From R.M.Holliman at open.ac.uk Fri Dec 4 11:49:08 2009 From: R.M.Holliman at open.ac.uk (R.M.Holliman) Date: Sat Dec 5 13:01:23 2009 Subject: [PCST] Studying science communication in the information age Message-ID: <4E7B5FE52E3BEA48AD9AB3AD11BA17A30DBC1F9067@KIELDERCMS1.open.ac.uk> Registration for the Open University?s (UK) postgraduate course SH804 Communicating science in the information age has been extended to 11 January 2010. Further information about the course is available at: http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/course/sh804.htm Alternatively, you can download a leaflet about the course from the following entry on the ISOTOPE website: http://isotope.open.ac.uk/SH804 The Open University now has a Student Budget Account (http://www.open.ac.uk/ousba). This is a convenient way to pay your course fees. You can register for a course many months before its start date. The Open University will require payment in full, but if you charge your fees to OUSBA you can ?Register Now ? Pay Later?. Best wishes Rick Dr. Richard Holliman Senior Lecturer in Science Communication Science Faculty The Open University Walton Hall Milton Keynes MK7 6AA Tel +44 (0)1908 654646 For more information about my teaching, research and science outreach and public engagement interests, see http://www.open.ac.uk/personalpages/r.m.holliman For the ISOTOPE website, select http://isotope.open.ac.uk The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). From suzanne.de-cheveigne at univmed.fr Tue Dec 8 13:43:54 2009 From: suzanne.de-cheveigne at univmed.fr (Suzanne de =?iso-8859-1?Q?Cheveign=E9?=) Date: Wed Dec 9 22:26:59 2009 Subject: [PCST] positions at CNRS Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, CNRS (the main French nation research organisation) has a call open for about 400 tenured positions, both junior and senior, among others in Communication Sciences : http://www.sg.cnrs.fr/drhchercheurs/concoursch/default-en.htm. On average CNRS recruits about 25% non-French researchers. If you are interested in putting in a candidature the area of Science/Environmental Communications or Science and Society, please don't hesitate to contact me very quickly - the date limit is early in January. Best regards, Suzanne de Cheveign? PS : If you wish to candidate in other fields, it is very important to first get in touch with a CNRS laboratory that can support your candidature. -- Suzanne de Cheveign?, DR CNRS, Shadyc - Sociologie, histoire, anthropologie des dynamiques culturelles (EHESS - CNRS - UMR8562) Centre de la Vieille Charit? 2 rue de la Charit? 13236 Marseille Cedex 02 France suzanne.de-cheveigne@univmed.fr http://shadyc.ehess.fr/document.php?id=67 http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/aut/cheveigne/ From carvalho at ics.uminho.pt Sun Dec 20 23:21:28 2009 From: carvalho at ics.uminho.pt (Anabela Carvalho) Date: Thu Dec 24 01:04:10 2009 Subject: [PCST] CFP - SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT COMMUNICATION SECTION, ECREA CONFERENCE 2010 In-Reply-To: <82E929E1594A9946A37361A1402A5D1406856FF3@EXCHANGE1.university.brighton.ac.uk> Message-ID: ECREA - European Communication Research and Education Association SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT COMMUNICATION SECTION - CALL FOR PAPERS ECREA's 3rd EUROPEAN COMMUNICATION CONFERENCE Conference Theme: 'Transcultural Communication -- Intercultural Comparisons'. Hamburg, Germany, 12-15 October 2010 www.ecrea2010hamburg.eu ECREA?s Science and Environment Communication Section welcomes the submission of proposals for papers, posters and panels for ECREA?s 3rd European Communication Conference to take place in Hamburg, Germany from 12 to 15 October 2010. The 21st century faces unprecedented challenges in the environment and science fields. The Science and Environment Communication section seeks to foster a strong network of research in the wide area of science and environment communication. Science is understood here in broad terms as research that has its roots in the social sciences, humanities or natural sciences, including technology. Environment is also understood broadly as both the natural and the built milieu. Example of topic areas that can be addressed include ? but are far from restricted to ? the following: ? Media representations of science and the environment ? Political and commercial discourse on the environment ? Communication, democracy and scientific/environmental governance ? Public engagement with science and the environment ? The dialogic, interactive communication of research-based knowledge ? The discourse and politics of environmental activism The section welcomes work that crosses a range of disciplinary (communication/media/cultural studies, science and technology studies, sociology, social psychology) and methodological (quantitative/qualitative/empirical/theoretical) boundaries. For activities of the section, please visit http://www.scienv-com.eu/ Anabela Carvalho (Chair) Julie Doyle (Vice-Chair) Louise Phillips (Vice-chair) PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 28 February 2010 Guidelines for submission ECREA is pleased to accept proposals for individual papers, panels as well as poster presentations. All proposals must be submitted to (and will be reviewed) by one of the 17 ECREA thematic sections through the conference website. www.ecrea2010hamburg.eu Abstracts should be written in English and should contain a clear outline of the argument, the theoretical framework, and where applicable methodology and results. The preferred length of the individual abstracts is between 400 and 500 words (the maximum is 500 words, i. e. 3,500 characters). Panel proposals ?which should consist of five individual contributions ? combine a panel abstract with five individual abstracts, each of which are between 400 and 