Citizen Voices
Performing Public Participation in Science and Environment Communication
Distributed for Intellect Ltd
231 pages
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7 x 9
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© 2012
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents
Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
Louise Phillips, Anabela Carvalho and Julie Doyle
Part I: Public Participation and Media
2. When Citizens Matter in the Mass Mediation of Science: The Role of Imagined Audiences in Multidirectional Communication Processes
Ursula Plesner
3. Contested Ethanol Dreams—Public Participation in Environmental News
Annika Egan Sjölander and Anna Maria Jönsson
4. Citizen Action and Post-Socialist Journalism: The Responses of Journalists to a Citizen Campaign against Government Policy towards Smoking
Pavel P. Antonov
5. Discourse Communities as Catalysts for Science and Technology Communication
Hedwig te Molder
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
7. Communicating about Climate Change in a Citizen Consultation: Dynamics of Exclusion and Inclusion
Louise Phillips
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
9. The Stem Cell NetWork: Communicating Social Science through a Spatial Installation
Maja Horst
10. Issue-centered Exploration with a Citizen Panel: Knowledge Communication and ICTs in Participatory City Governance
Pauliina Lehtonen and Jarkko Bamberg
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
Louise Phillips, Anabela Carvalho and Julie Doyle
Part I: Public Participation and Media
2. When Citizens Matter in the Mass Mediation of Science: The Role of Imagined Audiences in Multidirectional Communication Processes
Ursula Plesner
3. Contested Ethanol Dreams—Public Participation in Environmental News
Annika Egan Sjölander and Anna Maria Jönsson
4. Citizen Action and Post-Socialist Journalism: The Responses of Journalists to a Citizen Campaign against Government Policy towards Smoking
Pavel P. Antonov
5. Discourse Communities as Catalysts for Science and Technology Communication
Hedwig te Molder
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
7. Communicating about Climate Change in a Citizen Consultation: Dynamics of Exclusion and Inclusion
Louise Phillips
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
9. The Stem Cell NetWork: Communicating Social Science through a Spatial Installation
Maja Horst
10. Issue-centered Exploration with a Citizen Panel: Knowledge Communication and ICTs in Participatory City Governance
Pauliina Lehtonen and Jarkko Bamberg
Review Quotes
International Journal of Communication
"Citizen Voices is most satisfying in the way it interrogates, contextualizes, and challenges the all-too-familiar concepts of public participation and dialogue in a field generally considered complex."
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