TY - JOUR
T1 - Local governance in the new information ecology: The challenge of building interpretative communities
AU - Cornford, James
AU - Wilson, Rob
AU - Baines, Susan
AU - Richardson, Ranald
PY - 2013/5
Y1 - 2013/5
N2 - The localism agenda in England, to the extent that it has been followed through, relies on the increasingly free availability of Government Data for its success. The availability of this Open Government Data, however, solves nothing: as many writers have pointed out, such data needs to be interpreted and interpretation is always a function of a collective – what has been called an interpretative or epistemic community. In this article we question the possibility of such local epistemic or interpretative communities emerging in the English context.
AB - The localism agenda in England, to the extent that it has been followed through, relies on the increasingly free availability of Government Data for its success. The availability of this Open Government Data, however, solves nothing: as many writers have pointed out, such data needs to be interpreted and interpretation is always a function of a collective – what has been called an interpretative or epistemic community. In this article we question the possibility of such local epistemic or interpretative communities emerging in the English context.
U2 - 10.1080/09540962.2013.785705
DO - 10.1080/09540962.2013.785705
M3 - Article
SN - 0954-0962
VL - 33
SP - 201
EP - 208
JO - Public Money and Management
JF - Public Money and Management
IS - 3
ER -