500 words (i. e. max. 3,500 characters). Participants may submit more than one proposal, but only one paper or poster by the same first author will be accepted and programmed. First authors can still be second (or third, etc.) author of other papers or posters, and can still act as chair or respondent of a panel. Deadline All proposals should be submitted through the website no later than 28 February 2010. Please note that this submission deadline will not be extended! Proposals should be submitted through the conference website. Online submission system opens 1 December 2009. To avoid technical problems, early submission is strongly encouraged. Timeline 1 December 2009: Online submission system open 28 February 2010: Deadline for online submission End of April 2010: Notification of acceptance 15 September 2010: Deadline for submission of full papers (for online publication) Feel free to circulate this call to colleagues or any other research networks that may be interested in submitting a proposal. From massimo.malvetti at uni.lu Sat Dec 26 19:05:11 2009 From: massimo.malvetti at uni.lu (MALVETTI Massimo) Date: Sun Dec 27 11:37:18 2009 Subject: [PCST] JHC - a conference on scientific, technical and industrial culture Message-ID: <38B6DB9B34253F4181DD89BC50B171C33D60E40678@BASHIR.uni.lux> JHC - JOURNEES HUBERT CURIEN ON SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL AND INDUSTRIAL CULTURE ? Invitation to participate to JHC2010 in Esch-Belval (Luxembourg) Accompanying the development of a National centre for industrial culture on the grounds of a former steel mill in Belval (twenty km southwest of the city of Luxembourg), the universities of Li?ge, Luxembourg, Metz, Nancy and Saarbr?cken with the collaborations of the Fondation Bassin Minier and the Fonds Belval, organise the "3es Journ?es Hubert Curien de la culture scientifique, technique et industrielle" (JHC2010) on "What is the role of scientific, technological and industrial culture in times of economical and ecological ruptures". The symposium will take place from Wednesday 10 to Friday 12 February 2010 at the Terres Rouges Building of the RBC Dexia Bank in Esch-sur-Alzette (Luxembourg). Please note that working languages are French and German, a translation service between these two languages is provided. The complete programme is available at http://www.jhc2010.eu . Posters on the symposium's subjects (maximum size A0) are welcome at the conference venue. The symposium is structured in three parts: Mutations (Wednesday), Innovation (Thursday), and Mediation (Friday). The second day will provide the opportunity to discover the site of Belval where currently a university campus, a university library, a railway station, the national archives, several research centres, the National centre for industrial culture, a spin-off park, ... are planned and start to be built around two conserved blast furnaces towering at nearly 90 mt. In the afternoon of Friday 12 February a meeting of the preparation team for the next JHC meets right after the conference: ? Invitation to join the preparation group of JHC2012 in Nancy JHC2012 are planned as a European conference on scientific, technical and industrial culture. It will address actors and stakeholders of scientific culture from European universities to discuss research in this field, to review teaching programmes related to scientific culture and communication, to compare how actions directed towards the general public are credited to the researchers, to query the role of university museums, etc... The organization committee would like to extend beyond the regional partners involved in present JHC and invites interested individuals and institutions to participate in the preliminary meeting on 12 February 2010 at the very end of the JHC2010 announced above. For more information, contact Nicolas Beck, Nancy-Universit? (F) : nicolas.beck@nancy-universite.fr From J.Allgaier at web.de Sun Dec 27 17:19:12 2009 From: J.Allgaier at web.de (Joachim Allgaier) Date: Mon Dec 28 12:29:51 2009 Subject: [PCST] CfP Conference: Risky entanglements? Contemporary research cultures imagined and practised Message-ID: <1429513656@web.de> International Conference 2010 Risky entanglements? Contemporary research cultures imagined and practised When: 9-11 June 2010 Where: Albert Schweitzer Haus, Vienna Key Speakers: Philip Campbell (Editor-in-Chief, Nature) Ulrike Felt (University of Vienna) Lisa Garforth (Newcastle University) Pierre-Beno?t Joly (INRA, Paris) Mike Michael (Goldsmiths, University of London) Helga Nowotny (European Research Council) Steven Shapin (Harvard University) Ruth Wodak (Lancaster University) Organisers: Department of Social Studies of Science, University of Vienna Abstract Submission Deadline: 29 January 2010 (maximum length 500 words) Recent key macro studies agree that scientific research is increasingly entangled in various societal rationales. On the one hand, these analyses should be understood within the context of the growing importance attributed to scientific and technological innovation for shaping contemporary societies. On the other hand, society's readiness to contribute to an innovation-friendly climate is considered a key-asset for materializing this imagined progress. For both issues, the human side of science, thus researchers and their way of doing research, their values and their readiness to engage with both science and society, is perceived as essential. As this unfolds on a global scale, it is interesting to observe within research policy and science institutions the convergence of various discourses that stress and imagine what seem to be the key values or myths guiding research today: excellence, accountability, mobility, flexibility, ethical conduct, societal relevance or application orientation, to mention but a