Strategic Place-Making and Public Scientific Outreach in the American Chemical Society’s National Historic Chemical Landmarks Program-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Strategic Place-Making and Public Scientific Outreach in the American Chemical Society’s National Historic Chemical Landmarks Program

Published:2021-04-09 Issue:3 Volume:43 Page:336-357
ISSN:1075-5470
Container-title:Science Communication
language:en
Short-container-title:Science Communication

Author:

Mann Benjamin W.¹^ORCID,Krall Madison A.²,Parks Melissa M.³,Krebs Emily²,Maison Kourtney²,Jensen Robin E.²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Dixie State University, St. George, UT, USA

2. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

3. University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Abstract

This article investigates place-making—a process involving appeals to embodiment, materiality, and spatial arrangement—as a means for building communicative relationships between technical scientific communities and lay publics. Drawing from discourses related to the National Historic Chemical Landmark Program’s 89 landmarks, we illustrate how the National Historic Chemical Landmark Program builds different types of relationships with nonexperts via the utilization of place as (a) narrative framing device, (b) proprietor, and (c) gatekeeper. These findings reveal the ways in which specific strategic place-making gestures can support more or less public engagement in the processes of scientific work and outreach.

Funder

Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer Library of Chemical History

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Sociology and Political Science

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/10755470211006685

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