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This research aims at building up a theoretical framework for the study of citizen participation in public policy making based on genre theory. Drawing on various perspectives on genre theory (rhetorical analysis, literary analysis, sociolinguistics, media studies, organisational communication, user interface design, and computer-mediated communication), this paper suggests a series of analytical perspectives on participatory genres, a notion freely borrowed from Erickson (1997) and applied to the methods, activities or applications of citizen participation in public policy making (e.g. consultations, petitions, citizens panels, opinion polls). The proposed theoretical framework takes into account the contexts of participation (conceived as both situations and communities) as well as the interrelationships between participatory genres, and focuses on the repertoires of elements (Lacey, 2000) that characterize participatory genres in terms of “why”, “ how”, “what”, “who/m”, when” and “where” (Orlikowski & Yates, 1998). It is argued that approaching citizen participation in public policy making through the lens of participatory genres is valuable to both researchers and practitioners.
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