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Title:
Citizen voices : performing public participation in science and environment communication
Author:
Phillips, Louise (Louise J.)
ISBN:
9781841506210
Publication Information:
Bristol, UK ; Chicago : Intellect, 2012.
Physical Description:
xiv, 231 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series:
European Communication Research and Education Association series

European Communication Research and Education Association series.
Contents:
Public participation and media -- When citizens matter in the mass mediation of science : the role of imagined audiences in multidirectional communication processes / Contested ethanol dreams : public participation in environmental news / Citizen action and post-socialist journalism : the responses of journalists to a citizen campaign against government policy towards smoking / Discourse communities as catalysts for science and technology communication / Public participation and formal public engagement initiatives -- Communicating about climate change in a citizen consultation : dynamics of exclusion and inclusion / Public engagement as a field of tension between bottom-up and top-down strategies : critical discourse moments in an "energy town" / The stem cell network : communicating social science through a spatial installation / Issue-centred exploration with a citizen panel : knowledge communication and ICTs in participatory city governance
Abstract:
How is "participation" ascribed meaning and practised in science and environment communication? And how are citizen voices articulated, invoked, heard, marginalised or silenced in those processes? Citizen Voices takes its starting point in the so-called dialogic or participatory turn in scientific and environmental governance in which practices claiming to be based on principles of participation, dialogue and citizen involvement have proliferated. The book goes beyond the buzzword of "participation" in order to give empirically rich, theoretically informed and critical accounts of how citizen participation is understood and enacted in mass mediation and public engagement practices. A diverse series of studies across Europe and the US are presented, providing readers with empirical insights into the articulation of citizen voices in different national, cultural and institutional contexts. 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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