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increased sharing of posted information deserve
further consideration.
As a future project, will be tested another e-
democratic tool that permits automatic measuring of
the effectiveness of e-participation, the Democratic
Citizenship Community (Maciel and Garcia, 2007a).
The results of the application of this survey allow for
some modifications in the modeling suggested for
the virtual community.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This research is partially supported by the Fundation
CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento Pessoal
de Nível Superior), from Brazil. We would like to
express thanks to the researchers Flavia Cristina
Bernardini (ADDLabs), Patricia Cristiane de Souza
(UFMT) and Alexandre Veloso de Matos
(Universidade de Coimbra) for the contributions and
discussions about this paper.
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