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What is Nonpublic forum

Chapter 2
Handbook of Research on Public Information Technology
A government-owned place on which the government has not opened for discourse by some specific class.
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Government Web Sites as Public Forums
Pearson Liddell Jr. (Mississippi State University, USA), Robert S. Moore (Mississippi State University, USA), Melissa Moore (Mississippi State University, USA), William D. Eshee (Mississippi State University, USA), and Gloria J. Liddell (Mississippi State University, USA)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 10
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-857-4.ch002
Abstract
Public managers who are the gatekeepers regarding the informational content of communication systems have to be especially cognizant of which resources to provide on public owned systems. At times, online solutions provided by the government may involve referring citizens to for-profit firms through hyperlinks on governmentowned Web sites (Sellitto & Burgess, 2005). The inclusion of one firm over another on government Government Web Sites as Public Forums Web sites has been noted to be a real concern for public managers (Menzel, 1998). In this article, we employ a legal perspective to examine the ramifications of public information strategies that allow firms to have hyperlinks embedded within the content of public information systems. This perspective allows the public information manager to make informed decisions when developing government portal strategies.
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