few. However, far too little analytic attention has been devoted to (1) how these broad and ostensibly universal notions impinge on different work and knowledge production cultures, (2) how specific local histories and contingencies play out in practice, (3) how these global changes get refracted locally and personally, and (4) how all this re-frames what being a researcher today actually means. This lack seems astonishing given the importance the 'human factor' is attributed in current policy discourses around innovation. This conference invites contributions that address change and continuity of work and knowledge production cultures in research, and ask in which processes ethical, societal and economic rationales shape these very cultures. Of particular interest are contributions that are combining more refined empirical analyses with broader theoretical frameworks of change. By combining works that address different regional-historical contexts and different scientific fields, the conference's explicit goal is to open up comparative perspectives, thus contributing to a broader understanding of contemporary research cultures. Conference Themes Research Cultures and Regimes of Innovation How do academic and economic/corporate logics intersect and interact in today's research environment? Which new hybrid institutions between "academia" and "industry" arise and how is knowledge production structured in these contexts? Which roles do patents and the ownership of knowledge play in this? What are the contemporary specificities of spaces and places where knowledge is actually produced and communicated? The Social and Temporal Organisation of Research How has the social and temporal organisation of research changed? Which new roles and responsibilities for researchers come along with these changes? Which broader institutional changes frame these new forms of temporal and social organisation? How does this impinge on research practice? Ethics in (Research) Practice How do ethical considerations figure in actual research processes? Where are spaces and places where ethics is pondered and debated? How do institutional "ethical" processes (e.g. in journals or committees) impinge on research culture and practice? What are the intentions and the effects of formulating and codifying what good scientific practices are? What are the tensions arising between a global vision of science and local ethical understandings? Biographies and Careers in Science How do scientists envision and plan their careers and how do institutions shape this process? How "transgressive" are careers to other fields of employment? In how far have scientific biographies changed over the past decades, and how does this impinge on actual research practice? Which role do social, ethical and economic considerations play in these processes? Rituals of Assessing Academic Work How do new notions of quality and the rituals of ascribing and monitoring it reshape academic biographies and actual research practice? Which new forms of stratification are introduced in particular through audit and ranking practives? Does academic audit contribute to transparency and social robustness, or does it produce closure towards society? Socialising Future Researchers for a New Kind of Science? How are the professional norms and values of one generation of scientists transferred to the next? How are changes in culture and practice of the sciences reflected in the socialisation of young scientists? What role do ethical as well as socio-economic considerations play in these socialisation processes? Are there any ruptures in this process? Economies of Promise: Imagined Futures as a Resource of Science What role does the ever-increasing importance of promised future societal benefit play in scientific practice? How do these envisioned socio-scientific futures change how scientists approach problems and structure their research? Which institutional constellations are relevant in this economy of promises? Do particular funding policies have an impact on economies of promise and imagined futures? Public Debates and Research Cultures How do broader societal debates influence research practice? How does the increasing media coverage of science and scientists impinge on their self-understanding and their actual work? What images of scientific work and research practice arise from media representations of research in science and the humanities? Does public engagement influence research cultures, and in which processes? A limited number of bursaries for the financial support of junior scholars is available. For further details about the submission of abstracts, registration fees etc. see: http://sciencestudies.univie.ac.at/events/conference2010/ Contact Joachim Allgaier or Ulrike Felt E-mail: conference.sciencestudies (at) univie.ac.at Tel: +43 1 4277-49610 or -49601 Fax: +43 1 4277-9496 ______________________________________________________ GRATIS f?r alle WEB.DE-Nutzer: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://movieflat.web.de From nisbetmc at gmail.com Tue Dec 29 17:08:06 2009 From: nisbetmc at gmail.com (Matthew C. Nisbet) Date: Thu Dec 31 06:44:15 2009 Subject: [PCST] Panel Video: Re-Starting the Conversation on Climate Change Message-ID: Dear PCST list readers, The following panel held this month at the annual meetings of the American Geophysical Union is likely to be of interest. Slides and synchronized video of the presentations have been archived by AGU. At the blog post link below, I summarize the presentations. The post includes links to the video and key minute marks. http://scienceblogs.com/framing-science/2009/12/video_and_slides_from_agu_pane.php Re-Starting the Conversation on Climate Change: The Media, Dialogue, and Public Engagement Workshop *Sunday, 13 December (1:00 PM ?5:00 PM) Inter Continental