Renato Schibeci
Biographic Data
| ID | 762114 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Renato Schibeci |
| GIVEN NAMES | Renato |
| FAMILY NAME | Schibeci |
| SIGNATURE | SCHIBECI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Murdoch University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Prompting transdisciplinary research: Promising futures for using the performance metaphor in research
What conceptions of science communication are espoused by science research funding bodies
We examine the conceptions of science communication, especially in relation to “public engagement with science” (PES), evident in the literature and websites of science research funding bodies in Europe, North America, South America, Asia and Oceania, and Africa. The analysis uses a fourfold classification of science communication to situate these conceptions: professional, deficit, consultative and deliberative. We find that all bodies engage in…
Community Participation in Australian Science and Technology Policy: The Case of Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology is widely considered to offer enormous competitive advantages to those countries that possess the knowledge and capacity to harness its potential. As in many other countries, Australia’s nanotechnology policy is in its infancy and lags international research in the field. We examine the role of community engagement in the development of nanotechnology in Australia, and argue that if Australia is to establish a sustainable nanotechn…
Stimulating authentic community involvement in biotechnology policy in Australia
This paper analyzes community involvement in biotechnology policy in Australia. Specifically, we examine the Gene Technology Act 2000 that governs gene technology in Australia and the roles of the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator and the Gene Technology Community Consultative Committee. We contend that the institutions that underpin biotechnology policy serve to hamper community involvement and reinforce a cognitive deficit model of commun…
Community Involvement in Biotechnology Policy: The Australian Experience
The authors analyze the framework for public participation in Australian biotechnology policy and argue that participation is undermined by the institutional structures that were ostensibly designed to facilitate consultation. They conclude that for the moment, community consultation in the formulation of Australian biotechnology policy appears limited. Indeed, the Australian Gene Technology Act 2000 and the Gene Technology Community Consultative…
A framework and checklists for evaluating online learning in higher education
A case is made in this paper for using checklists and context-bound evaluations of online learning materials in higher education. Context-bound evaluations complement traditional forms of evaluation of educational courseware, such as checklists. Context-bound approaches are useful for indicating the pedagogical quality of online learning materials that may be productively used in conjunction with checklists to evaluate online learning. Edith Cowa…
Beyond Public Perceptions of Gene Technology: Community Participation in Public Policy in Australia
Public policy assumptions, which view “the public” as passive consumers, are deeply flawed. “The public” are, in fact, active citizens, who constitute the innovation end of the seamless web of relationships, running from research and development laboratory to shop, hospital or farm, or local neighborhood. “The public” do not receive the impact of technology; they are the impact, in that they determine with gene technology (GT) developers and sell…
"What Do You Think about Genetic Medicine?" Facilitating Sociable Public Discourse on Developments in the New Genetics
An important aspect of any meaningful public discussion about developments in gene technology is the provision of opportunities for interested publics to engage in sociable public discourse with other lay people and with experts. This article reports on a series of peer group conversations conducted in late 1996 and early 1997 with sixteen community groups in Perth, Western Australia, interested in gene therapy technology. With the case of cystic…
Gene Technology Communication: Facilitating Public Deliberation of pST Gene Technology
This article reports the second phase of a three-year project on public perceptions of biotechnology, conducted in Perth, Western Australia. The purposes of this second phase were (1) to further develop a computer-based method for investigating public perceptions of biotechnology with individuals and to extend the method to focus groups, and (2) to report the perceptions of “interested publics” about the use of a genetically engineered pig growth…
Public attitudes to gene technology: The case of the MacGregor's® tomato
This paper reports the pilot phase of a three-year project, `Public perceptions of biotechnology', conducted in Perth, Western Australia. The purposes of this pilot investigation were (1) to develop a computer-based method for investigating public perceptions of biotechnology, and (2) to report the perceptions of four `interested publics' about the Flavr SavrTM/MacGregor's® tomato, a genetically engineered tomato. By `interested publics' we mean …
Problematic Publics: A Critical Review of Surveys of Public Attitudes to Biotechnology
This article discusses a range of recent major surveys of public attitudes toward biotechnology. The authors identify a number of problematic features of the surveys: the use of predominantly consumerist rather than civic conception of public discourse; the assumption of a unitary "general public," a "cognitive deficit" approach to public understanding of science; and the presumption of a politically neutral and instrumental ist model of science …
