Who's Driving Innovation?: New Technologies and the Collaborative State
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In: Castree, Hulme and Proctor (Eds) (2018) Companion to Environmental Studies, Routledge
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In: Chapter in Von Schomberg (ed.) Handbook of responsible research and innovation, Edward Elgar
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In: Palgrave Communications, Band 2
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International audience ; UK scientific advice on the possible health risks of mobile phones has embraced (or seems to be embracing) broader engagement with interested non-experts. This paper explains the context of lost credibility that made such a development necessary, and the implications of greater engagement for the construction (and expert control) of "public concern." I narrate how scientific advice matured from an approach based on compliance with guidelines to a style of "public science" in which issues such as trust and democracy were intertwined with scientific risk assessment. This paper develops existing conceptions of the "public understanding of science" with an explanation based around the co-production of scientific and social order. Using a narrative drawn from a series of in-depth interviews with scientists and policymakers, I explain how expert reformulation of the state of scientific uncertainty within a public controversy reveals constructions of "The Public," and the desired extent of their engagement. Constructions of the public changed at the same time as a construction of uncertainty as solely an expert concern was molded into a state of politically workable public uncertainty. This paper demonstrates how publics can be constructed as instruments of credible policymaking, and suggests the potential for public alienation if non-experts feel they have not been fairly represented.
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In: Public Understanding of Science, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 45-61
UK scientific advice on the possible health risks of mobile phones has embraced (or seems to be embracing) broader engagement with interested non-experts. This paper explains the context of lost credibility that made such a development necessary, and the implications of greater engagement for the construction (and expert control) of "public concern." I narrate how scientific advice matured from an approach based on compliance with guidelines to a style of "public science" in which issues such as trust and democracy were intertwined with scientific risk assessment. This paper develops existing conceptions of the "public understanding of science" with an explanation based around the co-production of scientific and social order. Using a narrative drawn from a series of in-depth interviews with scientists and policymakers, I explain how expert reformulation of the state of scientific uncertainty within a public controversy reveals constructions of "The Public," and the desired extent of their engagement. Constructions of the public changed at the same time as a construction of uncertainty as solely an expert concern was molded into a state of politically workable public uncertainty. This paper demonstrates how publics can be constructed as instruments of credible policymaking, and suggests the potential for public alienation if non-experts feel they have not been fairly represented.
In: Science and public policy: journal of the Science Policy Foundation, Band 32, Heft 1, S. 55-64
ISSN: 1471-5430
In: Science & public policy: SPP ; journal of the Science Policy Foundation, Band 32, Heft 1, S. 55-64
ISSN: 0302-3427, 0036-8245
In: Science and public policy: journal of the Science Policy Foundation, Band 31, Heft 1, S. 77-78
ISSN: 1471-5430
In: Science and public policy: journal of the Science Policy Foundation, Band 29, Heft 2, S. 150-151
ISSN: 1471-5430
In: Conservation ecology: a peer-reviewed journal ; a publication of the Ecological Society of America, Band 5, Heft 2
ISSN: 1195-5449
In: Stilgoe, J., & O'Donovan, C. (2023). Trials and tribulations. in Cugurullo, F., Caprotti, F., Cook, M., Karvonen, A., McGuirk, P., & Marvin, S. (Eds.). (2023). Artificial Intelligence and the City: Urbanistic Perspectives on AI. Taylor & Francis.
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In: Science and public policy: journal of the Science Policy Foundation, Band 48, Heft 6, S. 849-859
ISSN: 1471-5430
The investment and excitement surrounding self-driving vehicles are huge. We know from earlier transport innovations that technological transitions can reshape lives, livelihoods, and places in profound ways. There is therefore a case for wide democratic debate, but how should this take place? In this paper, we explore the tensions between democratic experiments and technological ones with a focus on policy for nascent self-driving/automated vehicles. We describe a dominant model of public engagement that imagines increased public awareness leading to acceptance and then adoption of the technology. We explore the flaws in this model, particularly in how it treats members of the public as users rather than citizens and the presumption that the technology is well-defined. Analysing two large public dialogue exercises in which we were involved, our conclusion is that public dialogue can contribute to shifting established ideas about both technologies and the public, but that this reframing demands openness on the part of policymakers and other stakeholders. Rather than seeing public dialogues as individual exercises, it would be better to evaluate the governance of emerging technologies in terms of whether it takes place 'in dialogue'.