The Role of Social Media in the Local e-Government

Abstract

In recent years, the social media have received increasing attention from local governments. By the way, how many local governments use the social media? The results of research that I accessed the website of all local governments in Japan, I found out that about 60% of local governments has used social media. However, social media has been used as a new public relations tool in some local governments. In other words, some local governments are using social media merely as the means of “publication” and they have not been able to find the meaning of “social” media.