The modern promise that science and technology would lead us to an
unlimited development has been tensioned by the new technologies of
information, the ICTs. The changes in the relationship between experts and
citizens show that tension and the socio-scientific controversies in the field
of scientific-technological research are now the study objects in
scientific-technological, health, and environmental research.
It has been more than fifteen years since the World Summit on the
Information Society in Geneva in 2003, where the representatives of the member
States of United Nations announced the foundation of a society based on the
exchange of knowledge, in which the multiplication of the information networks,
digital literacy and the promised end of the digital divide would be the
definitive factors to defeat poverty and ignorance.
The unlucky prophecy predicted something else than broken promises. The
ambivalence of the so-called information and knowledge society is clearly shown
in the fact that, on the one side, the global horizons grow, communications
speed up and more sophisticated technical devices are produced, but on the
other, citizens have more tools to question them. We encounter citizens that
criticize, resist and actively look for new forms of participation or
generation of knowledge when they face the scientific and technological
developments that affect them.
In a hyper-informed world, in which the once legitimate production of
knowledge and the institutional figure of the expert is continuously
questioned, (re)generating new and legitimate voices that dispute the formerly
exclusive fields of knowledge, it becomes central to ask not only about the
access to information, but also about its uses for decision-making and in the
different forms of citizen participation.
The Public Communication of Science and Technology in controversies
about scientific-technical developments in health or the environment is a
privileged space to observe these disputed fields. The appearance of actors
whose legitimacy does not come from the conventional validation mechanisms and
the voices of different rationalities in the diverse communicational spaces
come together in public debates where it is not only pertinent to question
legitimacy, but also the positioning, the links and participation of citizens.
In this call for papers, the Anuario Electrónico de Estudios en Comunicación Social “Disertaciones” looks for original papers dealing with
socio-scientific/socio-technological controversies in the fields of health and
environment. This refers (not exclusively) to:
- Socio-scientific controversies
- Public Communication of Science and Technology models
- Sustainable development
- Social communication health campaigns
- Circulation and appropriation of knowledge: non-professional expert citizens
- Environmental debates and sacrifice zones
- Big development project in protected territories
- The voices of experts
- Communication and citizen participation
The studies about socio-scientific and socio-technological
controversies, especially in health and environment, have been great mines for
knowledge production, particularly from the perspective of the Social Studies
of Science and Technology (STS). However, this line of work has only partially
penetrated in the field of communication studies, especially in the
Latin-American context. The Public Communication of Science and Technology
models (deficit, dialogue and participative) have drawn a line in which there
is an undoubted need of further digging, especially with empiric research. This
volume of the Disertaciones academic journal seeks to help researchers from
different disciplines, but with a particular focus in the field of
communication, to keep contributing in this direction.
Deadline: September 15, 2020.
Coordinated by Verónica Rocamora (veronica.rocamora@usach.cl) y Claudio
Broitman (claudio.broitman@usach.cl), of the Santiago de Chile University.
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