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To Be or Not to Be Active: Exploring Practices of e-Participation

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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.

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  1. Department of Interaction and System Design, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Box 520, SE-372 25, Ronneby, Sweden

    Annelie Ekelin

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  1. Institute for IS Research, University of Koblenz-Landau, Universitätsstr. 1, 56070, Koblenz, Germany

    Maria A. Wimmer

  2. The Information School, University of Washington, 98195-2840, Seattle, WA, USA

    Hans J. Scholl

  3. ESI/Informatics, Örebro University, 701 82, Örebro, Sweden

    Åke Grönlund

  4. Copenhagen Business School, Centre for Applied ICT, 60 Howitzvej, 2000, Frederiksberg, DK

    Kim Viborg Andersen

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Ekelin, A. (2006). To Be or Not to Be Active: Exploring Practices of e-Participation. In: Wimmer, M.A., Scholl, H.J., Grönlund, Å., Andersen, K.V. (eds) Electronic Government. EGOV 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4084. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11823100_10

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