Oxford, 13 - 14 March 2013

Category Archives: ECF2012

The web presence of youth organizations – Janelle Ward

Communicating citizenship online: The web presence of youth organizations Introduction The research focuses on how U.K.-based youth organizations address young people online. It provides insight into choices about web presence while keeping in mind their conception of citizenship. The conventional realm of citizenship encourages a mainstream, more traditionally accepted means to admirable citizenship: casting aRead more

Citizen participation in the e-campaign – Rachel Gibson

Citizen participation in the e-campaign Rachel K. Gibson (University of Manchester), Marta Cantijoch (University of Manchester) and Stephen Ward (University of Salford) This short paper examines the extent of citizen involvement via digital technology in the 2010 UK General Election campaign. We show through original data from a post-election survey how parties and citizens usedRead more

Getting them involved – Darren Lilleker

Getting them involved: attracting and empowering supporters Darren G. Lilleker (Bournemouth University) dlilleker@bournemouth.ac.uk Introduction and Context Studies show it is increasingly difficult for organisations to gain volunteers to advance their campaigns. When citizens are mobilised to act, either in small ways such as signing online petitions or taking part in offline activities, the campaign mustRead more

Export with Care – Filippo Trevisan

Export with Care: Lessons from the experiences of disability organizations with ecampaigning in Britain and America This brief paper summarizes some of the key points from the author’s presentation to the 10th ECampaigning Forum, St.  Anne’s College, University of Oxford, 21-22 March 2012. Please note that this is intended as a knowledge exchange piece for the benefitRead more

Multi-level interest groups – Paul Shotton PhD

The evolution of tools and tactical choices when targeting different audiences Introduction The academic community working on interest groups has long been fragmented between those focusing on social movements, on political systems and those focusing on interest groups and their interaction with the decision-makers. With the arrival of web 1.0 and web 2.0 researchers haveRead more

Assessing success in digital campaigning – Yana Breindl

The case of digital rights in the European Union Internet‐based campaigning is regularly disqualified as “clicktivism” on the premises that the internet facilitates low input action. The paper focuses on the distributed campaign of an ad hoc coalition of digital rights activists intervening in the European Union’s Telecoms package Reform from 2007 to 2009. It examines howRead more

Ignite-style (short) presentation: Sho Konno, Champollion

Thur 22 March, 16:45 – 17:20, Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre
Graham Covington, Engaging Networks; Data collection and personalisation, Florian Engel, more onion; Salsa, Andreas Freimüller, Kampaweb; Public relations, public affairs: digital methods, Sho Konno, Champollion Digital.Read more

Ignite-style (short) presentation: Andreas Freimüller, Kampaweb

Thur 22 March, 16:45 – 17:20, Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre
Graham Covington, Engaging Networks; Data collection and personalisation, Florian Engel, more onion; Salsa, Andreas Freimüller, Kampaweb; Public relations, public affairs: digital methods, Sho Konno, Champollion Digital.Read more

Ignite-style (short) presentation: Florian Engel, more onion

Thur 22 March, 16:45 – 17:20, Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre
Graham Covington, Engaging Networks; Data collection and personalisation, Florian Engel, more onion; Salsa, Andreas Freimüller, Kampaweb; Public relations, public affairs: digital methods, Sho Konno, Champollion Digital.Read more

Small groups session 6: Open development

Thur 22 March, 15:45 – 16:45, Seminar Room 9Read more

Small groups session 5: Campaigning using someone else’s tools

Thur 22 March, 14:30 – 15:30, Seminar Room 7Read more

Small groups session 4: Campaigning with #opendata

Thur 22 March, 11:30 – 12:30, Seminar Room 8Read more