To be or not to be active: exploring practices of e-participation

  • Authors:
  • Annelie Ekelin

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Interaction and System Design, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Ronneby, Sweden

  • Venue:
  • EGOV'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Electronic Government
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper discusses the interplay of participation and non-participation within institutional and public practices of electronically mediated policy-making in the local public sector. The aim is to contribute to practice-centred development of situated theoretical conceptualisation in the research domain. Applying a dialectical analysis, including also examples and processes of dissociation detected in ethnographic studies of actual use and design of these technologies, suggests a re-specification of the conceptual basis of e-participation.