[ecrea] New ECREA book "Citizens Voices" published

ECREA is happy to announce the publication of "Citizen Voices. 
Performing Public Participation in Science and Environment 
Communication", edited by Louise Phillips, Anabela Carvalho and Julie Doyle.

This book deals with the following questions: How is 'participation' 
ascribed meaning and practiced in science and environment communication? 
And how are citizen voices articulated, invoked, heard, marginalized or 
silenced in those processes? Citizen Voices takes its starting point in 
the so-called dialogic or participatory turn in scientific and 
environmental governance in which practices claiming to be based on 
principles of participation, dialogue and citizen involvement have 
proliferated. The book goes beyond the buzzword of 'participation' in 
order to give empirically rich, theoretically informed and critical 
accounts of how citizen participation is understood and enacted in mass 
mediation and public engagement practices. A diverse series of studies 
across Europe and the US are presented, providing readers with empirical 
insights into the articulation of citizen voices in different national, 
cultural and institutional contexts. Building bridges across media and 
communication studies, science and technology studies, environmental 
studies and urban planning studies, Citizen Voices also offers a range 
of different theories and research methodologies which foreground the 
role of communication processes in scientific and environmental governance.

> More information from the Intellect book webpage > 
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4937/

A copy of this book has been shipped to our second year individual 
members, and to the coordinators of our associated and institutional 
members. By sending 729 copies of this book to ECREA's core membership, 
the organisation not only wants to express its appreciation for these 
members' continued support, but ECREA also wants to maximise this 
publication's audience and circulation. ECREA considers the investment 
in the Book Series as an important contribution to one of its main 
objectives, which is to stimulate European communication and media 
studies research.

The ECREA Book Series @ Intellect, and the new Routledge Studies in 
European Communication Research and Education Series aim to offer a 
structural publication opportunities for ECREA members, as (according to 
our publication guidelines) at least half of the authors and one of the 
editors needs to be an ECREA member. So far this approach has worked 
well, as is evidenced not only by this publication, but also by our 
extensive list of publications.

> Read more about the ECREA Book series @ Intellect > 
http://www.ecrea.eu/benefits/bookseries
> Reed more about the new Routledge Studies in European Communication 
Research and Education Series > http://www.ecrea.eu/news/article/id/190
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