Presentation to the World Conference on Science Literacy in September 2018 in which I argue that science literacy is just one of many difference communication objectives that scientists might pursue through their communication efforts.
An invited talk given to a group of neuroethics researchers. The focus of the discussion was how we might think about the likely outcomes of engagement activities. This is similar to some previous talks but also includes some new bits and pieces that reflect our continued effort to work through these ideas. Appreciated the chance to share.
2022 - Fostering Strategic Science Communication related to TrustJohn C. Besley
This was a 1-hour talk for some colleagues at Northwestern. Laid out three things: What we've heard from talking to people in the scientific community about science communication, how we think about science communication through the lens of strategy, and how we study how scientists think about communication choices.
2021 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public TalkJohn C. Besley
An updated version of the 'strategic science communication' talk for astronomy communicators. Focuses more deeply on the goals that might make the most sense for basic science researchers.
Presentation to the World Conference on Science Literacy in September 2018 in which I argue that science literacy is just one of many difference communication objectives that scientists might pursue through their communication efforts.
An invited talk given to a group of neuroethics researchers. The focus of the discussion was how we might think about the likely outcomes of engagement activities. This is similar to some previous talks but also includes some new bits and pieces that reflect our continued effort to work through these ideas. Appreciated the chance to share.
2022 - Fostering Strategic Science Communication related to TrustJohn C. Besley
This was a 1-hour talk for some colleagues at Northwestern. Laid out three things: What we've heard from talking to people in the scientific community about science communication, how we think about science communication through the lens of strategy, and how we study how scientists think about communication choices.
2021 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public TalkJohn C. Besley
An updated version of the 'strategic science communication' talk for astronomy communicators. Focuses more deeply on the goals that might make the most sense for basic science researchers.
Slides from a 2017 presentation to the Science Policy Fellows program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C. For more see: https://mattnisbet.substack.com/p/building-a-civic-science-culture
LTAR 2021 - Strategic Science Communication - A Focus on GoalsJohn C. Besley
Short talk (and long discussion) about the value of being strategic in science communication the context of the annual meeting of the Long Term Agroecosystem Research Network (LTAR).
Day1 Civic Science Lab: Experts in the Policymaking Process & Models of Scien...Matthew Nisbet
http://climateshiftproject.org/civic-science-lab-day-1/
In the morning session, we will spend time discussing how science and expert advice is used in the policy process; and the different roles that scientists and their organizations can and should play. We will also discuss how scientists generally tend to view the public, the media and the political process and how these assumptions might influence their participation in public life.
In the afternoon session, we will move to discussing the factors that influence public understanding, judgements and decisions. This research has informed different approaches to public outreach, education and communication. For each approach, we will draw on examples relevant to issues and topics that you work on or care deeply about.
For German Philosopher Martin Heidegger, “To be a work means to set up a world , and holds truth: Truth, as the
clearing and concealing of beings, happens in being composed.” Taking an adult-centered online course as “the
work” and a metaphor for a constructed world, the author uses an interdisciplinary approach to discuss the development of adults as learners.
Presented at the Jean Piaget Society for the Study of Knowledge & Development 37th Annual Meeting, Amsterdam
31 May–2 June, 2007
Who to believe: How epistemic cognition can inform science communication (key...Simon Knight
Who to believe? How epistemic cognition can inform science communication
Two patients with the same condition decide to research possible treatments. They encounter multiple sources, from experts and others, each with different – sometimes contradictory – information. Depending on whom they believe and how they integrate these claims, the patients may make radically different decisions. These situations are commonplace in everyday life, from medical choices, to our voting decisions. How do we understand these differences, and support people in making the best decisions?
Epistemic cognition provides one lens onto this problem. Epistemic cognition is the study of how people think about the justification, source, complexity, and certainty of knowledge. When we evaluate evidence, think about where and when it applies, and connect claims to build models, we engage our epistemic cognition. Understanding how people navigate their own, and others’ knowledge is one of the most pressing social issues of our time in order to develop a sustainable society. I’ll draw on research in epistemic cognition, and my own research on how people search for and talk about evidence, to flag key implications of epistemic cognition research for science communication.
