Social media’s role in public administration

Mengzhong Zhang; Abdulrahman Sahli

doi:10.24294/jipd.v8i10.6472

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Social media’s role in public administration

Mengzhong Zhang

Abdulrahman Sahli

Journal of Infrastructure Policy and Development 2024, 8(10), 6472; https://doi.org/10.24294/jipd.v8i10.6472

Submitted：17 May 2024

Accepted：23 Jul 2024

Published：24 Sept 2024

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Abstract

This paper examines social media’s role in public administration. The purpose of this study is to find the extent of the role played by social media in public administration and then recommend and propose strategies to the public administrators. Social media enhances public administrators’ role and ensures that the public administration is working for the people and meeting all the needs of the people. The most important findings of the article are that public administrators are using e-governance and other modern digital technologies for communication, which have helped in decreasing corruption and bringing people closer to the government because they can use the government tools directly and there are possibilities of two-way communication. Corruption is one of the major problems, and most of the studies have shown that corruption can be reduced with the help of social media tools used by the public administrators. We propose a theory that governance framework is impacted by social media tools, e-governance methods, and open communication methods.

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