TY - GEN
T1 - "take caution before using the contents of this report out of context"
T2 - 34th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2016
AU - Schreiber, Joanna
AU - Carrion, Melissa
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 ACM.
PY - 2016/9/23
Y1 - 2016/9/23
N2 - Mapping theories and frameworks (e.g., Actor-Network Theory) offer us a way to contextualize and examine the risk communication practices enacted in controversial public discourses such as gun control and vaccination. Such ongoing controversies (often playing out over years and even decades) typify the reactionary model of risk communication [5] in which experts and public audiences communicate past rather than with each other (participatory model) in attempts to influence policy and opinions in the public sphere. In this project, we ask what role government-funded research plays in shaping these discourses. We begin with two government-funded research reports made available to the public in order to examine how these reports are linked, cited, and interpreted across various websites and social media. Mapping these communication practices can help us better understand the reactionary model, how communication design and medium contribute to this model, and possibilities for intervention to move toward a participatory model as advocated by scholars [1, 2].
AB - Mapping theories and frameworks (e.g., Actor-Network Theory) offer us a way to contextualize and examine the risk communication practices enacted in controversial public discourses such as gun control and vaccination. Such ongoing controversies (often playing out over years and even decades) typify the reactionary model of risk communication [5] in which experts and public audiences communicate past rather than with each other (participatory model) in attempts to influence policy and opinions in the public sphere. In this project, we ask what role government-funded research plays in shaping these discourses. We begin with two government-funded research reports made available to the public in order to examine how these reports are linked, cited, and interpreted across various websites and social media. Mapping these communication practices can help us better understand the reactionary model, how communication design and medium contribute to this model, and possibilities for intervention to move toward a participatory model as advocated by scholars [1, 2].
KW - Actor-Network Theory
KW - Controversial Public Discourse
KW - Participatory Design
KW - Risk Communication
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85003707598&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2987592.2987640
DO - 10.1145/2987592.2987640
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85003707598
T3 - SIGDOC 2016 - 34th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication
BT - SIGDOC 2016 - 34th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication
A2 - Gunning, Sarah
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 23 September 2016 through 24 September 2016
ER -