Book | Chapter
Organic engagement of public ecologies
pp. 121-146
Abstract
This chapter articulates a public engagement methodology that carefully navigates the middle ground between idealist and cynical purposes, combining Warner's understanding of publics with vernacular rhetoric and ethnography, leading to a coherent set of principles for more ecologically valid research, which we call "organic public engagement." Working from the conclusions of the previous four chapters and research in quasi-ethnography and ethnographic approaches to science and technology studies, we develop six principles that guide organic public engagement. The chapter concludes with a description of how the methodology was deployed in a specific case, offering a concrete example for future research and practice.
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Lerner Adam S., Gehrke Pat J. (2018) Organic public engagement: how ecological thinking transforms public engagement with science. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 121-146
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-64397-7_6
Full citation:
Lerner Adam S., Gehrke Pat J. (2018) Organic engagement of public ecologies, In: Organic public engagement, Dordrecht, Springer, 121–146.