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Sarah R. Davies and Maja Horst

Science Communication

Sarah R. Davies • Maja Horst

Science Communication Culture, Identity and Citizenship

Sarah R. Davies Department of Media, Cognition and Communication University of Copenhagen København S, Denmark

Maja Horst Department of Media, Cognition and Communication University of Copenhagen København S, Denmark

ISBN 978-1-137-50364-0 ISBN 978-1-137-50366-4 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-50366-4

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Acknowledgements

It is hard to remember where the idea for this book first came from. We have worked together for some time, and our conversations have often been filled with aspects of science communication that we were excited about, questions that we did not know the answers to, and fascination with the way that the field of science communication is developing. Eventually, those conversations solidified into the idea of writing a book that explored some of the approaches to thinking about science communication we found particularly interesting. Together we worked through different topics, concepts, theoretical lenses, and methodological angles that we thought might open up the study of science communication. The result is what you find in this book. It is much easier to think of all the people who have helped us as we did this. Brian Trench, Kristian H Nielsen, Alan Irwin, Majken Schultz, and an anonymous reviewer gave us ext