Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23385
Notes:
Checkbiotech via Food Safety Network. 3 pages., Author highlights the comments of a speaker who urged fellow biotechnology scientists: "You have to take the time to communicate to the public. If you don't, the activists will."
15 pages., via online journal., This paper presents selected highlights from the ‘Engaging with society’ session of EFSA's third Scientific Conference ‘Science, Food and Society’ (Parma, Italy, 18–21 September 2018). The social dimension for scientific advisory bodies largely concerns science communication and public engagement. The political, economic and technological transformation of contemporary societies is challenging conventional structures and approaches in these areas. The disintermediation of communication and the proliferation of misinformation, it is argued, herald the onset of the post‐truth society. A better understanding of the way individuals consume information today has led to the development of tools to guide mediators such as journalists and communication specialists in countering these trends. Public engagement can reinforce confidence in regulatory bodies and potentially contribute to the quality of the scientific process. Scientific advisory bodies in Europe have created strategies and mechanisms to engage the public that are designed to increase transparency and representativeness. To be effective, several engagement mechanisms are needed, although factors such as resource constraints, institutional culture and public/stakeholder attitudes may limit their development. In conclusion, a more vigorous role for social research is needed to place scientific risk assessment within broader socio‐economic and political contexts. Social science expertise can help to define more impactful public information strategies and to explore the potential opportunities that engaged stakeholders and citizens can make to sustain and strengthen regulatory science.
Romer, B. (author / Universitat Kiel, Kiel, Germany)
Format:
Conference paper
Language:
German
Publication Date:
1987
Published:
Germany
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 86 Document Number: C05707
Notes:
AGRICOLA IND 88035251; Paper presented at the "Btx-Agrar" meeting, 1986, Kiel, West Germany., In: Schiefern, Gerhard and Graumann, Ulrich, eds. Information, Beratung, Markt : Bildschirmtext in der Landwirtschaft : Vortrage der Anbietertagung "Btx-Agrar 86." Kiel, Germany : Wissenschaftsverlag Vauk, 1987. p. 37-55