Strategic science communication (Short Version): Delivered in Stellenbosch Se...John C. Besley
This is a shortened version of a talk I've prepared on science communication goals and objectives. I'll continue to update the presentation over time and appreciate the opportunity to talk about the ideas contained.
Excluding the already excluded: Architecture as a barrier | Ar. Navjit Gaurav...Archiloop India Foundation
Archiloop India Foundation | May 30, 2020
"Ar. Navjit Gaurav has extensive experience in community work within different states of India. He is co-author of the book "Beginners Guide on Access Audit for Higher Education Institutions-A Photo Narrative Approach He is a doctoral candidate of Rehabilitation Science at Queen's University, Canada. He is among the ten global recipients of the prestigious Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarship’19, his research aims to engage the rural Indian community through innovative participation that develops measures to improve the quality of life and social integration for people with disabilities."
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Strategic science communicatioon for Biosafety WorkshopJohn C. Besley
Presentation delivered July 18 in Entebbe, Uganda. This is a short version of a previously delivered talk on key objectives for science communication. Focus was on focusing on perceptions of warmth, listening, identity, competence when choosing communication tactics.
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Media Literacy Education in a Global SocietyRenee Hobbs
What We’re Learning and What We Still Need to Know
By Renee Hobbs
Media literacy education has greatly increased in visibility as increasing political polarization continues to threaten democratic societies. Around the world, tech companies invest in media literacy education, hoping that it will stave off regulation of their digital platforms. Journalists and politicians hope media literacy education will increase the public’s appetite for quality journalism to improve civic education. Parents expect that media literacy will help protect their children against the harms and risks of growing up with social media. And educators at all levels are beginning to recognize that the 4 C’s of media literacy (critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication skills) are increasingly central to an emerging conceptualization of a “new liberal arts” education. Which of these themes and areas of emphasis are privileged as media literacy education is implemented around the world? What are the most urgent needs still to be addressed? How can the many stakeholders for media literacy better coordinate their efforts to accelerate implementation?
Learn more: www.mediaeducationlab.com
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This is a 30 minute talk from 2022 for participants in a post bachelors degree fellows program provided the NIH Office of AIDS Research and the Sexual Gender and Minority Research Office. The talk includes some new slides, thinking on strategic science communication
How Do You want Scientists to be PerceivedJohn C. Besley
Slides for a April 1 plenary talk at the International Society for Biosafety Research talk in Tarragona, Spain, April 1, 2019. The talk focuses on the idea of strategic science communication in the context of genetic engineering. It emphasizes the importance of setting behavioral goals and then figuring out what types of communication objectives could ethically help you reach these goals over time. It further argued that public engagement activities should be understood as tactics meant to foster cognitive engagement and thus the formation of meaningful beliefs. The primary emphasis of the talk was on choosing communication tactics that have the potential to foster beliefs about scientists' warmth, openness, value similarity, honesty, and competence.
A presentation created to look at whether there is any truth to the idea that religion, in particular Biblical Inerrancy (Christian Fundamentalism), is a barrier to the Public's Acceptance of Scientific Knowledge.
Brief webinar on science talks at SRA in which I emphasize being clear about your goal and thinking about what content to include to achieve that goal. You don't just have to talk about the science; you should talk about the impact, etc.
(1) Dimensions of DiversityFor years, the term diversity ha.docxgertrudebellgrove
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For years, the term diversity has been associated with specific parameters such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, etc. It is important that we continue to understand those dimensions of diversity to evolve our conversation to more global aspects of our cultural selves. The graphic (click to enlarge) illustrates many dimensions of diversity that you may or may not have thought about.
