Reference no: EM133376143
Questions:
•Find an example of the 5th estate (i.e. networked individuals). Your example can be from either Canada or a foreign country (e.g., Russia, Iran, China, Afghanistan, India, Syria, France, USA, Germany, etc.)
•Provide a brief definition of the 5th estate.
•Then, briefly describe your example, explaining the benefits OR limitations of the 5th estate in your example.
•Lastly, comment on the effectiveness of your example in holding institutions accountable in that country either in the short-term or the long-run.
• Drawing from the Clarke & Dubois (2020) reading on digitally open government (hint: you need to find the answers in the reading. And PARAPHRASE instead of using direct quotes):
•Explain WHY the changing information landscape has made it necessary for civil servants to practice "corrective blogging" when they didn't have to in the past
•Once the Canadian government's Wiki editing project attracted negative media attention, civil service managers went into a "closed government" mindset by pursuing an "error free government" . Clarke & Dubois (2020) provided two different responses that the Canadian government could/should have taken for digitally-open govt initiatives to work.
•Select ONE of the responses and discuss whether you think the response will be effective, based the arguments presented by your reading.