Communicating Science and Technology in Society: Issues of Public Accountability and Engagement

Introduction: How the Sociology of Science and Technology Addresses Science and Society Relations (Ana Delicado).- Part I: Scientists' Research Practices and Responses to Societal Demands.- Norms, Competition, and Visibility in Contemporary Science: The Legacy of Robert K. Merton ( Massimiano Bucchi).- Re-distributing Responsibility in Transdisciplinary Knowledge Production and Circulation (Thomas Völker).- How Do Scientists Doing Animal Experimentation View the Co-evolution Between Science and Society? The Swiss Case (Fabienne Crettaz Von Roten).- Science-Society Relations in a Context of Technological Change: How Scientists Working on Renewable Energy Technologies Perceive Their Role in the Energy Transition (Luís Junqueira).- Part II: Science Communication and Citizen Participation in Science.- Bringing Science to Public: Is it a Matter for Scientific Associations? (Cristina Palma Conceição).- Turning the Gaze on Ourselves: Public Communication of Sociology (Ana Delicado).- Technologies of Participation in Water Plans in Portugal: What kind of Science-Society Relation Are We Talking About? (Sofia Bento & Oriana Rainho Brás).- Material Trajectories: How issues Come to Matter in a Citizen Conference (Guillem Palà & Miquel Domènech).- Two Turtles: Children and Autonomy in Participatory Technological Design (Núria Vallès-Peris & Miquel Domènech).