Scientists and the Public
Studies in Discourse and Dialogue
978-3-8364-8774-0
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300
2009-06-09
79.00 €
eng
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This qualitative study draws on and extends two
important concepts of the public understanding of
science literature: scientists’ understandings of
‘the public’, and the currently popular notion of
science-public dialogue. Using data from interviews
with scientists and engineers, the 'understanding of
the public by scientists’ is examined. Constructions
of publics are also an emphasis in a detailed case
study of informal science-public dialogue at the Dana
Centre, London. Here structures of power and
authority are more traditional than the dialogue
movement’s rhetoric would suggest, but there is also
continual resistance to and contestation of these
structures. To conclude, the threads of analysis are
drawn together to provide a theoretical reasoning of,
and model for, informal dialogue processes which are
able to utilise the sociological complexity of
scientists’ talk.
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