“…Case studies of participation within other fields and community settings have proliferated as innovations in participation have themselves diffused globally across sectors. The expansive literature on participation in work organizations is accompanied by distinct and lively literatures on the implications of participation in urban politics (Adams 2007;Alford 1969;Baiocchi 2003;Barnes, Newman, and Sullivan 2007;Bingham, Nabatchi, and O'Leary 2005;Silver, Scott, and Kazepov 2010;Sirianni and Friedland 2001), environmental politics (Agrawal and Gibson 1999;Dietz and Stern 2008;Koontz 1999;Pellow 1999;Sabel, Fung, and Karkkainen 2000;Singleton 2000;Thomas 2001), science and health care (Banaszak-Holl, Levitsky, and Zald 2010;Chilvers and Kearnes 2015;Epstein 2007;Kedrowski and Sarow 2007;Levitsky 2008;McCormick et al 2003;Thorpe and Gregory 2010), and global development (Bastian, Bastian, and Nivaran 1996;Brunt and McCourt 2012;Cleaver 1999;Elyachar 2002;Hickey and Mohan 2004;Kothari and Minogue 2002;Rao 2004, 2013;Sivaramakrishnan and Agrawal 2003). 3 Scholars in art, media, and communications have been particularly intrigued by the ways that new technologies and innovative practices might reshape fields traditionally seen as reliant on solitary geniuses or top-down corporate and state monopolies (Carty 2010;Chadwick 2013;Chen 2009;Delwiche and Henderson 2013;Earl and Kimport 2011;Fish et al 2011;Gainous and Wagner 2013;...…”