eParticipation is gaining more and more attention in public discourse.The purpose of this chapter is to describe and discuss how reproduction of certain user-values and power relations becomes technologically embedded during a process of customisation of a consultation tool, intended for online participation.The analysis and the discussion in this chapter is based on ethnographic participatory observations and interviews within a R&D project. The aim of the project was to broaden the scope of participation concerning spatial planning in a Swedish municipality. A prototype of the tool was also tested by a group of citizens. The findings of the study are discussed and analysed with the help of concepts derived from situated and relational theories. The overall objective is thus to develop methods for how to handle local processes of setting the stage for eParticipation.

Boken presenterar nutida pågående forskning inom eDeltagande (eParticiaption)och består sammanlagt av 14 kapitel. Författarens bidrag (kapitel 4)beskriver och dikskuterar situering av eDeltagande, utifrån studier av lokal praxis och användarmedverkan i anpassning av ett IT-baserat verktyg för utökad konsultation inom kommunal översiktsplanering.