For your initial discussion post think of diversity in all of its dimensions and discuss the concept of “difference.” What does it mean to be “different”? How do you determine who or what is different? Be sure to address the following:
1. In your family (extended, or otherwise), community, and workplace, what dimensions do you think of when you think someone is “different” than you? Do you focus on different dimensions depending on those three contexts?
2. Of those dimensions you think of, which can be changed and which cannot be changed?
3. Of those dimensions you think of, which are visible and which are non-visible? What are the advantages and disadvantages to having non-visible dimensions of diversity rather than visible ones?
Your initial discussion post should be at least 300 words (about three paragraphs).
Initial Post Checklist:
· Did you use scholarly resources to support your work?
· Did you discuss each area in the instruction and Grading Rubric?
· Did you use APA?
(2) My Cultural Self
Who we are today is in large part defined by our cultures, societal connections, customs, and morals we learned as children. In our life journey we continually redefine our identities as we encounter more experiences and more people.
For this discussion post, discuss the concept of “culture.” Include the following:
1. How would you define “culture”? Discuss all the various ways you can consider culture (personal, geographic, organizational, etc.).
2. With which cultures do you most identify? What are the internal and external characteristics of your culture(s)?
3. What cultural norms did you learn as a child? What stereotypes are connected to those cultures?
Your initial discussion post should be at least 300 words (about three paragraphs).
Initial Post Checklist:
· Did you use scholarly resources to support your work?
· Did you discuss each area in the instruction and Grading Rubric?
· Did you use APA?
Required Text
Digital Resource (Links to an external site.)
: American Psychological Association. (2010).
Publication manual of the American Psychological Association
(6th ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Constellation
: Kahn, A. (2015).
The ecology of diversity: Examining individuals, societies, and cultures
. San Diego, CA. Bridgepoint Education.
Constellation
: Sole, K., & Landrum, R. E. (2015).
Academic research and writing: A guide for the social sciences
. San Diego, CA. Bridgepoint Education.
Required Resources
Bloom, P. (2014, January).
Can prejudice ever.
2023 - MI Farm Bureau - Trust - How do you want to be perceived.pptxJohn C. Besley
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In the afternoon session, we will move to discussing the factors that influence public understanding, judgements and decisions. This research has informed different approaches to public outreach, education and communication. For each approach, we will draw on examples relevant to issues and topics that you work on or care deeply about.
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Two patients with the same condition decide to research possible treatments. They encounter multiple sources, from experts and others, each with different – sometimes contradictory – information. Depending on whom they believe and how they integrate these claims, the patients may make radically different decisions. These situations are commonplace in everyday life, from medical choices, to our voting decisions. How do we understand these differences, and support people in making the best decisions?
Epistemic cognition provides one lens onto this problem. Epistemic cognition is the study of how people think about the justification, source, complexity, and certainty of knowledge. When we evaluate evidence, think about where and when it applies, and connect claims to build models, we engage our epistemic cognition. Understanding how people navigate their own, and others’ knowledge is one of the most pressing social issues of our time in order to develop a sustainable society. I’ll draw on research in epistemic cognition, and my own research on how people search for and talk about evidence, to flag key implications of epistemic cognition research for science communication.
Strategic science communication (Short Version): Delivered in Stellenbosch Se...John C. Besley
This is a shortened version of a talk I've prepared on science communication goals and objectives. I'll continue to update the presentation over time and appreciate the opportunity to talk about the ideas contained.
Excluding the already excluded: Architecture as a barrier | Ar. Navjit Gaurav...Archiloop India Foundation
Archiloop India Foundation | May 30, 2020
"Ar. Navjit Gaurav has extensive experience in community work within different states of India. He is co-author of the book "Beginners Guide on Access Audit for Higher Education Institutions-A Photo Narrative Approach He is a doctoral candidate of Rehabilitation Science at Queen's University, Canada. He is among the ten global recipients of the prestigious Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarship’19, his research aims to engage the rural Indian community through innovative participation that develops measures to improve the quality of life and social integration for people with disabilities."
