Drama, Talk, and Emotion

Harvey, Matthew

doi:10.1177/0162243907309632

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“…Recent years in particular have seen attention to the emotions connected to public presentations of science, and especially to public responses that may appear too emotional [Cook, 2004;Penders, 2017], while there is a long history of the promotion of the 'correct' emotions for engagement with science -curiosity, wonder, and awe, for instance [Daston and Park, 2001;Harrison, 2001]. At the same time scholarship of science communication has tended to focus either on learning or on public attitudes, only recently turning to the role of embodiment, aesthetics, and affect in shaping experiences of public communication [Davies, 2014;Harvey, 2009;Michael, Wilkie and Ovalle, 2018]. There is therefore a continuing need to acknowledge, and explore, emotion within science communication.…”

Section: Science Communication As Emotionalmentioning

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Science stories as culture: experience, identity, narrative and emotion in public communication of science

Davies¹,

Halpern²,

Horst³

et al. 2019

JCOM

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The last three decades have seen extensive reflection concerning how science communication should be modelled and understood. In this essay we propose the value of a cultural approach to science communication — one that frames it primarily as a process of meaning-making. We outline the conceptual basis for this view of culture, drawing on cultural theory to suggest that it is valuable to see science communication as one aspect of (popular) culture, as storytelling or narrative, as ritual, and as collective meaning-making. We then explore four possible ways that a cultural approach might proceed: by mobilising ideas about experience; by framing science communication through identity work; by focusing on fiction; and by paying attention to emotion. We therefore present a view of science communication as always entangled within, and itself shaping, cultural stories and meanings. We close by suggesting that one benefit of this approach is to move beyond debates concerning ‘deficit or dialogue’ as the key frame for public communication of science.

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Section: Science Communication As Emotionalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Science stories as culture: experience, identity, narrative and emotion in public communication of science

Davies¹,

Halpern²,

Horst³

et al. 2019

JCOM

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“…Following (Davies, 2014) and (Harvey, 2008), perhaps the fact that these formats can never target society at large and that some groups tend to be excluded from these communication encounters can be understood as a call to 20 open up the door for non-discursive aspects (e.g. objects).…”

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Building bridges between experts and the public: a comparison of two-way communication formats for flooding and air pollution risk

Loroño-Leturiondo¹,

O’Hare²,

Cook³

et al. 2018

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Urban centres worldwide are adversely affected by flooding and air pollution. Better prepared citizens are crucial to limiting the impacts of these hazards, and both lay knowledge and personal experiences are important in complementing and challenging expert opinion. For the first time, this study offers a critical comparison of how different two-way communication 10formats have been used worldwide between experts and the public in relation to flooding and air pollution risk. Through a systematic review, we analyse social media, educational programmes, serious games, citizen science, and forums in terms of their effectiveness in respect of communicating short-term incidents, long-term awareness, and long-term knowledge in the context of flooding and air pollution risk. We find that there is neither a one-size-fits-all, nor superior, format of communication. No single format is effective in fulfilling all three communication pruposes. All five formats analysed appear 15 to be successful under different circumstances and are never representative of all segments of the population. Communication between experts and the public is difficult and full of tensions, information alone is not enough. Our study shows different ways of incorporating strategies to build trust between experts and the public and make communication more fun and accessible, breaking down hierarchies and creating safe spaces for co-creation where everyone feels empowered to participate and benefits. 20

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“…Finally, addressing delicate issues in terms of urban planning can lead to emotional reactions which can influence the transcriber's report. (Harvey, 2009) In our approach we use a 3D platform at the core of the debate. Citizens interact with other citizens and Facilitators within the 3D scene.…”

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Towards an open 3D participatory citizen debate

Chassin

Ingensand

Joerin

2018

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This paper presents a platform aiming the ease of the debate between citizens. In the early 2010’ies, governments are seeking new ways to be more accountable and transparent towards their citizens; marking a renewal in public participation. In return, citizens are eager to be heard and to use new tools based on information and communication technologies (ICT) like the web 2.0. This public’s empowerment presents some costs for the authorities who are mainly concerned with the loss of decision making power. To face those challenges, several 2D online maps have been developed to help the governments to direct and centralize citizens insights. Those previous collaborating mapping tools helped to identify the characteristics of a reliable platform : user-friendly, simple and accessible (anywhere at any time). In our implementation, we adopted the third dimension which provides numerous benefits : 1. a more effective and effortless visualization, 2. An unbiased representation of the environment, 3. The merge of the participant cognition spaces. From our past experiences, we conceptualized the actors (citizens / facilitator / transcriber) interactions and dynamics in public engagement on-site meeting. From this approach, we evaluated how the utilization of a 3D virtual environment as the support of the participation will reshape and enhance the relation synergies between the actors : 1. Centralization of the interactions within the platform, 2. Automated analysis from the gathered raw information, 3. Reachability of a larger part of the population, 4. Lightening of the participatory processes.

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Drama, Talk, and Emotion

Cited by 46 publications

References 34 publications

Science stories as culture: experience, identity, narrative and emotion in public communication of science

Science stories as culture: experience, identity, narrative and emotion in public communication of science

Building bridges between experts and the public: a comparison of two-way communication formats for flooding and air pollution risk

Towards an open 3D participatory citizen debate

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