University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
Public Underst Sci. 2021 Feb;30(2):179-195. doi: 10.1177/0963662520966742. Epub 2020 Oct 25.
Empowering ordinary citizens with the capacity to deliberate is a core issue in science communication. Despite growing deliberative practices in developed nations, it is significantly less understood how public deliberation can happen among populations who live with limited educational resources and poor urban infrastructure in developing countries. This article studied a case of a well-designed deliberation method, Deliberative Poll, in Tamale, Ghana. I analyzed the stimulus information video and thousands of speech acts from deliberation transcripts to examine how expertise was used and what was deliberated in public dialogue. A broad range of expertise and interests were represented. Participants had thoughtful discussions on complex policy issues and their discussion results were considered by local policymakers. This article contributes to our understanding of how to effectively foster public deliberation among populations in the Global South and measure the nuances of expertise and public reasoning on science.
赋予普通公民进行审议的能力是科学传播的核心问题。尽管在发达国家，审议实践日益增多，但对于发展中国家那些教育资源有限、城市基础设施较差的人群，公众审议如何能够实现，人们的理解还非常有限。本文研究了加纳塔马利市一个精心设计的审议方法——审议民意测验的案例。我分析了审议记录中的刺激信息视频和数千个言语行为，以研究专业知识是如何被使用的，以及在公共对话中讨论了什么。参与者代表了广泛的专业知识和兴趣。他们就复杂的政策问题进行了深思熟虑的讨论，当地政策制定者也考虑了他们的讨论结果。本文有助于我们理解如何在南方国家的人群中有效地促进公共审议，并衡量科学领域专业知识和公众推理的细微差别。
