Deficit Model in Public Communication of Science: Insights from Metatheoretical Structuralism
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https://doi.org/10.48160/18532330me13.351Keywords:
public communication of science and technology, deficit model, structuralist reconstructionAbstract
Since the end of the 1980s, a constant in the theorizations of Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) and in the STS field in general has been a construct called by Brian Wynne the "Deficit Model", which consists of assuming as a premise the public ignorance on science and technology issues. Martin Bauer claims that the current evolution in the PCST paradigms responded to successive attempts to get faraway form such construct, which however remains. But Bauer’s account of Deficit Model seems to be a different one, so that it raises questions still unresolved about such assertion. We propose here a first structuralist reconstruction of the three paradigms recognized by Bauer in order to elucidate this key matter of this discipline.
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