Arizona State University, USA.
University of Southern California, USA.
Public Underst Sci. 2017 Aug;26(6):634-649. doi: 10.1177/0963662515620970. Epub 2016 Jan 14.
Public engagement with science and technology is now widely used in science policy and communication. Touted as a means of enhancing democratic discussion of science and technology, analysis of public engagement with science and technology has shown that it is often weakly tied to scientific governance. In this article, we suggest that the notion of capacity building might be a way of reframing the democratic potential of public engagement with science and technology activities. Drawing on literatures from public policy and administration, we outline how public engagement with science and technology might build citizen capacity, before using the notion of capacity building to develop five principles for the design of public engagement with science and technology. We demonstrate the use of these principles through a discussion of the development and realization of the pilot for a large-scale public engagement with science and technology activity, the Futurescape City Tours, which was carried out in Arizona in 2012.
现在，公众参与科学技术活动已被广泛应用于科学政策和科学传播领域。有人认为，这种活动是加强对科学技术进行民主讨论的一种手段，但对公众参与科学技术活动的分析表明，这种活动往往与科学治理的关联度很弱。在本文中，我们提出，能力建设的概念可能为重新构建公众参与科学技术活动的民主潜力提供一种途径。我们借鉴公共政策和公共行政领域的文献，概述了公众参与科学技术活动如何能够增强公民能力，然后利用能力建设的概念制定了五项公众参与科学技术活动的设计原则。我们通过讨论 2012 年在亚利桑那州开展的大型公众参与科学技术活动——未来城市之旅的试点开发和实施，展示了这些原则的应用。
