TY - JOUR
T1 - Mundane science use in a practice theoretical perspective
T2 - Different understandings of the relations between citizen-consumers and public communication initiatives build on scientific claims
AU - Halkier, Bente
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - Public communication initiatives play a part in placing complicated scientific claims in citizen-consumers’ everyday contexts. Lay reactions to scientific claims framed in public communication, and attempts to engage citizens, have been important subjects of discussion in the literatures of public understanding and public engagement with science. Many of the public communication initiatives, however, address lay people as consumers rather than citizens. This creates specific challenges for understanding public engagement with science and scientific citizenship. The article compares five different understandings of the relations between citizen-consumers and public issue communication involving science, where the first four types are widely represented in the Public Understanding of Science discussions. The fifth understanding is a practice theoretical perspective. The article suggests how the public understanding of and engagement in science literature can benefit from including a practice theoretical approach to research about mundane science use and publicengagement.
AB - Public communication initiatives play a part in placing complicated scientific claims in citizen-consumers’ everyday contexts. Lay reactions to scientific claims framed in public communication, and attempts to engage citizens, have been important subjects of discussion in the literatures of public understanding and public engagement with science. Many of the public communication initiatives, however, address lay people as consumers rather than citizens. This creates specific challenges for understanding public engagement with science and scientific citizenship. The article compares five different understandings of the relations between citizen-consumers and public issue communication involving science, where the first four types are widely represented in the Public Understanding of Science discussions. The fifth understanding is a practice theoretical perspective. The article suggests how the public understanding of and engagement in science literature can benefit from including a practice theoretical approach to research about mundane science use and publicengagement.
U2 - 10.1177/0963662515596314
DO - 10.1177/0963662515596314
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 26276759
SN - 0963-6625
VL - 26
SP - 40
EP - 54
JO - Public Understanding of Science
JF - Public Understanding of Science
IS - 40-54
ER -