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The appropriate scales for science, management, and decision making cannot be unambiguously derived from physical characteristics of water resources. Scales are a joint product of social and biophysical processes. The politics-of-scale metaphor has been helpful in drawing attention to the ways in which scale choices are constrained overtly by politics, and more subtly by choices of technologies, institutional designs, and measurements. In doing so, however, the scale metaphor has been stretched to cover a lot of different spatial relationships. In this paper, we argue that there are benefits to understanding—and actions to distinguish—issues of scale from those of place and position. We illustrate our arguments with examples from the governance of water resources in the Mekong region, where key scientific information is often limited to a few sources. Acknowledging how actors' interests fit along various spatial, temporal, jurisdictional, and other social scales helps make the case for innovative and more inclusive means for bringing multi-level interests to a common forum. Deliberation can provide a check on the extent of shared understanding and key uncertainties.

Explains the processes of privatization & liberalization in the telecommunications industry in both pre- & postunification Germany, a nation that is both representative & unique because of the difficult constitutional changes required to advance the process. Using traditional methods of political economy, an attempt is made to show how global economic & technological changes led to a dramatic shift in the public philosophy governing the choices that could be made in public telecommunications policy. 76 References. Adapted from the source document.

In this case study, interviews with leaders of China Times and Central Daily, plus other mass media scholars and professionals, provide evidence that a free press in Taiwan evolved after a nearly four-decade old martial law was lifted in 1987. The interviews were based on the description of press philosophies by William A. Hachten (1981) to determine whether Taiwan's press has changed from developmental to Western. Secondly, based on early work of Schramm (1964) and Lerner (1958), economic prosperity and political pluralism were studied as keys to the government's relaxation of restrictions on the Taiwanese press. The finding of interviews in Taiwan support this point of view.

Applying science and technology to public purposes / Richard A. Rettig -- The institutional climate for innovation in industry / William J. Abernathy and Richard S. Rosenbloom -- Decision making with modern information and communications technology / Donald J. Hillman -- Relations of science, government, and industry / Charles Weiner -- Choosing our pleasures and our poisons / William W. Lowrance -- Science, technology, and international security / Eugene B. Skolnikoff -- U.S. policy towards scientific and technological development in the developing countries / Charles Weiss, Jr. -- U.S. agriculture in the context of the world food situation / Sylvan H. Wittwer -- Trends and prospects in world population / Michael Teitelbaum -- International security implications of materials and energy resource depletion / William A. Vogely -- Science and national defense / Kenneth E. Boulding

1 Dialectic as Organization: A Dialectal Approach to Strategic Planning -- 2 Dialectic As Information Theory: A Communication Model of Dialectical Inquiring Systems -- 3 Dialectic As Environment: A Brunswik Lens Model of Dialectical Inquiring Systems -- 4 Dialectic As Experiment -- 5 Dialectic As Process: A Methodology for Strategic Problem Solving -- 6 Dialectic As Argument: On the Structure of Dialectical Reasoning in the Social and Policy Sciences -- 7 Dialectic As Peer Review: The Case of The United States of America National Science Foundation -- 8 Dialectic as Normative Structure: Norms and Counter-Norms in a Select Group of the Apollo Moon Scientists -- 9 Dialectic As A General Method of Social Science: Varieties of Social Science Experience.

This research aims at describing the factors influence the policy communication at Postgraduate Program Academic Service of Public Service unit of Politic and Social Science Faculty of Riau University. The method of this research is qualitative with purposive sampling technique used. The sample of the research is the persons who know and involved in the academic service of Politic and Social Science Faculty of Riau University. The data were collected by documentation, interview, and observation. The data were analysed by using descriptive qualitative technique which focus on the particular object intensively. The finding of the research shows that policy communication implementation in Academic Service Unit was poor. It caused by the unbalance ratio of lecturer and students, lack of facilities maintenance, and there is no Standard Operational Procedure (SOP) in administration implementation, and the lack of monitoring and evaluation quality applied by the Faculty management. The factors influenced this policy communication were facilities and infrastructures, qualified human resources availability, Standard Operational Procedure (SOP) availability, students' capacity management, students' study road map service availability, course service and course monitoring implementation availability

In contemporary media discourses, researchers may be perceived to communicate something they do not intend to, such as coldness or irrelevance. However, researchers are facing new responsibilities concerning how popular formats used to present science will impact science's cultural authority (Bucchi, 2017). Currently, there is limited research on the microlevel practices of digital science communication involving researchers as actors. Therefore, this qualitative study explores how digital academic discourse practices develop, using the tweeting and blogging of researchers involved in a multidisciplinary renewable energy research project as a case. The results of a thematic analysis of interviews with researchers (n = 17) suggests that the researchers' perceptions form a scale ranging from traditional to progressively adjusted practices, which are labelled 'informing,' 'anchoring,' 'luring,' and 'maneuvering.' These imply an attempt to diminish the gap between science and the public. The interviewees acknowledge that scientific facts may not be interesting and that they need captivating means that are common in the use of new media, such as buzzwords and clickbait. It appears that trials and experimentation with hybrid genres helped the researchers to distinguish the contours of digital academic discourses. The implications support suggestions to broaden the trajectories of expertise and communication, including issues of culture and identity, trust, and the relevance of science. It is argued that scientists' embrace of new media channels will refine some articulations of the mediatization processes, and these findings support recent suggestions that mediatization could also be conceptualized as a strategic resource.

Chapter 1 - Introduction -- Chapter 2- Field Research And Data Collection -- Chapter 3 - Building Capacity For Developmental Programmes -- Chapter 4 - Culture, Gender Dynamics And Science Communication -- Chapter 5- Stories From Rural Development Programmes -- Chapter 6 - Synthesis -- Chapter 7 - Conclusion.

Intro -- Half title -- title page -- copyright page -- dedication -- Introduction -- 1 Communication: Sine Qua Non of the Behavioral Sciences -- 2 Zoology -- 3 Anthropology -- 4 General Semantics -- 5 General System Theory -- 6 Neurophysiology -- 7 Symbolic Interaction -- 8 Sociology of Knowledge

This text challenges the quantitative, social science perspective on intercultural communication by examining critical issues from diverse perspectives. Key topics include historical and religious perspectives; racial and ethnic issues; cross-cultural adaptation; and methods of researching 'other' cultures

Communication given at a colloquium organized by the East-Asia Network at Hong Kong Chinese University in November 2011. ; International audience ; an, Fukushima, power, trust, risk, knowledge society, science and technology policies, nuclear energy, utilities companies, democratic control, political institutions