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PCST-8 CONFERENCE
Barcelona, Universal Forum of Cultures, June 2004


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PARALLEL SESSIONS


25. Proposals and initiatives for "public dialogue"

Papers parallel session 25 [pdf]

Chair: Miguel Ángel Quintanilla, Profesor of Philosophy of Science at the Universidad de Salamanca
Rapporteur: Núria Zapater

Science and Society. Twelve cliché questions and forty-eight controversial answers
Teresa Escalas Tramullas
Maite Buil Blasco
Marta Colomer
Núria Güell Esquius

Social participation Forums dealing with Scientific and Environmental issues
Núria Güell Esquius
Teresa Escalas
Marta Colomer Salarich
Maite Buil Blasco

Do public debates offer an effective mechanism to engage the public
Chris Edwards

Diffuse exhibition as a way of talking about science and environmental issues. Design, evaluation and conclusions
Marta Colomer Salarich
Teresa Escalas Tramullas
Núria Güell Esquius
Maite Buil Blasco

Public participation in climate change knowledge production. An assessment of communication models as governance
Joana Díaz Pont

Darwin Centre Live – Using Technology To Showcase Museum Science
Emma Freeman


26. Interactions between science communication and science policies

Papers parallel session 26
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Chair: Steve Miller, Profesor and head of department of Science and technology studies at the UCL (University College London)
Rapporteur: Sergio Álvarez

Science on Stage!
Susana Alonso Argul
Laura Barrufet Miro

Identity and communication: Who collaborates in collaborative research?
Michelle Riedlinger
Susan Mackay
Cindy Gallois

Science and Society: a dialogue for the future
Pilar Tigeras
Jaime Pérez del Val

Public policies for scientific culture - when maturity brings about evaluation
Ana Correia Moutinho

Towards an Anatomy of Public Engagement with Medical Genetics
Alexandra Plows
Ian Welsh
Robert Evans

Science Communication at the Local Level: an Evaluation of Local Authority Communication Strategies Relating to Air
Emma Weitkamp
Frank Burnet
Jim Longhurst
Clare Beattie
David Gibbs

Science Information Needs of U.S. Policy Leaders
Rick E. Borchelt
Melissa L. Withers

A Hurricane of Change
Neil Calder

Representations of science in the knowledge society
Brian Trench

Finding common language
Fiona Barbagallo
Jill Nelson

Scientists and politicians: the need to communicate
An update since PCST Geneva 2001

Wendy Parsons


27. Cultural differences in public understanding of sciences

Papers parallel session 27
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Chair: Toss Gascoigne, Executive director of CHASS (Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences)
Rapporteur: Eneko Alberdi

Social Perception of the Science and Technology in the city of Melilla
José Manuel Cabo Hernández
Carmen Enrique Mirón
José Ramón Cortiña Jurado

Encuesta sobre Percepción Pública de la Ciencia. Indicadores de Percepción Pública, Cultura Científica, Participación Ciudadana
Miguel Ángel Quintanilla
Diego Lawler

Measuring public perception of science in Ibero America: the RICYT/OEI's study and Argentina's national survey
Carmelo Polino
María Eugenia Fazio
Leonardo Vaccarezza

Public perception of science in Eastern and Central Europe
Michel Claessens

Scientific Citizenship Culture. A Latin American View
Sergio Ricardo Quiroga Macleimont

Public Perceptions of Science, as Reflected in the Conduct of Legal Institutions
Jeffrey H. Matsuura

Framing as a theory for the communication of science and technology
Urs Dahinden

Communicating Climate Change: Challenges Posed by the Divergence in Lay and Expert Understanding
Lorraine Whitmarsh


28. Discourse analysis contributions to PCST study

Papers parallel session 28
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Chair: Helena Calsamiglia, Profesor of Discourse Analysis at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Rapporteur: Laura Calpe

Science Popularization Practices from a Linguistic Point of View
Daniel Cassany
Carmen López

Science in the Press: Problems and Possibilities of Recontextualization
Helena Calsamiglia

Science in court. Experts and advisers as post-academic science communicators
Licia Gambarelli

The Rhetoric of Breakthroughs in the Communication of Biotechnoscience
Fernando Cascais

Radioscopy of the medical speech
Margérard Anne-Laurence

Cosmoeducation: The Emerging Alliance of Astronomy Teaching and Transpersonal Psychology
Luziânia Angelli Lins de Medeiros
Luiz Carlos Jafelice

Astronomy Teaching at the High School Level from a Humanistic Approach
Gilvana Benevides
Luiz Carlos Jafelice

The Sky in the Indigenous Oral Tradition in the Rio Grande do Norte State, Brazil
Luiz Carlos Jafelice
Neilton S. F. de Lucena
Antenor C. de Araújo
Eduardo A. O. Rocha
Walter R. R. e Silva Jr.
Gilvana Benevides
Aucides B. de Sales
Julie A. Cavignac

Knowledge, discourse, and scientific communication
Teun A. van Dijk


29. Is it a real social participation in GMO discussion?

Papers parallel session 29
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Chair: Lisbeth Fog, President of the Colombian Association of Science Journalism (ACPC)
Rapporteur: Guillermo Santamaría

The democratisation of a `scientific` decision: The `GM Nation?` experiment in the UK
Matthew Harvey

Communicating Genetic Engineering: New Concepts for Social Participation
Bernhard Wieser

Framing Biotechnologies in Greece
Moses A. Boudourides
Dimitris B. Kalamaras
Solomon E. Eleftheriadis

Scientific Citizenship: Danish Citizens and Biotechnology
Niels Mejlgaard

Incommensurate Risks: Debates Concerning Genetic Modification and Cultural Transgression among New Zealand Maori
Richard A Benton
R. Mere Roberts
Terre Satterfield
Nena B.E. Benton

Journalistic coverage evolution of GMO in the Colombian press
Mara Brugés Polo
Lisbeth Fog


30. WORKSHOP: Networking with science communicators in developing countries: the SciDev.Net experience

Barbara Keating, Katie Mantell and Luisa Massarani SciDev.Net staff members will give three short presentations on how delegates can get involved with SciDev.Net activities, with discussions afterwards. From networking opportunities to news writing and dissemination, the speakers will invite delegates to become part of the SciDev.Net network. Delegates will also have the opportunity to provide their ideas on the future direction of SciDev.Net, including in particular the development of its e-guide on science communication.

Breakdown of talk:
* Introduce SciDev.Net
* KM discusses news and how to become a contributor and help disseminate news. KM will also initiate discussion on expansion of SciDev.Net's news correspondents.
* LM discusses the Latin America network and its activities in capacity building in Latin American science communication. LM will highlight initiatives such as the workshops and ideas for a regional news-alert service.
* BK discusses the e-guide to science communication and how to increase its relevance to science communicators in developing countries.
* Question and answers.