[Air-L] CFP: 4S Open Panel on Science communication: Making science in public

[Hara, Noriko]

***Call for Participation for 4S Open Panel on “Science communication: Making science in public”***
https://www.4s2019.org/call-for-submissions/

Society for Social Studies of Science, New Orleans, LA, September 4-7, 2019
Submission Deadline Feb 1, 2019

Public communication of science is a key mechanism by which scientific knowledge is mediated, negotiated, and transformed. Over the past decades, STS research has outlined the ways in which science and society are coproduced through communication activities, catalysed a shift towards dialogue and engagement in science communication practice, and itself been opened up to public audiences through experimental forms of making and doing.

This open stream invites paper proposals that analyse or reflect upon public science communication. We understand this broadly, as “organized, explicit, and intended actions that aim to communicate scientific knowledge, methodology, processes, or practices in settings where non-scientists are a recognized part of the audiences” (Horst et al 2016, 883). Science communication therefore includes, for instance, science in museums, science fairs, events, and festivals, popular science writing, science blogging, sci­art activities, university and lab open days, news media, digital and social media, and science comedy. We invite critical analysis of these activities. For example, papers might offer reflections on the role science communication plays in the democratisation of science, analyses of the constitution of publics and knowledges within particular science communication activities, discussion of the affective regimes of science in public, or accounts of experimental practice. In particular, any analysis that showcases how science communication is innovated, interrupted, and regenerated is welcomed. The panel will thus use the methodologies and concerns of STS to reflect upon the problems, potential and practice of contemporary science communication.

Single paper submissions should be in the form of abstracts of up to 250 words. They should include the paper’s main arguments, methods, and contributions to STS. When you submit your paper, select “Papers for Open Panels,” and then, select “#132 Science Communication: Making Science in Public.”

Organizers:

Noriko Hara, Indiana University
Sarah Davies, University of Copenhagen

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    Noriko Hara, Ph.D.
    Professor & & Director of MIS (Master of Information Science)
    Department of Information & Library Science
    School of Informatics, Computing, & Engineering | Indiana University
    http://norikohara.org<http://norikohara.org/>