Stilgoe Jack, Lock Simon J, Wilsdon James
University College London, UK.
Public Underst Sci. 2014 Jan;23(1):4-15. doi: 10.1177/0963662513518154.
This introductory essay looks back on the two decades since the journal Public Understanding of Science was launched. Drawing on the invited commentaries in this special issue, we can see narratives of continuity and change around the practice and politics of public engagement with science. Public engagement would seem to be a necessary but insufficient part of opening up science and its governance. Those of us who have been involved in advocating, conducting and evaluating public engagement practice could be accused of over-promising. If we, as social scientists, are going to continue a normative commitment to the idea of public engagement, we should therefore develop new lines of argument and analysis. Our support for the idea of public engagement needs qualifying, as part of a broader, more ambitious interest in the idea of publicly engaged science.
这篇引言文章回顾了自《公众对科学的理解》杂志创刊以来的二十年。借助本期特刊中的特邀评论，我们可以看到围绕公众参与科学的实践与政策，既有连续性的叙述，也有变化的叙述。公众参与似乎是开放科学及其治理的必要但不充分的一部分。我们这些参与倡导、开展和评估公众参与实践的人可能会被指责承诺过多。因此，如果我们作为社会科学家要继续对公众参与的理念做出规范性承诺，就应该发展新的论证和分析思路。作为对公众参与科学这一理念更广泛、更宏大兴趣的一部分，我们对公众参与理念的支持需要加以限定。
