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Author Phillips, Louise

Title Citizen Voices : Performing Public Participation in Science and Environment Communication
Published Bristol : Intellect, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (250 pages)
Series European Communication Research and Education Association series
European Communication Research and Education Association series.
Contents Cover; IFC; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; 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; Chapter 3: Contested Ethanol Dreams -- Public Participation in Environmental News; Chapter 4: Citizen Action and Post-Socialist Journalism: The Responses of Journalists to a Citizen Campaign against Government Policy towards Smoking
Chapter 5: Discourse Communities as Catalysts for Science and Technology CommunicationChapter 6: Online Talk: How Exposure to Disagreement in Online Comments Affects Beliefs in the Promise of Controversial Science; PART II: Public Participation and Formal Public Engagement Initiatives; Chapter 7: Communicating about Climate Change in a Citizen Consultation: Dynamics of Exclusion and Inclusion; Chapter 8: Public Engagement as a Field of Tension between Bottom-up and Top-down Strategies: Critical Discourse Moments in an 'Energy Town'
Chapter 9: The Stem Cell NetWork: Communicating Social Science through a Spatial InstallationChapter 10: Issue-centred Exploration with a Citizen Panel: Knowledge Communication and ICTs in Participatory City Governance; Back Cover
Summary 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 b
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Mass media
Communication in science -- Citizen participation
Communication in the environmental sciences -- Citizen participation
mass media.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
Mass media
Form Electronic book
Author Carvalho, Anabela
Doyle, Julie
ISBN 9781841507606
1841507601