Public Engagement and Science

Authors: Dodds, Susan ; Kyle, Renee
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science & Engineering Ethics
Abstract: Despite the amount of public investment in nanotechnology ventures in the developed world, research shows that there is little public awareness about nanotechnology, and public knowledge is very limited. This is concerning given tha...
Year: 2009
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-008-9089-y

Authors: Jasanoff, Sheila
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: This article examines the idea that science is socially constructed, and discusses some frequent misunderstandings surrounding this concept. The author describes Tseveral features of scientific inquiry that have been usefully illum...
Year: 1996

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Authors: Jamieson, Dale
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: The author discusses public expectations of science, and offers some suggestions about how to navigate through these challenges. As budgets for science continue to shrink, science will be facing a series of contradictory demands fro...
Year: 1995
DOI: http://www.springerlink.com/content/11x71x844k7053r2/

Authors: Rensberger, Boyce
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: Despite a widespread impression that the public is woefully ignorant of science and cares little for the subject, U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) surveys show the majority are very interested and understand that they are not ...
Year: 2000
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-000-0014-2

Authors: Parks, Robert L.
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: The author, a representative of the American Physical Society in Washington, discusses recent and past issues of questionable scientific research, how a member of the public can spot fraudulent science, media coverage of exciting bu...
Year: 2000

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Authors: Wynne, Brian
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Community Genetics
Abstract: This paper analyses the recent widespread moves to ‘restore’ public trust in science by developing an avowedly two-way, public dialogue with science initiatives. The author argues that this move is a symptom of a continuing failure ...
Year: 2006
DOI: 10.1159/000092659

Authors: Rowe, Gene ; Frewer, Lynn J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science, Technology & Human Values
Abstract: This article seens to define key concepts in the domain: public communication, public consultation, and public participation. These concepts are differentiated according to the nature and flow of information between exercise sponsor...
Year: 2005
DOI: 10.1177/0162243904271724

Authors: Poliakoff, Ellen ; Webb, Thomas L.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science Communication
Abstract: Using an augmented version of the theory of planned behavior, the authors identify three factors that predicted scientists’ intentions to participate in public engagement activities, over and above their past actions. These include ...
Year: 2007
DOI: 10.1177/1075547007308009

Authors: Nisbet, Matthew C.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Environment Magazine
Abstract: This article discusses how reframing the relevance of climate change in ways Americans can re late to and the use of repetitive communication of their meaning, through trusted sources, can generate the public engagement required for...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.environmentmagazine.org/Archives/Back%20Issues/March-April%202009/Nisbet-full.html

Authors: Fahy, Declan ; Miller, Steve
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science Communication
Abstract: Describes the effectiveness of a workshop designed to help early-career scientists to perform reflexive public engagement activities in various communication situations developed by the European Science Communication Network, The p...
Year: 2009
DOI: 10.1177/1075547009339048

Authors: Scheufele, Dietram A. ; Nisbet, Matthew C.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Abstract: In this essay, we review research from the social sciences on how the public makes sense of and participates in societal decisions about science and technology. We specifically highlight the role of the media and public communicatio...
Year: 2009
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.0900041

Authors: Wynne, Brian ; Kearnes, Matthew B. ; MacNaghten, Phil
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science Communication
Abstract: In this article, the authors argue that nanotechnology represents an extraordinary opportunity to build in a robust role for the social sciences in a technology that remains at an early, and hence undetermined, stage of development....
Year: 2005
DOI: 10.1177/1075547005281531

Authors: Lewenstein, Bruce V.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science Communication
Abstract: This article introduces the special issue of Science Communication on "nanotechnology and the public." It argues that studies of "nanotechnology and the public" are important not for themselves, but for their ability to shed light o...
Year: 2005
DOI: 10.1177/1075547005281532

Authors: MacNaghten, Phil
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Geography
Abstract: This article examines the troubling relationship between emerging technologies, the uncertain and intensifying character of technological risk, and public concerns. It argues that serious gaps, dislocations and distortions exist bet...
Year: 2008

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Authors: Davies, Sarah R.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science as Culture
Abstract: This article looks at activities done at London's Dana Center around the area of public engagement with science, especially programs that engage the public and researchers in open dialogue about scientific topics. The author found t...
Year: 2009
DOI: 10.1080/09505430902870591

Authors: Felt, Ulrike ; Fochler, Maximilian
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science & Public Policy (SPP)
Abstract: This article analyses the bottom-up meanings of the concept of public participation in a public engagement exercise in Austria, and traces the variety of connotations and implications that this term was given by the participating ci...
Year: 2008
DOI: 10.3152/030234208x329086

Authors: Davis, Tinsley H.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science Communication
Abstract: This article describes the Current Science & Technology Center (CS&T) at the Museum of Science, Boston, Massachusetts, a project that seeks to engage the public with scientific research as it happens. Opened in 2001, CS&T is an evol...
Year: 2004
DOI: 10.1177/1075547004268463

Authors: Chilvers, Jason
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science, Technology & Human Values
Abstract: The "participatory turn" cutting across technical approaches for appraising environment, risk, science, and technology has been accompanied by intense debates over the desired nature, extent, and quality of public engagement in scie...
Year: 2008
DOI: 10.1177/0162243907307594

Authors: Bell, Larry
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science Communication
Abstract: The article describes how the Museum of Science in Boston has been experimenting with a variety of public engagement approaches designed to help visitors think and talk about the societal implications of nanotechnology. These approa...
Year: 2008
DOI: 10.1177/1075547007311971

Authors: Warner, Keith Douglass
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science, Technology & Human Values
Abstract: Agroecology is emerging as a systems approach to preventing agricultural pollution. Its theoreticians argue that agroecology cannot be transferred like technology but must be extended through networks of participatory social learnin...
Year: 2008
DOI: 10.1177/0162243907309851

Authors: Rothstein, Henry
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science, Technology & Human Values
Abstract: While there have been many scholarly studies looking at the rationales and mechanisms for public participation in discussing the societal implications of advances in science and technology, much less attention has been paid to the a...
Year: 2007
DOI: 10.1177/0895904805303203

Authors: Rowe, Gene ; Frewer, Lynn J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science, Technology & Human Values
Abstract: The concept of public participation is one of growing interest in the UK and elsewhere, with a commensurate growth in mechanisms to enable this. The authors of this article present one method for analyzing the effectiveness of publi...
Year: 2004
DOI: 10.1177/0162243903259197

Authors: Stirling, Andy
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science, Technology & Human Values
Abstract: Discursive deference in the governance of science and technology is rebalancing from expert analysis toward participatory deliberation. Yet, growing recognition of social agency in technology choice is countered by persistently dete...
Year: 2008
DOI: 10.1177/0162243907311265

Authors: Rowe, Gene ; Frewer, Lynn J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science, Technology & Human Values
Abstract: Imprecise definition of key terms in the “public participation” domain have hindered the conduct of good research and inhibited development and implementation of effective participation practices. In order to remedy this, this artic...
Year: 2005
DOI: 10.1177/0162243904271724

Authors: Ottinger, Gwen
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science, Technology & Human Values
Abstract: In light of arguments that citizen science has the potential to make environmental knowledge and policy more robust and democratic, this article inquires into the factors that shape the ability of citizen science to actually influen...
Year: 2010
URL: http://sth.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/35/2/244
DOI: 10.1177/0162243909337121