Strategic Partisans: Electoral Motivations and Partisanship in Local Government Communication

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-248
Author(s):  
Justin de Benedictis-Kessner
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Government Communication

scholarly journals Pelayanan Komunikasi Pemerintahan Dalam Pemberitaan Kebijakan Pemerintah Daerah Kepada Stakeholder di Kalimantan Selatan

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-127
Author(s):  
Sarwani Sarwani
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Communication Performance ◽  
Government Communication ◽  
Depth Interviews

This study was conducted in the midst of the lack of studies on local government communication in developing countries. Existing studies tend to attribute performance in this area to central government. The contribution of this study is related to exploring the practice of government communication in the context of local government in countries towards democracy. The author uses the communication of the local government of South Kalimantan Province in its services to stakeholders as a case study. The results of the analysis of various documents, observations and in-depth interviews related to the communication performance of local government in South Kalimantan from January to October 2020 were compiled and analyzed using Miles and Huberman data analysis techniques. In conclusion, the results of the study show that the quality of local government communication is influenced by various factors, both structural and management. Although management factors remain important, in the case of South Kalimantan, structural factors have more influence on local government communications. While the communication performance of local government has not involved active participation from the bottom, it is more elite-oriented than public-oriented. Local government officials are less responsive and still communicate downward, so that the ideas of professionalizing local government communication are still limited to expectations rather than reality. This study recommends that local government communication can be effective if it is participatory, ie has a vision and mission of community empowerment and citizen involvement in participation for local government policy planning and implementation.

Information strategies and affective reactions: How citizens interact with government social media content

First Monday ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nic DePaula ◽  
Ersin Dincelli
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Local Government ◽  
User Interaction ◽  
The United States ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
Government Communication ◽  
Information Strategies

As social media use grows among the general population, government organizations around the world also widely adopt the platforms. While researchers on government use of social media first acknowledged the potential of these technologies for participatory democracy, transparency, and collaboration, we have come to learn that applications such as Facebook and Twitter are also sites for misinformation and highly driven by emotional content. To better understand the information strategies of governments and how citizens react on social media, we ask the following research questions: What do government organizations post on social media? How do citizens react to the content posted by government agencies? For this study, we collected Facebook posts of local government agencies and departments across the United States and categorized each post using a framework of government communication and information strategies on social media. We then analysed differences in users’ reactions in the form of likes, comments, and shares to the distinct types of content. We wanted to capture the effects of content type on user reactions to understand what drives social media responses. We found a number of statistically significant results, providing some evidence for how different types of information affect user interaction. Our results highlight how users are more engaged by the affective and symbolic nature of social media content, rather than more serious and emotionally neutral government information. We only provide generalized evidence of how users react to U.S. local government posts on Facebook. Nevertheless, we believe this study is important for scholars of government communication and government technology adoption more broadly as it provides evidence of the affective tendencies and biases within social media environments.

scholarly journals CENTRAL GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATION WITH REGIONS IN HANDLING COVID-19 IN DKI JAKARTA THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vindhi Putri Pratiwi ◽  
Sanny Nofrima ◽  
Titin Purwaningsih
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Social Media Data ◽  
Good Communication ◽  
Government Communication ◽  
Data Application ◽  
Media Data

This article aims to find out the communication relationship between the central government and local government in handling Covid-19. In analyzing the data using descriptive qualitative methods and processed using NVIVO 12 Plus is a processed data application to analyze online and social media data so that researchers can use the application to manage the data until there is no set time limit. Handling the spread of coronavirus is the responsibility of the central government. However, since the decentralization in Indonesia, it is also the authority of the local government itself to determine the policies that must be carried out related to the handling of the coronavirus or covid-19 outbreak. DKI Jakarta is one of the areas exposed to corona virus with the most confirmed cases. Policies carried out by local governments are also in a race against the policies of the central government. So that there is a good communication intergration between the central government and local government.

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