Ethical issues in science communication
Subtitle: a theory-based approach : proceedings of a symposium at Iowa State University, May 30-June 1, 2013
By: edited by Jean Goodwin, Michael F. Dahlstrom, Susanna Priest
Contributors: Goodwin, Jean, editor; Dahlstrom, Michael T., editor; Priest, Susanna, editor
Series: Proceedings of the Summer Symposia on Science Communication at Iowa State University; Proceedings of the Summer Symposia on Science Communication at Iowa State University
Publisher: Science Communication Project
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Ames, IA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9781490448817
Subjects: Communication in science; Congresses; Science news; Risk communication; Moral and ethical aspects; Informed consent (Medical law)
Description: "As science continues to become implicated in personal and collective decision-making, the stakes for communicating science to non-expert audiences intensify. In such an environment, a clear articulation of ethical issues arising from science communication is essential. If the audience's normative expectations are not understood, even the best-intentioned science communicator find [sic] herself exacerbating existing controversies over decisions with additional unproductive controversies over appropriate communication. Unfortunately, this needed articulation does not yet exist. The purpose of the Third Iowa State Summer Symposium on Science Communication was to bring together scholars from across disciplines whose research can supply a theoretical articulation of the ethical issues surrounding the communication of science to non-expert audiences. Participants contributed both humanistic and social scientific approaches to the issues, drawing from disciplines including science communication, rhetoric, philosophy, and science and technology studies."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments --; title: Introduction: Towards a research agenda for science communication ethics  -- Jean Goodwin, Michael F. Dahlstrom, Iowa State University, & Susanna Priest, University of Washington -- Selected conference papers and abstracts.; title: Autonomy, manipulation, and respect (for mortals)  -- Thomas Atchison, Metropolitan State University; title: "Wrong, but it worked": how lay citizens assess the ethics of communicating about risk in the context of local scientific/technological controversy  -- Andrew R. Binder, North Carolina State University; title: The discursive construction of risk in medicine and health media  -- Carolina Fernandez Branson, University of Minnesota; title: Science communicators as ethical agents: taking a reflexive politics of knowledge approach in technoscience controversies  -- Kelly Bronson, St. Thomas University; title: Walking the ethical tightrope between science and policy  -- Franca Davenport, University of the West of England; title: Attracting audiences to science news: ethical and moral considerations  -- William Evans, University of Alabama; title: A preliminary report on the cases for teaching responsible communication of science project  -- Jean Goodwin, Michael F. Dahlstrom, & Clark Wolf, Iowa State University; title: From stakeholders to experts: a careful approach to democratizing pharmaceuticals policy  -- S. Scott Graham, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, & Christa B. Teston, The Ohio State University; title: Communication throughout investigation: a pragmatist framework for conducting clinical science  -- Susan C.C. Hawthorne, St. Catherine University; title: The two-dimensional values gap in the GMOf controversy  -- Daniel Hicks, Western University; title: Lost in translation: how science communicators are depriving modern society of science  -- Josette Jacobs, Wageningen University; title: Bridging the gap on both sides: issues of an ethical communication of science  -- Alain Létourneau, Université de Sherbrooke; title: Nano-scientists as consumers and sources of information about nanoethics  -- Mind-Ching Liang, Anthony Dudo, Lee Ann Kahlor, Niveen Abi Ghannam, & Allison J. Lazard, University of Texas at Austin; title: Ethical implications of global scientific communication: exploring classroom practices in technical communication courses  -- Diane L. Martinez, Western Carolina University; title: The ethics of distributing scientific knowledge: epistemic and ethical injustices in context  -- Fabien Medvecky & Joan Leach, University of Queensland; title: Encounters between science communication idea(l)s: a comparative exploration of two science communication logics, with a focus on possible conflicts and the potential for mutual learning  -- Gitte Meyer, Copenhagen Business School; title: Bioeconomy institute trading cards: promotional objects with internal purposes  -- Sara Beth Parks, Iowa State University; title: A role for social justice in science communication?  -- Robin L. Pierce, Delft University of Technology; title: Moving from a legally adequate consent to a morally valid consent: using rhetoric and scientific and technical communication to investigate Latino understanding of a n informed consent conference  -- Laura M. Pigozzi, University of Minnesota; title: Understanding "understanding" in science communication  -- Nicky Priaulx & Martin Weinel, Cardiff University; title: Can strategic and democratic goals coexist in communicating science?: nanotechnology as a case study in the ethics of science communication and the need for "critical" science literacy  -- Susanna Priest, University of Washington; title: Science communication as communication about persons  -- Brent Ranalli, The Cadmus Group; title: Framing uncertainty: a case for purposefully using frames in science communication  -- Molly Simis, University of Wisconsin-Madison; title: Framing science for public action  -- Leah Sprain, University of Colorado-Boulder; title: #overlyhonestmethods: ethical implications when scientists joke with each other on public social media  -- Janet D. Stemwedel, San José State University; title: Manufacturing Kairos: opportunity and ethos in emerging biotechnologies  -- Molly Hartzog Storment, North Carolina State Universtiy; title: Genre mash-up: when two worldviews collide, the genre conventions from each undergo a syncretistic re-emergence  -- Karen Taylor, Terry Chapin, & Richard Hum, University of Alaska-Fairbanks; title: Uncertainty, spheres of argument, and the transgressive ethos of the science adviser  -- Lynda Walsh, University of Nevada-Reno, & Kenny Walker, University of Arizona; title: Enriching rationality: rehabilitating practical reason in service to sustainable agriculture  -- Betty L. Wells, Iowa State University; title: Communicating climate science: components of engaging the agricultural audience -- Adam K. Wilke, Iowa State University.