Constructing the public in public perceptions research: A case study of forest genomics
Valerie Berseth,
Jennifer Taylor,
Jenna Hutchen
et al.
Abstract:Contemporary scientific and technological endeavours face public and political pressure to adopt open, transparent and democratically accountable practices of public engagement. Prior research has identified different ways that experts ‘imagine publics’ – as uninformed, as disengaged, as a risk to science, and as co-producers of knowledge – but there has yet to be a systematic exploration of how these views emerge, interact and evolve. This article introduces a typology of imagined publics to analyse how publi… Show more
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