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Citizen engagement processes as information systems: the role of knowledge and the concept of translation quality

Author(s) -

Tom HorlickJones,

Gene Rowe,

John Walls

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

public understanding of science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.116

H-Index - 77

eISSN - 1361-6609

pISSN - 0963-6625

DOI - 10.1177/0963662506074792

Subject(s) - embodied cognition , public engagement , promotion (chess) , quality (philosophy) , public relations , political science , government (linguistics) , public participation , deliberative democracy , democracy , sociology , knowledge management , politics , computer science , epistemology , philosophy , linguistics , law , artificial intelligence

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

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