Public engagement in science and technology using holography (Conference Presentation)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro M. Pombo ◽  
Emanuel Santos
Keyword(s):  
Public Engagement ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Public Engagement In Science

Borgernes stemmer i klimadebatten – hvilken vej blæser de globale vinde?

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-49
Author(s):  
Birgit Jæger ◽  
Erling Jelsøe ◽  
Louise Philips ◽  
Annika Agger
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Global Citizen ◽  
Innovative Design ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Public Engagement With Science ◽  
Public Engagement In Science

Det globale arrangement World Wide Views on Global Warming (WWViews) var et innovativt eksperiment med borgerinddragelse i komplicerede videnskabelige og tekniske problemstillinger. Formål med WWViews var at skabe en fælles global borgerstemme, hvis budskaber skulle kommunikeres til de politiske delegationer, der skulle mødes på FNs klimakonference COP 15 i København i december 2009. Denne artikel er baseret på et empirisk studie af det WWViews arrangement, der blev gennemført i København. Teoretisk trækker vi på teorier om deliberativt demokrati og teorier om borgerinddragelse i tekniske og videnskabelige problemstillinger. Analysen fokuserer på, hvordan borgernes dialog blev institutionelt rammesat som en deliberativ proces. Analysen inkluderer således refleksioner over, hvordan processen var designet, hvordan forskellige typer af viden og ekspertidentiteter blev konstrueret og forhandlet, samt hvordan deltagerne oplevede at være en del af arrangementet. Eftervirkningerne af arrangementet, herunder relationen til COP 15, bliver vurderet i den afsluttende diskussion om den fremtidige brug af WWViews som metode til global borgerinddragelse. ENGELSK ABSTRACT: Birgit Jæger, Erling Jelsøe, Louise Phillips and Annika Agger: Citizens’ Voices in the Climate Debate: Which Way Does the Global Wind Blow? The global event World Wide Views on Global Warming (WWViews) was an innovative experiment with public engagement in science and technology, aiming to create a ”global citizen voice” on climate change. The purpose of WWViews was to convey the opinions of ordinary citizens to political decision-makers at The United Nations Climate Summit, COP 15, in Copenhagen in December 2009. This article is based on a study of the Danish WWViews event, drawing on theoretical perspectives of deliberative democracy and studies of public engagement with science. The focus of the article is on the manner in which citizen deliberations were institutionally framed as an exercise in deliberative democracy. The analysis includes reflections on how the process was designed, how different types of knowledge and expert identities were constructed and negotiated, and how the participants experienced being a part of the event. The implications of the event and its relation to COP 15 are also considered in the discussion about WWViews as an innovative design for global public engagement in science and technology. Key words: Public engagement, deliberative democracy, climate changes, global citizen voice.

scholarly journals The potential opportunities and limitations of Public Engagement in Science and Technology

INTERIN ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-186
Author(s):  
Aline Bastos ◽  
Márcio Simeone Henriques ◽  
Clare Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Public Engagement ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Public Engagement In Science

Em vez de adotar uma abordagem de comunicação instrumental, em que o público é visto como um recipiente passivo da informação científica e que precisa ser "alfabetizado" em ciência; o foco mudou para uma abordagem que favorece uma visão dialógica e relacional da comunicação, baseada no engajamento público. Por outro lado, o engajamento público pode levar a um questionamento da própria ciência como uma instituição social, com a comunicação pública e o engajamento público a desempenhar um papel na forma como a própria ciência é capaz de controlar seu poder simbólico. Este artigo examina as tendências recentes em relação ao engajamento público em Ciência e Tecnologia (C & T), as limitações de tais abordagens e seu potencial para fortalecer a democracia e a cidadania no que diz respeito à ciência e tecnologia.

Re-visioning public engagement with emerging technology: A digital methods experiment on ‘vertical farming’

2021 ◽  
pp. 096366252199097
Author(s):  
Laurie Waller ◽  
Mascha Gugganig
Keyword(s):  
Public Engagement ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Software Tool ◽  
Emerging Technology ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Vertical Farming ◽  
Mapping Process ◽  
Digital Methods

This article presents the results of a public engagement experiment on a project trialling ‘vertical farming’, an emerging technology addressing urban food issues. The experiment developed within an issue mapping project, analysing debates about vertical farming on the digital platforms, Twitter and Instagram. The article presents a software tool designed to engage ‘offline’ publics in the issue mapping process, using images collected from Instagram. We describe testing this software tool with visitors to exhibitions of vertical farming in two science and technology museums. Our findings highlight the predominance of commercial publicity about vertical farming on Twitter and Instagram and the organisation of public attention around technological novelty. The article discusses the challenges such publicity dynamics pose to mapping issues on platforms. We suggest some ways digital methods might contribute to public engagement with technologies, like vertical farming, that are a focus of organised commercialised innovation.

scholarly journals Towards sustainable public engagement (outreach)

2016 ◽  
pp. 41-46
Author(s):  
Timothy G Harrison ◽  
Dudley E Shallcross
Keyword(s):  
Public Engagement ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Senior Management ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
First Year ◽  
Financial Cost ◽  
The Public ◽  
Full Support ◽  
Public Engagement In Science ◽  
Science Departments

There are myriad benefits to science departments that have a public engagement in science portfolio in addition to any recruitment of new undergraduates. These benefits are discussed in this paper and include: improving congruence between A level and first year undergraduate courses, training in science communication and the breaking down of barriers between the public and universities. All activity requires investment of personnel and incurs a financial cost. Small scale activities may be able to absorb this cost, but ultimately as the portfolio grows this will become an increasing drain on resources. Bristol ChemLabS Outreach has, from the very start, set out to be fully sustainable financially and in terms of personnel. A very important component is the full support of the senior management team. In this paper we discuss how we have achieved this.

Destroying iPhones: Feral science and the antithetical citizen

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 731-744 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Michael
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Science ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Public Understanding Of Science ◽  
Public Understanding ◽  
Destructive Testing ◽  
Public Engagement With Science ◽  
Youtube Videos ◽  
Understanding Of Science

This exploratory article considers the implications of a particular genre – YouTube videos of iPhone destruction – for the Citizen Science and Public Understanding of Science/Public Engagement with Science and Technology. Situating this genre within a broader TV tradition of ‘destructive testing’ programmes, there is a description of the forms of destruction visited upon the iPhone, and an analysis of the features shared by the videos (e.g. mode of address, enactments of the experiment). Drawing on the notion of the ‘idiotic’, there is a discussion of the genre that aims to treat its evident lack of scientific and citizenly ‘seriousness’ productively. In the process of this discussion, the notions of ‘feral science’ and ‘antithetical citizenship’ are proposed, and some of their ramifications for Citizen Science and Public Understanding of Science/Public Engagement with Science and Technology presented.

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