Michael Keren is a professor and Canada Research Chairin the Department of Political Science and the Department ofCommunication and Culture at the University of Calgary. He is theauthor of many books on public intellectuals, political communication,and political literature, including Blogosphere: The New PoliticalArena and The Citizen's Voice: Twentieth-CenturyPolitics and Literature. Richard Hawkins isprofessor in the Science, Technology and Society Program at theUniversity of Calgary, senior fellow at the Centre for InnovationStudies (THECIS), and a fellow of the Institute for Science, Societyand Policy at the University of Ottawa. He has served as policyconsultant for such clients as the World Bank and Industry Canada andhas authored more than a hundred scientific publications and technicalreports on science, technology, and industry policy.

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• Acknowledgements viiIntroduction New Challenges to Knowledge in the Public Sphere— Richard Hawkins and Michael Keren PART I • PERSPECTIVES1 Establishing the Public Legitimacy and Value of ScientificKnowledge in an Information Ether — Richard Hawkins2 Public Intellectuals, Media Intellectuals, and AcademicIntellectuals: Comparing the Space of Opinion in Canada and the UnitedStates — Eleanor Townsley3 The Eye of the Swarm: Collective Intelligence and the PublicIntellectual — Jacob G. Foster4 Creating the Conditions for an Intellectually Active People: WhatToday's Public Intellectual Can Learn from Anonymous — LizPirnie PART II • CASE STUDIES5 "Trust Me—I'm a Public Intellectual":Margaret Atwood's and David Suzuki's Social Epistemologiesof Climate Science — Boaz Miller6 Engendering a New Generation of Public Intellectuals: SpeakingTruth to Power with Grace and Humility — Karim-Aly Kassam7 Reflections on My Dubious Experience as a Public Intellectual— Barry Cooper8 Intellectual Discourse Online — Michael Keren List of Contributors 199Index 203

Michael Keren is a professor and Canada Research Chairin the Department of Political Science and the Department ofCommunication and Culture at the University of Calgary. He is theauthor of many books on public intellectuals, political communication,and political literature, including Blogosphere: The New PoliticalArena and The Citizen's Voice: Twentieth-CenturyPolitics and Literature. Richard Hawkins isprofessor in the Science, Technology and Society Program at theUniversity of Calgary, senior fellow at the Centre for InnovationStudies (THECIS), and a fellow of the Institute for Science, Societyand Policy at the University of Ottawa. He has served as policyconsultant for such clients as the World Bank and Industry Canada andhas authored more than a hundred scientific publications and technicalreports on science, technology, and industry policy.

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• Acknowledgements viiIntroduction New Challenges to Knowledge in the Public Sphere— Richard Hawkins and Michael Keren PART I • PERSPECTIVES1 Establishing the Public Legitimacy and Value of ScientificKnowledge in an Information Ether — Richard Hawkins2 Public Intellectuals, Media Intellectuals, and AcademicIntellectuals: Comparing the Space of Opinion in Canada and the UnitedStates — Eleanor Townsley3 The Eye of the Swarm: Collective Intelligence and the PublicIntellectual — Jacob G. Foster4 Creating the Conditions for an Intellectually Active People: WhatToday's Public Intellectual Can Learn from Anonymous — LizPirnie PART II • CASE STUDIES5 "Trust Me—I'm a Public Intellectual":Margaret Atwood's and David Suzuki's Social Epistemologiesof Climate Science — Boaz Miller6 Engendering a New Generation of Public Intellectuals: SpeakingTruth to Power with Grace and Humility — Karim-Aly Kassam7 Reflections on My Dubious Experience as a Public Intellectual— Barry Cooper8 Intellectual Discourse Online — Michael Keren List of Contributors 199Index 203