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The inconvenient truth in boundary negotiations and public participation in the production of scientific and technological knowledge
Master of Science (M.S.), Drexel University
May 2012
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17918/etd-3873
Abstract
Boundary negotiations involving the appropriate space for public involvement in the production of scientific and technological knowledge can serve as a contentious area in the Science, Technology, and Society/Sociology of Knowledge discourse. Using H. M. Collins and Robert Evans' expertise-favoring "Third Wave" model, this media discourse analysis examined whether the top-down conveyance of information on global warming provided by journalists and other "translational experts" is able to provide an appropriate space for the views of diverse stakeholders to be incorporated in democratic deliberations of technological as well as public policy actions to reduce global carbon emissions. The results of this analysis indicate that hidden power flows as well as adherence to specific socio-political worldviews in the editorials and op-ed opinion pieces of three leading U.S. newspapers may provide significant obstacles in the efforts of developing world advocates to carve out a space for themselves in the public deliberations of powerful Western nations such as the United States within the framework of a top-down relationship between the public and scientific/technological experts.
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- Title
- The inconvenient truth in boundary negotiations and public participation in the production of scientific and technological knowledge
- Creators
- Antonis James Asprakis - DU
- Contributors
- Amy Elisabeth Slaton (Advisor) - Drexel University (1970-)Douglas V. Porpora (Advisor) - Drexel University (1970-)
- Awarding Institution
- Drexel University
- Degree Awarded
- Master of Science (M.S.)
- Publisher
- Drexel University; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- College of Arts and Sciences; Drexel University
- Other Identifier
- 3873; 991014632150404721