Webinar:- https://youtu.be/8zMvNr5Ywjs
Presentation: - https://bit.ly/3dAwYmp
Get Connected
Instagram:- https://bit.ly/2PBEGEm
YouTube:- https://bit.ly/2ZD3y1o
Facebook:- https://bit.ly/3jnwP7Q
LinkedIn:- https://bit.ly/3u0VbsO
Twitter:- https://bit.ly/3curGtf
Our Global network of attendees:- https://bit.ly/31rZHnK
#stayintheloop #archiloopindia #AIF
Archiloop India Foundation
contactus@archiloopindia.in
www.archiloopindia.in
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Presentation delivered July 18 in Entebbe, Uganda. This is a short version of a previously delivered talk on key objectives for science communication. Focus was on focusing on perceptions of warmth, listening, identity, competence when choosing communication tactics.
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Media literacy education has greatly increased in visibility as increasing political polarization continues to threaten democratic societies. Around the world, tech companies invest in media literacy education, hoping that it will stave off regulation of their digital platforms. Journalists and politicians hope media literacy education will increase the public’s appetite for quality journalism to improve civic education. Parents expect that media literacy will help protect their children against the harms and risks of growing up with social media. And educators at all levels are beginning to recognize that the 4 C’s of media literacy (critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication skills) are increasingly central to an emerging conceptualization of a “new liberal arts” education. Which of these themes and areas of emphasis are privileged as media literacy education is implemented around the world? What are the most urgent needs still to be addressed? How can the many stakeholders for media literacy better coordinate their efforts to accelerate implementation?
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Brief webinar on science talks at SRA in which I emphasize being clear about your goal and thinking about what content to include to achieve that goal. You don't just have to talk about the science; you should talk about the impact, etc.
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For your initial discussion post think of diversity in all of its dimensions and discuss the concept of “difference.” What does it mean to be “different”? How do you determine who or what is different? Be sure to address the following:
1. In your family (extended, or otherwise), community, and workplace, what dimensions do you think of when you think someone is “different” than you? Do you focus on different dimensions depending on those three contexts?
2. Of those dimensions you think of, which can be changed and which cannot be changed?
3. Of those dimensions you think of, which are visible and which are non-visible? What are the advantages and disadvantages to having non-visible dimensions of diversity rather than visible ones?
Your initial discussion post should be at least 300 words (about three paragraphs).
Initial Post Checklist:
· Did you use scholarly resources to support your work?
· Did you discuss each area in the instruction and Grading Rubric?
· Did you use APA?
(2) My Cultural Self
Who we are today is in large part defined by our cultures, societal connections, customs, and morals we learned as children. In our life journey we continually redefine our identities as we encounter more experiences and more people.
For this discussion post, discuss the concept of “culture.” Include the following:
1. How would you define “culture”? Discuss all the various ways you can consider culture (personal, geographic, organizational, etc.).
2. With which cultures do you most identify? What are the internal and external characteristics of your culture(s)?
3. What cultural norms did you learn as a child? What stereotypes are connected to those cultures?
Your initial discussion post should be at least 300 words (about three paragraphs).
Initial Post Checklist:
· Did you use scholarly resources to support your work?
· Did you discuss each area in the instruction and Grading Rubric?
· Did you use APA?
Required Text
Digital Resource (Links to an external site.)
: American Psychological Association. (2010).
Publication manual of the American Psychological Association
(6th ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Constellation
: Kahn, A. (2015).
The ecology of diversity: Examining individuals, societies, and cultures
. San Diego, CA. Bridgepoint Education.
Constellation
: Sole, K., & Landrum, R. E. (2015).
Academic research and writing: A guide for the social sciences
. San Diego, CA. Bridgepoint Education.
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Bloom, P. (2014, January).
Can prejudice ever.
