Abstract

Government agencies are increasingly integrating social media into their websites to enhance the potential of participation, interaction and collaboration among the governmental agencies and their stakeholders. This study examines the content analysis of the Jordanian governmental websites to find out how many of these are making use of the proliferation of the social media to have a presence there. The results, however, show a shy attempt by some websites, leaving the others totally out of the picture, making even that attempt unable to reach a satisfactory level of making use of the online tools known as social media for reaping more fruitful benefits.

Keywords:

Governmental websites, Jordan, online networks, social media,

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