• The role of social networking services in eParticipation 

      Sæbø, Øystein; Rose, Jeremy; Nyvang, Tom (Lecture Notes in Computer Science;5694, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2009)
      A serious problem in eParticipation projects is citizen engagement – citizens do not necessarily become more willing to participate simply because net-services are provided for them. Most forms of eParticipation in democratic ...
    • The shape of eParticipation: Characterizing an emerging research area 

      Sæbø, Øystein; Rose, Jeremy; Flak, Leif Skiftenes (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2008)
      The phenomenon of eParticipation is receiving increasing attention, demonstrated by recent technology implementations, experiments, government reports, and research programs. Understanding such an emerging field is a complex ...
    • Social Media as Public Sphere: A Stakeholder Perspective 

      Johannessen, Marius Rohde; Sæbø, Øystein; Flak, Leif Skiftenes (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Purpose Despite the potential of social media, it has proven difficult to get people actively involved in the decision-making processes. There is a need for more research on how stakeholders manage and use social media to ...
    • The support for different democracy models by the use of a web-based discussionboard 

      Sæbø, Øystein; Nilsen, Hallgeir (Lecture Notes in Computer Science;3183, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2004)
      Different initiatives are initiated to utilize ICT to maintain and develop democracy. Democracy models are developed to explain differences between different democracies. This paper reports from a case study where a web-based ...
    • Sustainability influence in the Norwegian IT sector 

      Kleiva, Sophie (Master thesis, 2022)
      Adopting sustainability practices into business model has become quite applicable for organizations to do. There are adding up more demands relating to working more sustainable to help save and improve the planet and ...
    • Towards a cumulative tradition in e-Government Research: Going beyond the Gs and Cs 

      Flak, Leif Skiftenes; Sein, Maung K.; Sæbø, Øystein (Lecture Notes in Computer Science;4656, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2007)
      The emerging research area of e-Government is gradually moving towards a level of maturity on the back of increasingly rigorous empirical research. Yet, there has been little theoretical progress and a cumulative tradition ...
    • Understanding eParticipation services in indonesian local government 

      Wahid, Fathul; Sæbø, Øystein (Lecture Notes in Computer Science;8407, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      This study aims at understanding how local government from a developing country, in this case Indonesia, implement and manage eParticipation services. In doing so, we combine institutional theory and stakeholder theory to ...
    • Understanding the dynamics in e-Participation initiatives: Looking through the genre and stakeholder lenses 

      Sæbø, Øystein; Flak, Leif Skiftenes; Sein, Maung K. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      Conventionally, e-Participation initiatives are considered to be successful only if users use these services. While the growing body of e-Participation literature has listed and studied challenges and barriers to achieving ...
    • Understanding TwitterTM use among Parliament representatives: A genre analysis 

      Sæbø, Øystein (Lecture Notes in Computer Science;6847, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      This article examines parliament representatives’ Twitter- contributions (tweets). First, the genre of communication approach is introduced to identify common characteristics and communication patterns. Second, the findings ...
    • What is e-Government? Introducing a Work System Framework for understanding e-Government 

      Lindgren, Ida; Melin, Ulf; Sæbø, Øystein (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      In this paper, we present a comprehensive and distilled model that can help researchers to 1) enter the e-government field, 2) understand what the field mainly studies in a distilled way, and 3) reflect on further research ...