Od informowania do współdecydowania i z powrotem. Prototypowanie technologicznej demokracji
From Informing to Making Decisions Together – and Back Again. Prototyping Technological Democracy

Summary/Abstract: Using the example of shale gas exploration in Poland, the article brings up the problem of public participation in decision making on controversial energy innovations. Based on theoretical approaches from science and technology studies, sociology of risk and participatory technology governance, the authors present an analysis of a pilot dialogue programme on shale gas, conducted in a small community in North Poland, Mikołajki Pomorskie in 2013. The goal of the article is to study how the participatory approach works in social practice: to what degree is the inclusion of various stakeholders groups possible in decision making processes regarding innovative technological investments. The conducted analysis shows that although in the theory a shift from informing to making decision together has been made, participatory activities may in social practice make a loop and come back to “information and education” as main goals of communication with the public.

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