Based on the experience of researching and writing a book on urban policing in France and its reception by the media and various audiences, this essay discusses the challenges facing a public ethnography—distinguished from public sociology or anthropology. First, I differentiate two tasks (popularizing and politicizing) and multiple publics (imagined or encountered). Second, I plead for the exp...

The essay reflects on the children’s environmental movement from perspective of cultural theory, as well authors’ own and others’ research encounters, experiences engagement in public life. concepts political knowingness, childhood publics, listening publics are evoked to think through surprise that generated sphere. idiom is positioned an audience ‘hearing aid’ for turning babbling into messag...

Like asteroids, hundred-year floods and pandemic disease, thermonuclear war is a low-frequency, high-impact threat. In the long run, catastrophe inevitable if nothing done − yet each successive government generation may fail to address it. Drawing on risk perception research, this paper argues that psychological biases cause threat of nuclear receive less attention than it deserves. Nuclear det...

Journalistes et construction médiatique des problèmes publics. Introduction

Abstract Since 2008, the activity of gold mining without a permit in Ranjo Batu Village has always been polemic. There have pros and cons community. Some people get various benefits, but others feel disadvantaged, giving rise to perceptions. In this article, we focus more on environmental aspect. The most apparent impact activities is decrease quality, some seem ignore it because pragmatic view...

Algorithms increasingly control the backbone of media and information systems. This control occurs deep within opaque technical systems far from the political attention capable of addressing its influence. It also challenges conventional public theory, because the technical operation of algorithms does not prompt the reflection and awareness necessary for forming publics. Informed public delibe...

It is undeniable that contemporary internetworking practices are drastically altering the social, political, moral, epistemological, and cultural landscapes in which we live. In a world in which an increasing amount of information is increasingly available everywhere and in which an increasing amount of everyday activity yields information about our innermost selves, we simply cannot stand stil...

The importance of listening to and engaging publics in the design and implementation of immunization policies and programmes has been well established (Waisbord 2004; Cooper et al. 2008; Obregon 2009; Larson et al. 2010; Larson et al. 2011). There are a number of examples of the costs (financial and social) of not involving publics early, the most acute being the boycott of polio vaccination in...