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Strategic Science and Risk Communication: SRA Webinar
1. Welcome to the SRA Webinar Series
All of our Webinars are available to members
as videos online at SRA.org (you must be
logged in as a member)
2. In collaboration with Anthony Dudo, UTexas
This material is based upon work supported by the
National Science Foundation (NSF, Grant AISL
14241214-421723. Any opinions, findings,
conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this
material are those of the authors and do not
necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.
PhotobytheCDC
3. John Besley, Ph.D.
(2006: Cornell, Communication)
Ellis N. Brandt Professor
MSU Department of Advertising
and Public Relations
@JohnBesley
www.strategicsciencecommunication.com
4. Core Question: What is the goal
of your risk communication?
Stephen R. Sylvanie/USA Today Sports, via Reuters
5. Would you
be happy if you
only increased
awareness,
knowledge,
or interest ?
Knowledge
Interest
Others?
Communication Objectives Goals
Goals?Tactics?
10. 1
Released, October 2016
“Available research
does not support the
claim that increasing
science literacy will
lead to appreciably
greater support for
science in general.”
(or specific policies)
12. Flickr Creative Commons: dan hodgett, ‘an invitation’
Sharing knowledge will always be important
13. Clear + Focused > Unclear and Rambling
(i.e., little jargon, active voice, clear point, understandable)
Flickr Creative Commons: Mark Hunger ‘Focus’
16. Attitudes are the sum of available beliefs (b)
and the evaluation (e) of those beliefs
17.
18. What (other) beliefs can communication shape?
Perceived
caring/honest
Perceived
listening/open
Perceived
competence
Perceived
similarity
Smile, eparles; Listen, Montse PB; Brothers, Marie-Clair Camp; State Farm, Graduation & Safe Driving, all via Flickr Creative Commons
(not uncaring or
dishonest)
(not disconnected) (not ‘elitists’ ) (not incompetent )
19. What other beliefs can we shape?
Risks &
benefits
(attitudes/
emotions)
What other
people do
and expect
(norms)
Whether
something
works and
your ability
(efficacy)
Flickr creative commons: Seyed Mostofa Zamani, Paul Skeie; also Top Gear website
20. Half what? Kaylan Chakrvarthy via Flickr Creative Commons
Framing:
How should we see this glass?
21. Framing …
DON’T use the language of
conflict. Most Americans
don’t typically respond well
to framing LGBT issues as a
“war,” “battle” or “fight.” …
Instead, talk in way that …
suggests all people—
including LGBT people—
simply deserve to be treated
like everyone else.
https://lgbtmap.org/file/talking-about-overall-approaches-for-lgbt-issues.pdf
25. Final thoughts …
There are no
silver bullets
Not everyone
is reachable
It takes time
and a community
26. Some of our research …
Besley, J. C., & Dudo, A. (2017). Scientists’ Views about Public Engagement and Science
Communication in the Context of Climate Change. The Oxford Encyclopedia of
Climate Change Communication.
Besley, J. C., Dudo, A., & Storksdieck, M. (2015). Scientists' views about
communication training. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 52, 199-220.
Besley, J. C., Dudo, A., & Yuan, S. (In Press). Scientists’ views about communication
objectives. Public Understanding of Science. doi: 10.1177/0963662517728478
Besley, J. C., Dudo, A., Yuan, S., & AbiGhannam, N. (2016). Qualitative interviews with
science communication trainers about communication objectives and goals.
Science Communication, 38, 356-381.
Besley, J. C., Dudo, A., Yuan, S., & Lawrence, F. (In Press). Understanding scientists’
willingness to engage. Science Communication.
Dudo, A., & Besley, J. C. (2016). Scientists’ prioritization of communication objectives
for public engagement PLoS ONE, 11.
Yuan, S., Oshita, T., AbiGhannam, N., Dudo, A., Besley, J. C., & Koh, H. E. (In press).
