[Commlist] CFP: Communication and Socio-Scientific Controversies in Health and Environment

*Anuario electrónico de estudios en Comunicación Social "Disertaciones"*

https://revistas.urosario.edu.co/index.php/disertaciones/index

/Articles for Volume 14, Issue 2 (JJul-Dec, 2021). Dedicated to 
Communication and Socio-Scientific Controversies in Health and Environment/


The modern promise that science and technology would lead us to an 
unlimited development has been tensioned by the new technologies of 
information, the ICTs. The changes in the relationship between experts 
and citizens show that tension and the socio-scientific controversies in 
the field of scientific-technological research are now the study objects 
in scientific-technological, health, and environmental research.

It has been more than fifteen years since the World Summit on the 
Information Society in Geneva in 2003, where the representatives of the 
member States of United Nations announced the foundation of a society 
based on the exchange of knowledge, in which the multiplication of the 
information networks, digital literacy and the promised end of the 
digital divide would be the definitive factors to defeat poverty and 
ignorance.

The unlucky prophecy predicted something else than broken promises. The 
ambivalence of the so-called information and knowledge society is 
clearly shown in the fact that, on the one side, the global horizons 
grow, communications speed up and more sophisticated technical devices 
are produced, but on the other, citizens have more tools to question 
them. We encounter citizens that criticize, resist and actively look for 
new forms of participation or generation of knowledge when they face the 
scientific and technological developments that affect them.

In a hyper-informed world, in which the once legitimate production of 
knowledge and the institutional figure of the expert is continuously 
questioned, (re)generating new and legitimate voices that dispute the 
formerly exclusive fields of knowledge, it becomes central to ask not 
only about the access to information, but also about its uses for 
decision-making and in the different forms of citizen participation.

The Public Communication of Science and Technology in controversies 
about scientific-technical developments in health or the environment is 
a privileged space to observe these disputed fields. The appearance of 
actors whose legitimacy does not come from the conventional validation 
mechanisms and the voices of different rationalities in the diverse 
communicational spaces come together in public debates where it is not 
only pertinent to question legitimacy, but also the positioning, the 
links and participation of citizens.

In this call for papers, the Anuario Electrónico de Estudios en 
Comunicación Social “Disertaciones” looks for original papers dealing 
with socio-scientific/socio-technological controversies in the fields of 
health and environment. This refers (not exclusively) to:

  * Socio-scientific controversies
  * Public Communication of Science and Technology models
  * Sustainable development
  * Social communication health campaigns
  * Circulation and appropriation of knowledge: non-professional expert
    citizens
  * Environmental debates and sacrifice zones
  * Big development project in protected territories
  * The voices of experts
  * Communication and citizen participation


The studies about socio-scientific and socio-technological 
controversies, especially in health and environment, have been great 
mines for knowledge production, particularly from the perspective of the 
Social Studies of Science and Technology (STS). However, this line of 
work has only partially penetrated in the field of communication 
studies, especially in the Latin-American context. The Public 
Communication of Science and Technology models (deficit, dialogue and 
participative) have drawn a line in which there is an undoubted need of 
further digging, especially with empiric research. This volume of the 
Disertaciones academic journal seeks to help researchers from different 
disciplines, but with a particular focus in the field of communication, 
to keep contributing in this direction.

Deadline: September 15, 2020.

Coordinated by Verónica Rocamora ((veronica.rocamora /at/ usach.cl)) y Claudio 
Broitman ((claudio.broitman /at/ usach.cl)), of the Santiago de Chile University.
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