Abstract
This research borrows materials from analytical models, such as Government Information Valuation (GIV) models, to construct new methodological tools to study e-governance. The new tools developed here will help scholars better represent the spectrum of e-governance stakeholders and their information (and data) needs. The particular information needs that contextualize this research are those of marginalized communities who are confronted with quality of life issues, such as environmental injustice. First, however, this research critically analyzes the assumptions that shape the scholarship. Current methodological approaches reflect e-governance scholars' unacknowledged use of procedural rights of democracy as conceptual guides. Since these approaches limit attention to social welfare and quality of life goals, the e-governance literature largely homogenizes stakeholders, their political interests, and their disparate information needs.