Écrire, parler, documenter : enjeux normatifs et pratiques situées de l'expression dans les procédures de débat public

International audience ; Writing, speaking, documenting: normative issues and located practices in the procedures for public debate This paper provides an insight into the forms of politic mediation in participatory procedures that link online discussion's devices and face-to-face's devices. Both consist of assemblies of heterogeneous and sequenced formats (blog, forum, e-participatory assembly, etc.). The devices happen to standardize production of the debate and the debate-reflecting traces (Bonaccorsi, Julliard, 2010). We will use two empirical examples discussed in the context of a collaborative research (The formats of expression by citizens in local procedures for consultation, Concertation, Decision, Environment 2 Program funded by the Ministry of Ecology, Energy and Sustainable Development and Territorial Development) considering that within these procedures, devices and formats materialize various conceptions of public debate (Monnoyer-Smith, 2009; Street, Wright, 2007). We examine at first the European project Ideal-EU, in which, in 2008, Tuscany, Catalonia and PoitouCharentes organized a Participatory Electronic Assembly (APE) on Climate Change and developed a participatory website (www.idealdebate.eu). This project was part of the "eParticipation 2007" program and was funded by the European Commission (DG Information Society) as. We examine at second the conciliation procedure set up by a special Commission for Public Debate (CPDP) in 2009 to determine the transformation of the waste treatment center in Ivry-Paris XIII. This consultation also organized the terms of face-to-face debates (meetings) and online debates (http://www.debatpublictraitement-dechets-ivry.org/). In both cases, the participatory web site seemed to occupy a specific place. The call for proposals of the European program stressed the need, for the funded actors, to make a website as part of deliberative procedures, while the proposition of various modes of expression - including a blog - was, according to the CPDP, an indispensable ...