Two-way communication between scientists and the public: a view from science
communication trainers in North America. International Journal of Science
Education, Part B.
27. If you have 800 words …
100
150
150
300
100
RISKS faced by
communities
Researchers motivation to
help (WARMTH)
What was done to listen
to communities
(LISTENING)
Scientific findings
(KNOWLEDGE)
What can be done
(EFFICACY)
If you have 60 minutes …
5
5
20
5
25
RISKS faced by
communities
Researchers shared
values with audience
(IDENTITY)
Scientific findings
(KNOWLEDGE)
Potential solutions
(EFFICACY)
Discussion/Questions
(LISTENING)
+ Tactics that may take resources but don’t take time/
space (clothing, tone, frame, venue/channel, timing, etc.)
Editor's Notes
Background on me …
Background on me … I study public opinion about science and risk as well as scientists views about the public.
On the public opinion side, one thing I do as an example is that I write a biennial chapter for the National Science Board on public attitudes about science around the world for its Science and Engineering Indicators report.
I started studying scientists’ views about the public about six years ago as I was making the switch from my previous faculty position at the University of South Carolina to MSU. One other aspect of that switch that’s important is that it meant taking a job in a department focused on strategic communication rather than journalism.
The switch in department along with the switch focus to scientist has somehow gotten me increasingly focused on this question of how we could better use the evidence base from communication research to information communication practice so I’ve done a lot of research lately around understanding the science communication training landscape for scientists with Anthony Dudo at Texas.
The place I usually start with these types of discussions is to ask the participants to tell me what they want to accomplish through communication. What’s their goal?
In this case, we can’t do it orally but I’d love for people to type in what they see as a primary goal for communication? This should be the first question that any communication professional asks you when you sit down to start talking about a new project and I’m going to argue it should be your starting point as well when you think about putting time and resources into communication activity.
I’m curious to see what you all type in but I guess I should also warn you that I usually end up pushing back on what people enter.
Looking at the responses as they rolled in I was happy to see a few different things but I also wasn’t surprised to see a lot of people mention that they saw the goal of communication as sharing information [or even fighting misinformation]. That’s a totally normal response but it’s also the one I’m going to spend some time pushing back on in the hour we have. And I’m going to do that for two reasons.
The first is that I’m going to argue that sharing information and getting people interested in a topic isn’t what we should see as the goal of communication. I’m going to call that as two potential objectives of communication. We’re going to spend most of our time today talk about other objectives beyond knowledge and interest but I want to spend a little bit of time first talking about what I see as meaningful communication goals.
We’ll also touch a little bit on tactics and how they relate to objectives and goals along the way …
I didn’t always think this way but I’ve come to be pretty convinced that if you really push most scientists they’ll eventually agree that they want to see something happen because of their communication efforts and that ‘thing’ can usually be categorized as some sort of behavior.
The behavior might be civic in nature and involved having people support or oppose some policy or the use of science in policy and sometimes it’s more focused around behaviors like buying or avoiding certain types of products.
On the policy side, it’s also important to recognize the difference between explicit support or opposition versus implicit or support or opposition. For example, I’m not sure that proponents of genetically engineered need support as much as they need people to spend their time thinking about other things.
That being said, one of my favorite bodies of research deals with the concept of procedural fairness and I think the idea of legitimacy represents an important type of tacit support that a lot of science and risk communicators often want. In this regard, I think of legitimacy as the idea that someone can accept a decision that they don’t necessarily support.
Whatever the case, the key thing for me is that these are not things like knowledge or interest. They’re behaviors, at loosely defined.
A related problem often crops up, however, even if people are able to identity a behavior they want to see happen.
What often happens is that we fall into the trap of thinking that the best way to get behavior change is to change people’s beliefs about what scientific research tells us about that behavior.
I think this is a pretty natural trap for people like us who have spent so much time in classrooms and books.
And it’s easy to point to lots of evidence, some of which help produce through things like Science and Engineering Indicators that people don’t know very much about science in general or any given scientific topic.
