Summary: | Operative feedback between authors of publications and readers as well as between readers
themselves determines considerable growth of portals with commenting functions.
Unfortunately, the advantages of commenting are not used in the portals of public institutions.
Therefore, this paper surveys internet commenting influence in the e-democracy development,
involving the communities into decision making processes. The paper investigates, if the
electronic discussions can support realization of principles of publicity, society interests
importance and community involvement into the public management, mainly highlighted in
theory of public administration and new public management.
The main problem, why commenting functions are not being deployed in the portals of
institutions, is inefficiency of commenting process regulation. So far used methods of comments
regulation – simple moderation and automoderation – are inefficient (slow, subjective) when
there are huge amount of users, consequently, these methods do not fit to the portals of public
institutions. This paper surveys new method of commenting regulation – comoderation – which
is based on user self-regulation and comment rating, consequently, more efficient. So, adopting
of comoderation in the portals could provide a powerful tool for fast and purposeful changing of
ideas between officials and citizens.
The investigation of commenting and comment rating needs in the portals of institutions is
performed due to purpose to... [to full text]
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