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Simon Locke - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Public Understanding of Science--A Rhetorical Invention.
Science Technology & Human Values, 2002Co-Authors: Simon LockeAbstract:This article contributes to the development of a rhetorical approach to the Public Understanding of science or science literacy. It is argued that rhetoric promises an alternative approach to defic...
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Sociology and the Public Understanding of science: from rationalization to rhetoric.
The British journal of sociology, 2001Co-Authors: Simon LockeAbstract:This paper contributes to the reappraisal of sociological theories of modernity inspired by the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK). As much as these theories rely on received ideas about the nature of science that SSK has called into doubt, so do they rely on ideas about the Public Understanding of science. Public Understanding of science has been assumed to conform to the monolithic logic and perception of science associated with rationalization, leading to an impoverished view of the cognitive outlook of the modern individual. Rationalization has become the basis for the construction of theoretical critique of science divorced from any clear reference to Public Understanding, with the result that theory has encountered considerable problems in accounting for Public scepticism towards science. However, rather than question rationalization, the more typical strategy has been to propose radical changes in the modernization process, such as postmodernism and the risk society. Against this, an alternative view of Public Understanding is advanced drawn from SSK and rhetorical psychology. The existence of the sociological critique of science, and SSK in particular, suggests that the meaning of science in modernity is not monolithic but multiple, arising out of a central dilemma over the universal form of knowledge-claims and their necessarily particular, human and social grounding. This dilemma plays out not only in intellectual discourses about science, but also in the Public's Understanding of science. This argument is used to call for further sociological research into Public Understanding and to encourage sociologists to recognize the central importance of the topic to a proper Understanding of modernity.
Ann Borda - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Communicating the Public Understanding of science: the Royal Society website
International Journal of Technology Management, 2009Co-Authors: Jonathan P. Bowen, Ann BordaAbstract:The Royal Society is widely considered to be the foremost UK scientific society and a leading scientific institution internationally. Like all modern organisations, it has been developing its website to meet the increasingly sophisticated demands of its users, from the Public to its members. This paper surveys the development of the website from its simple initial offering to the dynamic resource available today, from a Public viewpoint. This progress has been rapid over a decade for a 300-year old institution. The services are considered in the context of the "Public Understanding of science", an important remit of the Society.
Tara C. Kandpal - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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On the Importance of PURE - Public Understanding of Renewable Energy
2013Co-Authors: Lars Broman, Tara C. KandpalAbstract:Public Understanding of science PUS is a central concept among science communicators. Public Understanding of renewable energy PURE is proposed as an important sub-concept of PUS. The aim of our pa ...
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PURE - Public Understanding of Renewable Energy
Proceedings of the World Renewable Energy Congress – Sweden 8–13 May 2011 Linköping Sweden, 2011Co-Authors: Lars Broman, Tara C. KandpalAbstract:Public Understanding of science PUS is a central concept among science communicators. Public Understanding of renewable energy PURE is proposed as an important sub-concept of PUS. The aim of our paper is to interest and invite renewable energy scientists to join a PURE research project. Four separate important questions for a PURE research project can be identified: (A) Is PURE important? (B) Which issues of PURE are the most important ones, according to renewable energy scientists? (C) What Understanding of renewable energy has the general Public today, worldwide? (D) How to achieve PURE?
Jonathan P. Bowen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Communicating the Public Understanding of science: the Royal Society website
International Journal of Technology Management, 2009Co-Authors: Jonathan P. Bowen, Ann BordaAbstract:The Royal Society is widely considered to be the foremost UK scientific society and a leading scientific institution internationally. Like all modern organisations, it has been developing its website to meet the increasingly sophisticated demands of its users, from the Public to its members. This paper surveys the development of the website from its simple initial offering to the dynamic resource available today, from a Public viewpoint. This progress has been rapid over a decade for a 300-year old institution. The services are considered in the context of the "Public Understanding of science", an important remit of the Society.
Christine Thomas - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The effect of Public Understanding on kerbside recycling scheme performance
2001Co-Authors: J.p. Parfitt, Christine ThomasAbstract:Kerbside recycling performance depends on a combination of factors including scheme design, operation, householder participation and the quality of that participation. The level of Public Understanding of what kerbside recycling schemes expect from them can have a significant effect on the quality of participation and on overall scheme performance. This is because even when participation rates are high, scheme performance can be reduced by poor separation efficiency of targeted materials and the putting out of non-targeted materials for collection. This paper examines research conducted in two regional recycling initiatives within the UK which demonstrate the need for measurement of Public Understanding and awareness to be taken into account along side other aspects of scheme performance. Only when attitudinal data are fully integrated with observational measures of participation and scheme yield can scheme improvements and promotional activity be effectively planned.
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Public Understanding and its effect on recycling performance in hampshire and milton keynes
Resources Conservation and Recycling, 2001Co-Authors: Christine ThomasAbstract:Abstract Improving the recycling rate might be the primary aim of ‘recycling targets’, but good diversion from disposal can be achieved in different ways. Public participation is obviously critical to success; however it is not just how many people participate, but how well they do so, that is important. Analysis of Public attitude research gave insight into how effectively recyclers were participating, and examined levels of Public Understanding. These were correlated with design parameters and Publicity and education strategies to try to identify aspects of successful schemes that led to high quality of participation.
