Citizen Voices

Louise Phillips is associate professor in the Department of Communication, Business, and Information Technologies at the University of Roskilde.

'This focus on the dialogic process is both timely and stimulating, given the increasing inclusion of public participation in governance processes, particularly in relation to development of government policy on environmental science.'

• Chapter 1: Introduction – Louise Phillips, Anabela Carvalho and Julie DoylePART I: Public Participation and Media Chapter 2: When Citizens Matter in the Mass Mediation of Science: The Role of Imagined Audiences in Multidirectional Communication Processes – Ursula PlesnerChapter 3: Contested Ethanol Dreams – Public Participation in Environmental News – Annika Egan Sjölander and Anna Maria Jönsson Chapter 4: Citizen Action and Post-Socialist Journalism: The Responses of Journalists to a Citizen Campaign against Government Policy towards Smoking – Pavel P. AntonovChapter 5: Discourse Communities as Catalysts for Science and Technology Communication – Hedwig te MolderChapter 6: Online Talk: How Exposure to Disagreement in Online Comments Affects Beliefs in the Promise of Controversial Science – Ashley A. Anderson, Dominique Brossard, Dietram A. Scheufele and Michael A. XenosPART II: Public Participation and Formal Public Engagement Initiatives Chapter 7: Communicating about Climate Change in a Citizen Consultation: Dynamics of Exclusion and Inclusion – Louise PhillipsChapter 8: Public Engagement as a Field of Tension between Bottom-up and Top-down Strategies: Critical Discourse Moments in an ‘Energy Town’ – Anders Horsbøl and Inger LassenChapter 9: The Stem Cell NetWork: Communicating Social Science through a Spatial Installation – Maja HorstChapter 10: Issue-centred Exploration with a Citizen Panel: Knowledge Communication and ICTs in Participatory City Governance – Pauliina Lehtonen and Jarkko Bamberg