Reacting to critiques that the smart city is overly technocratic and instrumental, companies
and cities have reframed their initiatives as 'citizen-centric'. However, what 'citizen …

Early in 2009, Denis and I had coffee outside a little café in Padua, Italy. We were attending
a symposium organized by the European Journal of Communication on the consequences …

In this article, we present a cross-national comparative analysis of which online news users
in practice engage with the participatory potential for sharing and commenting on news …

This chapter reviews some of the criticisms of the universal idea of a public sphere. Drawing
on recent scholarship in social movement studies, it shows how the dynamics of the" …

We present a review of 80 papers representing efforts to support participation in democratic
decision-making mostly related to local or national governments. The papers were …

This book advances the practice and theory of design ethnography. It presents a
methodologically adventurous and conceptually robust approach to interventional and …

Introduction Page 8 Rita Schlusemann, Helwi Blom, Anna Katharina Richter, and Krystyna
Wierzbicka-Trwoga Introduction Wil man och säija sin Meening och Skääl med fåå Ordh/ som …

Problem, research strategy, and findings: Social justice is often considered the goal of
participatory planning, yet justice is typically not operationalized, broadly defined, or clearly …

For about two years, the climate youth activism initiative Fridays for Future has addressed
climate emergency, receiving considerable attention because of their consistent protests …

Most participation processes in urban planning offer poor incentives, especially for young
citizens, hence important citizen's needs are excluded. Our work aims at identifying the …