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Knowledges in Context
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EngineeringCommunicationSemanticsKnowledge TechnologyDisciplinary SpecialistsScience StudyHistory Of ScienceKnowledge SocietyScience CommunicationCitizen ScienceTerm ScienceResponsible ScienceKnowledge RepresentationScientific LiteracyKnowledge AcquisitionKnowledge ReasoningEpistemologyKnowledge ManagementEveryday ExperienceArtsScience Policy
Prior work emphasizes key points that must be highlighted. The study explores how citizens relate to science, asking what people mean by science, where they seek scientific information, what motivates them, and how they integrate it into everyday life. They analyze everyday encounters with science and expertise, focusing on how authority is constructed.
Our projects begin by exploring the relationships between citizens and sourcesbetween members and groups of the public and that diverse body of institutions, knowledges, and disciplinary specialists that we term science. We ask questions such as: What do people mean by science? Where do they turn for scientific information and advice? What motivates them to do so? How do they relate this information or advice to everyday experience and to other forms of knowledge? We focus on the diverse encounters with science and expertise that typify everyday experience, a central analytical issue being the construction of authority. Some important prior points must be emphasized: