@inbook{4897f4ebe2c84f42946c208664800228,
title = "Transport infrastructure, Twitter and the politics of public participation",
abstract = "Social media is changing how many local communities seek to mobilize alternative political strategies to disrupt planning processes. The focus of this chapter is the social media and hashtag (#) use of citizens on Twitter during the planning and construction of the WestConnex motorway project in Sydney, Australia. To this end, this chapter applies a post-political lens to investigate alternative political strategies mobilized through Twitter to highlight equity issues relating to public participation, transparency and health impacts on the community. Of particular interest is hashtag use as a form of alternative politics. This chapter identifies the extensive use of Twitter as an additional communications channel to raise concerns at a local community level, and at a broader political level during a 2019 political election.",
keywords = "public participation, Twitter, hashtags, post-political, Australia",
author = "Wayne Williamson",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-76059-5_6",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783030760588",
series = "The Urban Book Series",
publisher = "Springer, Springer Nature",
pages = "93--108",
editor = "Geertman, {S. C. M.} and Christopher Pettit and Robert Goodspeed and Aija Staffans",
booktitle = "Urban informatics and future cities",
address = "United States",
}