Building the economic-public relationship: learning from science communication and science studies.

Medvecky, Fabien; Macknight, Vicki

doi:10.22323/2.16020201

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“…Several authors emphasize the importance of taking audience diversity (and consequently diverse needs) seriously and avoiding the notion of a single public [ 55 , 73 , 86 , 94 , 96 ]. Munshi et al for example, highlight the need “to go beyond a generic notion of public engagement that assumes the public to be one homogeneous category” and warn of the dangers of tokenistic engagement with minority groups [ 81 , p. 288].…”

Section: The Academic Discourse On Engagementmentioning

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Public engagement with science—Origins, motives and impact in academic literature and science policy

2021

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‘Public engagement with science’ has become a ‘buzzword’ reflecting a concern about the widening gap between science and society and efforts to bridge this gap. This study is a comprehensive analysis of the development of the ‘engagement’ rhetoric in the pertinent academic literature on science communication and in science policy documents. By way of a content analysis of articles published in three leading science communication journals and a selection of science policy documents from the United Kingdom (UK), the United States of America (USA), the European Union (EU), and South Africa (SA), the variety of motives underlying this rhetoric, as well as the impact it has on science policies, are analyzed. The analysis of the science communication journals reveals an increasingly vague and inclusive definition of ‘engagement’ as well as of the ‘public’ being addressed, and a diverse range of motives driving the rhetoric. Similar observations can be made about the science policy documents. This study corroborates an earlier diagnosis that rhetoric is running ahead of practice and suggests that communication and engagement with clearly defined stakeholder groups about specific problems and the pertinent scientific knowledge will be a more successful manner of ‘engagement’.

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Section: The Academic Discourse On Engagementmentioning

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Public engagement with science—Origins, motives and impact in academic literature and science policy

2021

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“…First, informal discussions include science festivals (Bultitude et al 2011) and science cafés (Dijkstra 2017). Second, events concerning science financing can be divided into standard funding policy decisions (Rowe et al 2010), participatory budgeting (Medvecky and Macknight 2017), and civic crowdfunding. Civic crowdfunding contains not only a selection of appropriate research projects for financing, but also funding itself made by the public (Stiver et al 2015).…”

Section: Public Engagement With Science Its Forms and Consequencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Open Science and the Science-Society Relationship

Lakomý

Hlavová

Macháčková

2019

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Nowadays, the prevailing trend in the science-society relationship is to engage with the broader public, which is beneficial for the public, scientific institutes, scientific findings, and the legitimacy of science as a whole. This article provides a broad review of the rapidly growing research on Open Science and identifies the gaps in the current knowledge for future research. The review focuses on the science-society relationship, such that knowledge from this field is summarised and systematised. Insight into the most salient topics, including science communication, public engagement with science, public cognition of science, and challenges and potential unintended consequences connected to interactions with the public are examined. The first section of the paper focuses on science communication which involves efforts and approaches to inform the public about science by the most effective means. The section on public engagement reviews how scientists and scientific institutions are increasingly involved in direct interactions with the public and different groups of stakeholders to make science more open. The section focusing on public cognition of science provides information about public knowledge, perception, and trust regarding science, which both determines and is formed by public engagement. Last, risks, ethical issues, and data issues connected to the implementation of Open Science principles are reviewed, as there are many unintended consequences of Open Science which are examined by this current research. In conclusion, research covering the science-society relationship is rapidly growing. However, it brings multiple challenges as well as opportunities which are captured and discussed in a variety of existing studies. This article provides a coherent overview of this field in order to bring more comprehensible knowledge to scientists, scientific institutions, and outreach professionals.

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“…Unlike standard practice with focus groups who are only consulted for deciding attributes, we wanted to also engage our participants from the start in determining which valuation method we'd be using. For this, we drew on the ideas of public engagement with science, citizen/participatory science, and engaged research as a process (Irwin 1995;Grand 2015;Medvecky and Macknight 2017). This allowed our participants an opportunity to think about what could be counted as valuable and how we, as a group, might go about counting it.…”

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‘It’s not like any survey I’ve ever seen before’: Discrete Choice Experiments as a Valuation Technology

Macknight

Medvecky

2021

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This paper unpacks what happened when members of the local community were invited to design and test a valuation tool – specifically a discrete choice experiment – to find a valuation for New Zealand’s Otago Peninsula. We argue that the assumptions that lie within a discrete choice experiment are revealed when we look closely at how community participants react to the discrete choice experiment survey they have helped design. These assumptions, usually unnoticed, include the necessity of making trade-offs; what actions are possible; the ‘reality’ of one’s preference structures; the need for abstraction; and the importance of big picture patterns. We also argue that how these assumptions are negotiated in practice depends on complex power relationships between researchers, participants, and the technology itself. While we might seek to ‘empower’ the community with knowledge of economic processes and valuation practices, this might not be the empowerment they seek. Participants find ways to be active negotiators in the face of valuation technologies.

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Building the economic-public relationship: learning from science communication and science studies.

Cited by 6 publications

References 42 publications

Public engagement with science—Origins, motives and impact in academic literature and science policy

Public engagement with science—Origins, motives and impact in academic literature and science policy

Open Science and the Science-Society Relationship

‘It’s not like any survey I’ve ever seen before’: Discrete Choice Experiments as a Valuation Technology

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