begriffe der elektronischen Demokratie (im Englischen e-democracy), digitalen bzw. elektronischen Bürgerbeteiligung (im Englischen e-participation) und d...

This chapter discusses a participation and technology enabled model of the citizen scientist in relation to the policy cycle. With interconnected personal devices collecting a plethora of various data, citizens are capable to serendipitously contribute to crowded knowledge generation. In the governance domain, the trend towards more data-driven mod...

With Open Access (OA), Open Science (OS) and Open Data (OD), researchers profit by sharing, collaborating, and participating in broader research agendas. Open Access (OA) publishing plays a key role in academia, but universities and research organisations must adopt or develop their own OA strategy which may not always overlap with researchers’ per...

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) affect democracy and the rule of law. Digitalisation has been perceived as a stimulus towards a more participative society or as support to decision making, but not without criticism. Authors draw on a legal review, case studies and quantitative survey data about citizens’ view on transparency and p...

JeDEM, the Journal of E-democracy and Open Government (jedem.org), was first published in 2009 as an initiative of the Centre for E-Governance. It is an open access e-journal (that follows the green open access road) with a focus on topics such as e-democracy, e-participation, open government and open access. The journal follows the green open acce...

Austria has seen some efforts in e-participation initiatives during the last years. However, a single platform comprising many e-participation levels and activities for a broader target group is so far missing. In the project ePartizipation researchers and practitioners worked on a platform demonstrator that integrates multiple online identificatio...

This summer issue of JeDEM presents the most recent “ongoing submissions” to the Journal of E-Democracy and Open Government. The authors have not submitted to a particular call for papers, but have responded to the journal’s open invitation to submit a paper to JeDEM’s main topics. The papers in this issue analyse current strengths and weaknesses i...

Sustainable research and innovation strongly depend on reliable data, which are easily accessible. Open Access publishing plays a key-role in this environment. Yet, journal subscription charges by publishers can be a hurdle, especially for smaller institutes, 3rd-world countries, and individual researchers, while conflict of interest prevent compan...

It is believed that new governmental approaches and new modes of innovation in governance can increase transparency, support common interests, and support collaboration with citizens and communities. The idea of increasing participation in governance, reflected in concepts like ‘open government’ and participatory governance (Yishai, 2011), is the p...

The utilization of new technologies by the public sector differs from the one by private companies and individuals. Regarding technologies that enable transparency, openness and outside participation (those usually associated with the term Open Government), not only a limited knowledge of the relevant technologies and capabilities, but also cultura...

Austria has seen some efforts in e-participation initiatives during the last years, for instance in the area of urban design. However, a single official platform (“one-stop”-principle) comprising many e-participation processes for a broader target group is so far missing. In the KIRAS project “ePartizipation” researchers and practitioners have work...

This issue comprises the best papers of the CeDEM 15 conference in May 2015 in Krems, Austria. In this issue of JeDEM, we are pleased to include the keynotes by Shauneen Furlong and Alon Peled held at the CeDEM15 Conference at Danube University Krems, research papers from CeDEM and a paper submitted to the JeDEM open submission system. Whilst the k...

With the widespread adoption of social media in many Asian societies, these platforms are increasingly used in a variety of ways to promote civic and political aims but such uses are shaped by various stakeholders and contexts of use. In this special issue, four papers on Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and China-Australia present highly contextualized...

E-participation projects have to consider a low participation threshold while maintaining security and data quality standards. While users often perceive complex regulations and logins as hurdles for participation, providers of solutions want to avoid misuse and in some cases have identified the participants uniquely. Not all levels of e-participat...

The following paper presents a quantitative content analysis of blog posts of selected discussions on a EU wide e-participation platform with the goal of showing that emotional writing is an indicator for the frequency of participation in online deliberations. 1 The platform analyzed for this research has been designed to bring young people in c...

The 'open society' has become a watchword of liberal democracy and the market system in the modern globalized world. Openness stands for individual opportunity and collective reason, as well as bottom-up empower-ment and top-down transparency. It has become a cherished value, despite its vagueness and the connotation of vulnerability that surrounds...

Reverse Engineering is a term that comes originally from the field of mechanical engineering. Reverse Engineering indicates the process of analysing an existing object or system by laying out its construction plan to then rebuild it in every detail. This manner of reconstruction allows for modifications and adjustments to new demands and requiremen...

Most activism in connected societies has an online component. Social media accompany corporeal demonstrations, occupations, and protest marches. It is argued that such social media platforms play an increasingly important role when mobilizing across different political positions, coordinating and producing visibility for a political demand. In this...

In the area of large-scale e-participation projects on a cross-national level, the project we present is based on the idea that the active involvement of young people in the process of socio-political decision-making plays an important societal role. OurSpace is a multi-national project supporting a closer relationship between European decision mak...

In this article we examine the different forms of activism using information and communication technologies as a means to represent different political positions. Within the framework of radical democracy we develop a typology of contemporary activism as a form of political participation. The results are based on three qualitative case studies of p...

Mit der Verbreitung des Internets, der umfassenden Präsenz sozialer Medien und der damit einhergehenden Unterstützung bestimmter Formen prosozialen Verhaltens werden kollaborative Produktions- und Entscheidungsprozesse als neue Werkzeuge des 21. Jahrhunderts diskutiert. Dieser Artikel gibt einen Überblick über die Trends, Bedingungen und Entwicklun...

Purpose This paper aims to examine socio‐cultural differences in internet use (Digital Divide) among 14‐year‐old Austrian pupils, in particular usage scenarios and research competences. It is based on a paper presented at the International Association for the Development of the Information Society e‐Society conference, 10‐13 March 2011, Spain (Pary...

Die Modelle elektronischer Demokratie könnten unsere Vorstellungen von politischer Zusammenarbeit, Regierungsarbeit und EntScheidungsprozessen verändern. Für die Nutzung der Beteiligungspotentiale gibt es bereits zahlreiche Beispiele, aus denen Chancen, Risiken und Problemfelder für die österreichische Politik und Verwaltung abgeleitet werden könne...