Intercultural Communication and Science and Technology Studies (eBook)

Luis Reyes-Galindo, Tiago Ribeiro Duarte (Herausgeber)

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2017 | 1st ed. 2017
XV, 238 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-58365-5 (ISBN)

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This timely and engaging book addresses communicative issues that arise when science and technology travel across socio-cultural boundaries. The authors discuss interactions between different scientific communities; scientists and policy-makers; science and the public; scientists and artists; and other situations where science clashes with other socio-cultural domains. The volume includes theoretical proposals of how to deal with intercultural communication related to science and technology, as well as rich case studies that illustrate the challenges and strategies deployed in these situations. Individual studies explore Europe, Latin America, and Africa, thus including diverse Global North and South contexts.

Luis Reyes-Galindo is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Campinas, Brazil, and Honorary Research Fellow at Cardiff University's School of Social Science, UK. He has held grants from the British Academy and the Mexican Science and Technology Council and is a member of Mexico's National Researcher's Network (SNI).

Tiago Ribeiro Duarte is Lecturer of Sociology at the University of Brasília, Brazil. He is interested in interdisciplinary collaboration and communication, the interface of climate science and policy-making, public participation in science, and in science and technology in Latin America.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements 5
Contents 7
Notes on Contributors 9
List of Figures 12
List of Tables 13
Chapter 1: Introduction: Intercultural Communication and Science and Technology Studies 14
Intercultural Models in STS (1): Trading Zones 18
Intercultural Models in STS (2): Trust 19
Intercultural Models in STS (3): Expertise and Enculturation 20
Intercultural Models in STS (4): Boundary Objects 22
Book Structure 23
Note 28
References 28
Part I: Interdisciplinary Communication 35
Chapter 2: Linking the Subcultures of Physics: Virtual Empiricism and the Bonding Role of Trust 36
The Social Gap Between High-Theory and Experiment 38
You Need a Busload of Faith to Get By 40
Other Conceptual and Technical Barriers to Communication 45
Varieties of Trust 46
Trust and Social Distance 47
A Bundle of Trust: Virtual Empiricism 50
Reassessing Trust in STS Using Virtual Empiricism: Two Cases 52
Notes 57
References 61
Chapter 3: Mutual Linguistic Socialisation in Interdisciplinary Collaboration 65
Introduction 65
Paleoclimatology and Paleo-Modelling 68
Trade at Work: Collaboration Between Paleoclimatologists and Paleo-Modellers 69
Paleo-Modellers and Interactional Expertise in Paleoclimatology 69
Paleoclimatologists and Interactional Expertise in Paleo-Modelling 73
The Mutual Linguistic Socialisation Process: Formal Courses 75
Mutual Linguistic Socialisation: Joint Supervision 77
Mutual Linguistic Socialisation in Scientific Events and in Research Projects 80
Mutual Linguistic Socialisation: Ambassadors 83
Conclusion 84
Notes 84
References 86
Chapter 4: Science and Policies of Deforestation in the Amazon: Reflecting Ethnographically on Multidisciplinary Collaboration 89
Introduction 89
Environmental Science and the Amazon 93
Doing Ethnography of Science-Policy Interfaces 94
Following the Amazalert Project 97
Reducing Society into Models 99
Potential Contributions from Ethnography 103
Making Results Humbler 105
Conclusions 106
Notes 108
References 109
Chapter 5: From “Climate Sceptic” to “Dendro-­Sociologist”: Considering the Role of Trust in the Communication of Science in Action 114
The Challenge of Communicating Science in Action 114
Overcoming Suspicions 118
Performing a Scientific Status 120
Eye-Witnessing Completeness 122
Encouraging Civil Scepticism 124
The Limits of Trust and Communication 126
Notes 128
References 130
Part II: Intercultural Communication Beyond Science’s Boundaries 132
Chapter 6: Epistemic Interactions Within and Outside Scientific Communities: Different or Analogous Processes? 133
Introduction 133
PUS Studies: From the Cognitive Deficit Towards the Cognitive Deference 135
The Cognitive Deficit 135
The Deficits of the Deficit (And of Its Critics) 136
The Cognitive Deference 138
Acquiring Knowledge from Others 140
Epistemic Exchanges Among Scientists 140
The Place of Testimony in the Epistemic Exchange 142
Assessing the Credibility of Epistemic Authorities 144
Concluding Remarks 148
Notes 149
References 150
Chapter 7: ‘The Year of the Gull’: Demonisation of  Wildlife, Pestilence and Science in the British Press 154
Introduction: Science Journalism as an Informal Mediator Between Science and the Public 154
The Seagull in Popular Culture and Literature 156
Seagulls in the British Printed Media: The 2015 ‘Year of the Gull’ 157
Boundary Breaching and Media Reactions Against ‘Transgressions’ 159
From Displaced Wildlife to Dangerous Pest: Equivocations 161
Pestilence as Boundary Breaching 163
Pests as Deviants 165
Two Discursive Forms of Seagull Deviance: The Monster and the Individual to Be Corrected 166
War and Conflict 167
Alternative Media Representations of Seagulls: Beyond the Silly Season 168
Seagulls, Science and the Press 169
Journalism and the Science of Gulls: Conflicting Formative Intentions 172
Conclusions: Epistemic Deference and Science in Journalism 174
Notes 176
References 177
Chapter 8: From Trading Zones to Buffer Zones: Art and Metaphor in the Communication of Psychiatric Genetics to Publics 182
Introduction 182
Communicating Science: Disciplines and Trading Zones 184
The Art of Science The Science of Art
Translating Psychiatric Genetics: From Bench to Brain 190
The Role and Rule of Metaphor in Science, Art and Communication 195
Buffer Zones Between Experts and Publics 198
Discussion 204
Notes 206
References 207
Chapter 9: Communication in International Technical Cooperation: An Anthropological Systems Approach 214
Introduction 214
From Zones and Boundaries to Systems and Scales 215
Self-Reference: Rethinking Users and  Contexts in Technology Transfer 219
The paysan: Scale- and Context-Making in the C-4 Project 221
Concluding Remarks 232
Notes 234
References 235
Index 239

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.8.2017
• Zusatzinfo: XV, 238 p. 10 illus., 4 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Cross-Cultural Communication • Public Engagement with Science • Public Understanding of Science • Science Communication • Science culture • Science Policy • sociology of science and technology • STS
• ISBN-10: 3-319-58365-4 / 3319583654
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-58365-5 / 9783319583655