Não tem diretamente a ver com o uso de redes e ferramentas sociais mas os resultados deste estudo podem fornecer algumas pistas sobre o papel que a tecnologia (neste caso os SMS) podem ter no aumento da participação dos cidadãos. Fica o sumário do estudo de Grossman, G, Humphreys M, Sacramone-Lutz G. com o título Does Information Technology flatten interest articulation? Evidence from Uganda Mimeo e o link de acesso ao estudo: We use a field experiment to study how the availability and cost of political communication channels affect the efforts constituents take to influence their representatives. We presented sampled constituents in Uganda with an opportunity to send a text-message to their representatives at one of three randomly assigned prices. This allows us to ascertain whether ICTs can flatten interest articulation and how access costs determine who communicates and what gets communicated to politicians. Critically, contrary to concerns that technological innovations benefit the privileged, we find that ICT leads to significant flattening: a greater share of marginalized populations use this channel compared to existing political communication channels. Price matters too, as free messaging increase uptake by about 50%. Surprisingly, subsidy-induced increases in uptake do not yield further flattening since free channels are used at higher rates by both marginalized and well- connected constituents. More subtle strategic hypotheses find little support in the data.
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