And it’s not just science literacy that people think is problem. Every field seems to think that the world would be better if everyone just knew more about their area of interest.
The problem – and I know a lot of you know this – is that there’s not a lot of evidence that increasing people’s general or specific scientific knowledge will change people’s behavior.
In my world, this is typically called a knowledge deficit approach to changing behavior although Dan Kahan has also called it the science comprehension thesis.
Nick Allum from the UK did a really nice meta-analysis more than a decade ago that did a nice job showing the small relationship between knowledge and attitudes and I was on a National Academies committee a couple of years ago where we dove into this literature once again but the conclusion was what people in science and risk communication have known for some time: You can’t simply teach people to change their behavior.
We therefore need to think about other possible objectives.
In the risk world, we’ve of course known through research like Paul Slovic’s on risk perceptions that people don’t think about risks associated with new technologies using some combination of perceived probability and perceived impact. Instead, it seems pretty clear that they use their gut feelings related to whether things seem new or novel and whether something seems like a particularly dreadful way to get hurt.
And I am definitely not saying that sharing scientific knowledge isn’t an important part of science and risk communication.
It’s why people come to hear us or invite us to come share our work. My point is only that sharing the results of your research or your field’s research is just one type of content you can share.
It’s one objective in just minute we’re going to talk about other ones. I promise.
One last thing though before we get to some objectives is that I want highlight that I’m not going to spend any specific time today talking about writing clearly and without jargon on things like story telling.
I think we can all agree that you’re probably better to communication clearly.
And there are lots of good books aimed at helping you speak and write in a clear and compelling way.
The interesting thing for me is that most of the science communication books that are on the market right now and most of the training that people get in science communication is focused around things like giving a clear, jargon-free elevator pitch.
That’s interesting to me because I think that’s what a lot of people think communication is … but we have about 100 research faculty in my college and I don’t know that any of them spend time studying clear writing and speaking or jargon.
We definitely help our students – especially our journalism, advertising, and PR students – write clearly but it’s not what we research.
On the quantitative side, what most of us study is something about how communication affects various attitudes or beliefs or feelings and how the sum of those changes might affect behavior.
It turns out there’s a lot of us because there’s a lot of different things you can study.
If you just think about the idea of a belief. There’s lots of different options.
We can understand scientific knowledge as correct beliefs about how the world works but there’s lots of other types of beliefs too.
The beliefs I have typically cared the most about in my research are those associated with trust … One problem with the idea of trust in general is that it’s not really clear enough to be a communication objective. But if you say that you want to choose to prioritize being seen as honest and caring then we can start thinking of tactics that might make that possible.
What might such tactics be? At the most basic, if you want to be seen as warm you should be nice and try to smile. More substantially, if you research a topic because you want to make the world better, you might consider sharing that information with your audience. Of course, that’s not true, you can’t say it but if it is true, you might use a little bit of your time or space to let people know.
Similarly, if want to be perceived as listening or giving voice, you might do things like really listen to people while making sure that people know you’re listening, have listened in the past, and will continue to listen in the future.
The same thing goes for being seen as not-so-different and competent. You have often have to take time if you’re speaking or space if you’re writing to share that information but what the reason we like to focus on clarifying objectives is that it open up a discussion of the tactics you might use to achieve those objectives, including what you might say or do …
These are typically the variables that seem to be good predictors of goals such as policy support and legitimacy. Communication researchers have also shown that these types of variables are good predictors of whether or not someone will even listen to what you have to say.
How do you know if you should focus on these objectives?
The idea of insight in an advertising brief?
Don’t forget to mention ethics …
There’s one other objective I want to talk about briefly and that’s the idea of framing.
Framing gets a bad name because people think of it is spin but I think communication researchers just think of it as another choice you either have to make consciously or unconsciously. Strategic communicators recognize that they have choices in how to accurately describe the same thing.