'Introduction' by Brian Martin

I. Technologies shaping participation

• Wendy Varney,'Toys, play and participation' (with commentaries by Lynne Bartholomew and Sudarshan Khanna)
• Lyn Carson,'The telephone as a participatory mechanism at a local government level' (with commentaries by Ann Moyal, Wendy Sarkissian and Monica Wolf)
• Miriam Solomon,'Lap-tops against communicative democracy: international non-governmental organisations and the World Bank'

II. Public participation processes

• Gary Edmond and David Mercer, 'The politics of jury competence' (with commentaries by David Bernstein and Ian Freckelton and a response by the authors)
• Janis Birkeland, ' "Community participation" in urban project assessment (an ecofeminist analysis)' (with commentaries by Bronwyn Hayward and Paul Selman and a response by the author)
• Richard Gosden, 'Coercive psychiatry, human rights and public participation' (with commentaries by Chris Bowker, Peter Macdonald and Denise Russell and a response by the author)
• Sharon Beder, 'Public participation or public relations?' (with commentaries by Gavan McDonell and Ben Selinger)

III. Technology policy

• Rhonda Roberts, 'Policy formation and public participation in the management of technological change'
• Andy Monk, 'Participation in food industry technologies in the age of sustainability' (with commentaries by Richard Hindmarsh and Gyorgy Scrinis)
• Alan Marshall, 'Gaining a share of the final frontier' (with a commentary by Robert Zubrin and a reply by the author)

'Conclusion' by Brian Martin

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