Citizen Engagement Processes as Information Systems: the Role of Knowledge and the Concept of Translation Quality

Horlick-Jones, Thomas Edward, Rowe, Gene and Walls, John 2007. Citizen Engagement Processes as Information Systems: the Role of Knowledge and the Concept of Translation Quality. Public Understanding of Science 16 (3) , pp. 259-278. 10.1177/0963662506074792

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Abstract

An important direction in recent thinking about public understanding of science and technology is embodied in the international trend within many democratic countries towards the promotion of citizen engagement. These developments entail the participation and deliberative involvement by lay publics in planning, decision-making and policy-making situations. In this paper we argue that citizen engagement exercises can usefully be understood as information systems. This characterization leads us to propose that the effectiveness by which such exercises utilize sources of knowledge—what we term their translation quality—should be adopted as a new criterion for their evaluation. We illustrate the applicability of this proposal by analyzing the GM Nation? public debate, a government-sponsored citizen engagement exercise that took place in Britain in 2002—3.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Publisher:	SAGE
ISSN:	0963-6625
Last Modified:	19 Mar 2016 22:06
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/3240

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