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P014


Making science in public: science communication and public engagement in and for transformation 
Convenors:
Sarah Davies (University of Vienna)
Maja Horst (Aarhus University)
Noriko Hara (Indiana University)
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Format:
Traditional Open Panel
Location:
HG-KC07
Sessions:
Friday 19 July, -, -, -
Time zone: Europe/Amsterdam

Short Abstract:

This open panel invites paper proposals that analyse how science is represented, transformed, contested or negotiated through public communication and engagement practices, in particular by paying attention to how this relates to the politics of social and political transformation.

Long Abstract:

Science communication and public engagement with science are key mechanisms by which scientific knowledge is mediated, negotiated, and transformed. Over the past decades, STS research has outlined the ways in which science and society are constituted through public communication activities and catalysed a shift towards dialogue and engagement in science communication practice. More recently, issues of representation, exclusion, and contestation have risen to the fore in discussions of science in public, as well as concerns about public (dis)trust in expertise, the dizzying impacts of social media, and debates about science’s role in political activism and resistance.

This open panel invites paper proposals that analyse these ways that science is represented, refigured, contested or negotiated in public venues, in particular by paying attention to how this relates to the politics of social and political transformation. Papers may explore, for instance, science and technology-related activism; science in social media; science in museums; deliberative experiments; popular science writing; science blogging; news media; or science comedy – as well as the myriad other sites and mechanisms by which science is done in public. We invite critical analysis of these sites and mechanisms that consider their relationalities and how particular futures are enacted and negogiated within them. For example, papers might analyse the constitution of technoscientific futures within particular science communication activities; discuss affective or temporal regimes of public engagement with science; or give accounts of experimental practice that show how STS might contribute to doing science in public in just, generous, and collaborative ways.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Friday 19 July, 2024, -
Session 2 Friday 19 July, 2024, -
Session 3 Friday 19 July, 2024, -