Journal•ISSN: 1075-5470
Science Communication
SAGE Publishing
About: Science Communication is an academic journal published by SAGE Publishing. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Science communication & Public engagement. It has an ISSN identifier of 1075-5470. Over the lifetime, 1114 publications have been published receiving 41343 citations.
Topics: Science communication, Public engagement, Science education, Framing (social sciences), Newspaper
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TL;DR: This paper explored the role of visual and iconic representations of climate change for public engagement and found that although such representations have much potential for attracting people's attention to climate change, fear is generally an ineffective tool for motivating genuine personal engagement.
Abstract: Fear-inducing representations of climate change are widely employed in the public domain. However, there is a lack of clarity in the literature about the impacts that fearful messages in climate change communications have on people's senses of engagement with the issue and associated implications for public engagement strategies. Some literature suggests that using fearful representations of climate change may be counterproductive. The authors explore this assertion in the context of two empirical studies that investigated the role of visual, and iconic, representations of climate change for public engagement respectively. Results demonstrate that although such representations have much potential for attracting people's attention to climate change, fear is generally an ineffective tool for motivating genuine personal engagement. Nonthreatening imagery and icons that link to individuals' everyday emotions and concerns in the context of this macro-environmental issue tend to be the most engaging. Recommenda...
838 citations
TL;DR: The study concluded that the consensus development conference is an effective technology transfer procedure both in the United States and in Sweden.
Abstract: A pair of consensus development conferences held in the United States and in Sweden presented an unusual opportunity for a cross-cultural study of technology transfer The two conferences were based...
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TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual framework focusing on the belief systems of advocacy coalitions within policy subsystems is proposed to understand the role of policy analysis in policy-oriented learning and the effect of such learning on changes in governmental programs.
Abstract: There has been a great deal of research in recent years concerning the use of substantive policy analysis in public policymaking. This article seeks to integrate those findings—e.g., the “enlightenment function” of policy research—into a more general model of policymaking over periods of a decade or more. The conceptual framework focuses on the belief systems of advocacy coalitions within policy subsystems as the critical vehicle for understanding the role of policy analysis in policy-oriented learning and the effect, in turn, of such learning on changes in governmental programs.
650 citations
TL;DR: Knowledge Utilization in Decision-Making as discussed by the authors has a mangled terminology to make a point that knowledge, at least the subcategory of knowledge that derives from systematic research and analysis, is not often used in direct and instrumental fashion in the formulation of policy.
Abstract: The conventional title for this article would be &dquo;Knowledge Utilization in Decision-Making.&dquo; I have chosen the mangled terminology to make a point-in fact, two points. The first is that knowledge, at least the subcategory of knowledge that derives from systematic research and analysis, is not often &dquo;utilized&dquo; in direct and instrumental fashion in the formulation of policy. Only occasionally does it supply an &dquo;answer&dquo; that
610 citations