Citizen Voices: Performing Public Participation in Science and Environment Communication

Louise J. Phillips · Anabela Carvalho · Julie Doyle

Jan 2012 · Intellect Books

About this ebook

"How is "participation" ascribed meaning and practised in science and environment communication? And how are citizen voices articulated, invoked, heard, marginalised or silenced in those processes? Citizen Voices takes its starting point in the so-called dialogic or participatory turn in scientific and environmental governance in which practices claiming to be based on principles of participation, dialogue and citizen involvement have proliferated. The book goes beyond the buzzword of "participation" in order to give empirically rich, theoretically informed and critical accounts of how citizen participation is understood and enacted in mass mediation and public engagement practices. A diverse series of studies across Europe and the US are presented, providing readers with empirical insights into the articulation of citizen voices in different national, cultural and institutional contexts. Building bridges across media and communication studies, science and technology studies, environmental studies and urban planning studies, Citizen Voices also offers a range of different theories and research methodologies which foreground the role of communication processes in scientific and environmental governance."--BLACKWELL'S.

About the author

Louise Phillips is associate professor in the Department of Communication, Business, and Information Technologies at the Roskilde University, Denmark. Anabela Carvalho is associate professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at the University of Minho in Portugal. Julie Doyle is a principal lecturer in media studies in the School of Arts and Media at the University of Brighton, UK.