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The notion of ‘streams of decisions’ reflects the fact that decisions are interrelated in different ways and that some decisions are more important than others, as they shape the space for many other decisions. In this chapter we examine how decisions are linked, with some decisions affecting other decisions in unforeseen ways. We also introduce the notion of non-decisions: choices that are made without explicitly deliberating or communicating about them.
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Bratteteig, T., Wagner, I. (2014). Streams of Decisions. In: Disentangling Participation. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06163-4_5
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