CENSORSHIP AND COPYRIGHT

Censorship and Copyright

Censorship and Copyright

Introduction

Government information has long been seen as a public good. Dissemination of government information teaches the citizenry, increases government transparency, and promotes economic development. The current literature sees government Web sites as significant devices allowing bureaus to increase the allowance of information dynamically disseminated to the public while decreasing paper publishing and mailing costs.

Recently, government agency world wide web sites have come under bigger inspection due to information censorship and cost concerns. In terms of censorship, critics ascribe that bureaus change, eliminate, or bypass posting Web content that presents the agency, the present management, or present principles in a critical light. Further, in the title of nationwide security, bureaus have removed potentially perceptive information from world wide web sites. From a cost viewpoint, e- government scholars and data managers issue to problems with “data overload” as bureaus place too much content on their Web sites and charges for sustaining Web content climbs to higher than anticipated levels.

These concerns about censorship and costs point to the need to realise more about how bureaus conclude what content to publish on the Web. But the publications actually contains couple of studies describing bureau staff work practices associated to world wide web content.

This paper describes an exploratory case study of textual content output for Internet world wide web sites at four bureaus in one Midwestern state. The study used an exploratory case approach and a grounded theory methodology to evolve a wealthy comprehending of how bureau world wide web staff conceptualized text content and what factors world wide web employees perceived as influencing text content production.

This study's aim on textual content groups it apart from other e- government research on applications-based content such as e-voting or service registration schemes. While significant, these studies are inclined to overlook textual content such as program descriptions, often asked questions (FAQs), accounts, or instructions. But text content comprises a important piece of bureau Web content. Further, studies suggest that citizen demand for textual information is very high , sometimes higher than demand for interactive applications. Finally, because little study has analyzed the output and management of textual content, it is not clear how administration of textual content disagrees from administration of submissions content, or to what degree the courses drawn from investigations of e- government applications apply to textual content. The proceeded importance and ubiquity of textual content in government Web sites, the high public demand for textual content, and the need of previous study focusing on output and management of textual content necessitate study concentrated on its exclusive attributes and administration issues.

Web site evaluation studies often analyze textual content; but they tend to aim on users' perceptions, usability facets, and externally perceivable facets of content. For demonstration, investigations assess the occurrence, absence, or quantity of certain kinds of textual content encompassing authorized principles (e.g., security, privacy), Ownership data, contact data, last update data, annotations, translations, and conspicuously outdated information. Other investigations have analyzed how often world wide web ...