Description
There were several important themes in chapter 1. Here are a few quotes:
“Policy-making and its subsequent implementation is necessary to deal with societal problems.” (Janssen, 2015)
“Policy-making is driven by the need to solve societal problems and should result in interventions to solve these societal problems.” (Janssen, 2015)
“Examples of societal problems are unemployment, pollution, water quality, safety, criminality, well-being, health, and immigration.” (Janssen, 2015)
The author of chapter 1 discusses several developments that influence policy-making. Select one of the developments in chapter 1 and describe how that development can influence policy to solve a specific problem.
You must do the following:
1) Create a new thread. As indicated above, select one of the developments in chapter 1 and describe how that development can influence policy to solve a specific problem.
2) Select AT LEAST 3 other students' threads and post substantive comments on those threads. Your comments should extend the conversation started with the thread.
ALL original posts and comments must be substantive. (I'm looking for about a paragraph - not just "I agree.")
References
Janssen, M., Wimmer, M. A., & Deljoo, A. (Eds.). (2015). Policy practice and digital science: Integrating complex systems, social simulation and public administration in policy research (Vol. 10). Springer.
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Social Media Influence on Health Policy-Making
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COMPUTER SCIENCE
Introduction
Today, people live in a mordent world where everything has changed due to
technological advancements. One of the things which have been greatly affected by this
advancement is policy-making (Janssen, Wimmer, & deljoo, 2015). It is moving towards
adoption and implementation of effective strategies that help in solving the societal problems
with ease. The technological advancement becomes associated with some developments which
have some weight on the way the policy process. Such procedure addresses the arising societal
issues; for instance, social media can influence policy to solve health problems (Lawrence et al.,
2019).
Social media interpolation gets referred to as prearranged and purposive engagements
that use a variety of media platforms to persuade, motivate, and inform the public. In health, it
gets considered as a way of passing health-related information. Additionally, they influence the
health behavior of an individual.
Media intermediatio...