This book concentrates exclusively on the dialogic turn in the governance of science and the environment. The starting point for this book is the dialogic turn in the production and communication of knowledge in which practices claiming to be based on principles of dialogue and participation have spread across diverse social fields. As in other fields of social practice in the dialogic turn, the model of communication underpinning science and environmental governance is dialogue in which scientists and citizens engage in mutual learning on the basis of the different knowledge forms that they bring with them. The official aim is to involve citizens in processes of decision-making on scientific and environmental issues, including issues relating to the built environment such as urban planning. The attempt in this book has been made to build bridges across the fields of science and technology studies, environmental studies and media and communication studies in order to provide theoretically informed and empirically rich accounts of how citizen voices are articulated, invoked, heard, marginalised or silenced in science and environment communication.
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Building bridges across media and communication studies, science and technology studies, environmental studies and urban planning studies, Citizen Voices also offers a range of different theories and research methodologies which foreground the role of communication processes in scientific and environmental governance.
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Chapter 1: Introduction – Louise Phillips, Anabela Carvalho and Julie Doyle PART I: Public Participation and Media  Chapter 2: When Citizens Matter in the Mass Mediation of Science: The Role of Imagined Audiences in Multidirectional Communication Processes – Ursula Plesner Chapter 3: Contested Ethanol Dreams – Public Participation in Environmental News – Annika Egan Sjölander and Anna Maria Jönsson  Chapter 4: Citizen Action and Post-Socialist Journalism: The Responses of Journalists to a Citizen Campaign against Government Policy towards Smoking – Pavel P. Antonov Chapter 5: Discourse Communities as Catalysts for Science and Technology Communication – Hedwig te Molder Chapter 6: Online Talk: How Exposure to Disagreement in Online Comments Affects Beliefs in the Promise of Controversial Science – Ashley A. Anderson, Dominique Brossard, Dietram A. Scheufele and Michael A. Xenos PART II: Public Participation and Formal Public Engagement Initiatives  Chapter 7: Communicating about Climate Change in a Citizen Consultation: Dynamics of Exclusion and Inclusion – Louise Phillips Chapter 8: Public Engagement as a Field of Tension between Bottom-up and Top-down Strategies: Critical Discourse Moments in an ‘Energy Town’ – Anders Horsbøl and Inger Lassen Chapter 9: The Stem Cell NetWork: Communicating Social Science through a Spatial Installation – Maja Horst Chapter 10: Issue-centred Exploration with a Citizen Panel: Knowledge Communication and ICTs in Participatory City Governance – Pauliina Lehtonen and Jarkko Bamberg
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'This focus on the dialogic process is both timely and stimulating, given the increasing inclusion of public participation in governance processes, particularly in relation to development of government policy on environmental science.' 
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781841506210
Publisert
2012-12-15
Utgiver
Vendor
Intellect Books
Vekt
404 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
178 mm
Dybde
13 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
231

Biographical note

Louise Phillips is associate professor in the Department of Communication, Business, and Information Technologies at the University of Roskilde.