TY - JOUR
T1 - Editorial Overview
T2 - Public Science and Technology Scholars: Engaging Whom?
AU - Fisher, Erik
N1 - Funding Information:
Coordinated, multi-site engagement programs have also been conducted at the project level. These include Deepening Ethical Engagement and Participation in Emerging Nanotechnologies (DEEPEN), funded by the European Commission; Socio-Technical Integration Research (STIR), funded by the National Science Foundation; Synthetic Aesthetics, jointly funded by the National Science Foundation and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council; and Technolife, funded by the European Commission, to name a few. Additionally, numerous events, festivals, installations, and discussion forums have sought to facilitate deliberative or interactive engagements with public citizens as such around new and emerging science and technologies. Several of these have been designed and implemented directly and independently by centers such as those noted above; others have been developed by municipal and regional governments, often facilitated by STS scholars or by consultants familiar with STS; still others are the work of informal science education networks and museums.
PY - 2011/12
Y1 - 2011/12
N2 - Science policy mandates across the industrialized world insinuate more active roles for publics, their earlier participation in policy decisions, and expanded notions of science and technology governance. In response to these policies, engaged scholars in science studies have sought to design and conduct exercises aimed at better attuning science to its public contexts. As demand increases for innovative and potentially democratic forms of public engagement with science and technology, so also do the prospects for insights from science studies to contribute to policy agendas and institutional capabilities. This collection brings together an international set of scholars in science, technology and society who inquire into the meaning, efficacy and responsibility of engaged science studies scholarship as a public matter.
AB - Science policy mandates across the industrialized world insinuate more active roles for publics, their earlier participation in policy decisions, and expanded notions of science and technology governance. In response to these policies, engaged scholars in science studies have sought to design and conduct exercises aimed at better attuning science to its public contexts. As demand increases for innovative and potentially democratic forms of public engagement with science and technology, so also do the prospects for insights from science studies to contribute to policy agendas and institutional capabilities. This collection brings together an international set of scholars in science, technology and society who inquire into the meaning, efficacy and responsibility of engaged science studies scholarship as a public matter.
KW - Engaged scholarship
KW - Integration
KW - Public engagement
KW - Responsible innovation
KW - Science and technology policy
KW - Science and technology studies
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U2 - 10.1007/s11948-011-9331-x
DO - 10.1007/s11948-011-9331-x
M3 - Editorial
C2 - 22113233
AN - SCOPUS:83855162203
VL - 17
SP - 607
EP - 620
JO - Science and Engineering Ethics
JF - Science and Engineering Ethics
SN - 1353-3452
IS - 4
ER -
