Biography

Julie Freeman is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Design at the University of Canberra. Her research interests include e-government, the broader policy contexts of government 2.0, digital democracy, public opinion, and civic participation. She is particularly interested in local e-government, having researching developments in Australia, the UK, the USA and Italy, and has tracked the impact of federal policies on local initiatives.

Julie received her PhD in Communications from Monash University in 2011, where she taught in the Communications and Media Studies program and received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Her thesis entitled ‘Local E-Government: Politics and Civic Participation’ provided a detailed case study of the impact of political representatives and policy frameworks on e-government development and the provision of online spaces for citizen engagement. In 2009, Julie, together with Brett Hutchins, published an article entitled ‘Balancing the Digital Democratic Deficit? E-Government’ in Media International Australia (no. 130, pp. 17-27).


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