Hotel Grand Ballroom C* Panel organized by Matthew C. Nisbet, American University, and In?s Cifuentes, American Geophysical Union Presenters: Maxwell Boykoff, Matthew C. Nisbet, and Gwendolyn Blue Increasing public understanding and action on climate change requires the application of research and expertise from the social sciences. This workshop features presentations from three leading researchers who are examining the factors that shape media coverage, public participation, and public dialogue. Discussion will emphasize lessons learned from the first two decades of climate change communication initiatives and the promise of several new directions. Mass Media and the Cultural Politics of Climate Change Max Boykoff, Ph.D. University of Colorado-Boulder Mass media serve vital roles in the communication processes between science, policy-makers and the public. This presentation reviews contextual factors as well as journalistic pressures and norms that contribute to how issues, events and information become climate 'news'. A particular focus will be on how these factors have contributed to misperceptions, misleading debates, and divergent understandings that undermine efforts at policy action. How Framing Matters to Wider Public Participation on Climate Change Matthew C. Nisbet, Ph.D. American University, Washington, DC This presentation discusses research analyzing the extent to which new frames of reference and narratives can generate wider public interest and participation on climate change. The results of qualitative interviews and surveys are reviewed, focusing on public reactions to various policy proposals and messages. The research is designed to provide scientists, policy experts, government agencies, journalists, and other stakeholders with practical guidance on how best to increase public understanding of the implications of climate change. Worldwide Views on Climate change: An International Citizen Deliberation on Climate Policy Gwendolyn Blue, Ph.D. University of Calgary, Canada The UN Framework Program on Climate Change is holding its next round of discussions to update the Kyoto Protocol in Copenhagen in December, 2009. These climate change policy discusions have always involved government representatives and organized groups such as industry alliances and non-government organizations. For the first time, an international effort to hear what citizens around the world have to say on the policy questions was organized by the Danish Board of Technology, involving the participation of 38 countries, each with 100 citizen participants. This presentation describes both the process of mounting such an effort and the outcomes from the participating countries, with particular attention to differences between developed and developing countries. The challenges for global governance will also be discussed. Biographies of Presenters *Maxwell T. Boykoff, Ph.D.* is Assistant Professor in the Center for Science and Technology Policy, which is part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado-Boulder. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California-Santa Cruz. Max's research interests involve: 1) analyses of the transformations of carbon-based economies and societies, and 2) examinations in cultural politics and the environment. Recent publications include peer-reviewed articles in Geoforum, Global Environmental Change, Transactions of the Institute of British Geography, Political Geography, Environmental Research Letters, and Climatic Change. He has also written commentaries for Nature Reports Climate Change and Nieman Reports as well as co-authored a background paper for the 2007 United Nations Development Programme Human Development Reports. Max recently published 'The Politics of Climate Change' for Routledge/Europa (November 2009) and is working on 'Who Speaks for Climate? Making Sense of Mass Media Reporting on Climate Change' for Cambridge University Press (2010). *Matthew C. Nisbet, Ph.D.* is Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at American University, Washington, DC. As a social scientist, he studies strategic communication in policy-making and public affairs, focusing on controversies surrounding science, the environment, and public health. He is the author of more than two dozen journal articles and book chapters and serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Press/Politics and Science Communication. Nisbet's current research with Edward Maibach on climate change communication is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation where he is a Health Policy Investigator. He has also worked as a consultant to the National Academies, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Centers for Disease Control, the National Science Foundation and other leading organizations. Nisbet is a frequently invited speaker at universities and meetings across North America and Europe. *Gwendolyn Blue, Ph.D.* is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary, Canada. Her research interests focus on public engagement with and governance of environment and public health issues, particularly as these unfold in unconventional political realms such as lifestyle politics and emergent dialogue-based democratic initiatives. She is currently the lead researcher on a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council funded project on Environmental Citizenship, Global Public Participation and Climate Change. She was part of the project team for World Wide Views on Global Warming, the first global citizen deliberation on climate change. -- Matthew C. Nisbet, Ph.D. assistant professor | school of communication | american university 4400 massachusetts avenue, nw | d.c. 20016 | cell/text: 614.353.4951 | office: 202.885.2104 | fax: 202.885.2019 web: http://www.american.edu/soc/faculty/nisbet.cfm