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...ascertained efficiency with which full, relevant information elicited from all appropriate sources, transferred to (and processed by) all appropriate recipients, and combined (when required) to give an aggregate/consensual response. (1)
Hence, in part, it is information that must flow and be taken up for democratic public engagement to achieve its goals. (2)
However, how best to create this 'engaging information' is a challenging problem. For instance, in the case of democratic engagement over the governance of genomics--the study of 'genes and their functions'--much of the information required for democratic public engagement is scientific and hence conceptually complex, as well as riddled with technical jargon and the vested interests of experts in developing their own field. This information is therefore not easily presented to citizens with often limited technical expertise.
Consequently, efforts to engage citizens about genomics need to answer i) what information someone would need to effectively participate in democratic deliberation on a given topic, and ii) how to obtain, assess, and present this information in a manner that encourages public engagement with the information and each other?
This paper presents a brief summary of early experimentation with the use of journalism as a technique to cope with the above difficulties and produce information useful for democratic engagement on the topic of salmon genomics. Journalism is a widely variant profession, but for the purposes of this paper is defined as storytelling, in a truth-seeking tradition,...
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