Public Knowledge and Perceptions of Science and Technology
Use of Lisrel in Empirical Test Validation: An Illustration Using a Classroom Environment Instrument
LISREL was used to provide some widely applicable methods for testing the empirical structure of an instrument in terms of both respondents' answers to items and expert judges' categorizations of items. Whereas confirmatory maximum-likelihood factor analysis was employed to test the dimensionality of respondents' answers, latent partition analysis (involving factor analysis of a joint proportions matrix) was used to assess the structure of judges…
Empirical Validation of the Conceptual Structure of a Test of Science-Related Attitudes
The 70 items of the Test of Science Related Attitudes (TOSRA) were given to 1041 students who responded directly to them as attitude test items and to 39 teachers who were asked to assign the items to categories, without directions about either the number of categories to be used or the criteria to be employed in establishing them. Factor analysis of the item correlation matrix obtained from the student responses suggested that the seven subscale…
"What Do You Think about Genetic Medicine?" Facilitating Sociable Public Discourse on Developments in the New Genetics
An important aspect of any meaningful public discussion about developments in gene technology is the provision of opportunities for interested publics to engage in sociable public discourse with other lay people and with experts. This article reports on a series of peer group conversations conducted in late 1996 and early 1997 with sixteen community groups in Perth, Western Australia, interested in gene therapy technology. With the case of cystic…
Prompting transdisciplinary research: Promising futures for using the performance metaphor in research
Community Involvement in Biotechnology Policy: The Australian Experience
The authors analyze the framework for public participation in Australian biotechnology policy and argue that participation is undermined by the institutional structures that were ostensibly designed to facilitate consultation. They conclude that for the moment, community consultation in the formulation of Australian biotechnology policy appears limited. Indeed, the Australian Gene Technology Act 2000 and the Gene Technology Community Consultative…
Gene Technology Communication: Facilitating Public Deliberation of pST Gene Technology
This article reports the second phase of a three-year project on public perceptions of biotechnology, conducted in Perth, Western Australia. The purposes of this second phase were (1) to further develop a computer-based method for investigating public perceptions of biotechnology with individuals and to extend the method to focus groups, and (2) to report the perceptions of “interested publics” about the use of a genetically engineered pig growth…
Empirical Validation of the Conceptual Structure of a Test of Science-Related Attitudes
The 70 items of the Test of Science Related Attitudes (TOSRA) were given to 1041 students who responded directly to them as attitude test items and to 39 teachers who were asked to assign the items to categories, without directions about either the number of categories to be used or the criteria to be employed in establishing them. Factor analysis of the item correlation matrix obtained from the student responses suggested that the seven subscale…
Use of Lisrel in Empirical Test Validation: An Illustration Using a Classroom Environment Instrument
LISREL was used to provide some widely applicable methods for testing the empirical structure of an instrument in terms of both respondents' answers to items and expert judges' categorizations of items. Whereas confirmatory maximum-likelihood factor analysis was employed to test the dimensionality of respondents' answers, latent partition analysis (involving factor analysis of a joint proportions matrix) was used to assess the structure of judges…
Public Knowledge and Perceptions of Science and Technology
Public attitudes to gene technology: The case of the MacGregor's® tomato
This paper reports the pilot phase of a three-year project, `Public perceptions of biotechnology', conducted in Perth, Western Australia. The purposes of this pilot investigation were (1) to develop a computer-based method for investigating public perceptions of biotechnology, and (2) to report the perceptions of four `interested publics' about the Flavr SavrTM/MacGregor's® tomato, a genetically engineered tomato. By `interested publics' we mean …
Problematic Publics: A Critical Review of Surveys of Public Attitudes to Biotechnology
This article discusses a range of recent major surveys of public attitudes toward biotechnology. The authors identify a number of problematic features of the surveys: the use of predominantly consumerist rather than civic conception of public discourse; the assumption of a unitary "general public," a "cognitive deficit" approach to public understanding of science; and the presumption of a politically neutral and instrumental ist model of science …
Gene Technology Communication: Facilitating Public Deliberation of pST Gene Technology
This article reports the second phase of a three-year project on public perceptions of biotechnology, conducted in Perth, Western Australia. The purposes of this second phase were (1) to further develop a computer-based method for investigating public perceptions of biotechnology with individuals and to extend the method to focus groups, and (2) to report the perceptions of “interested publics” about the use of a genetically engineered pig growth…
"What Do You Think about Genetic Medicine?" Facilitating Sociable Public Discourse on Developments in the New Genetics
An important aspect of any meaningful public discussion about developments in gene technology is the provision of opportunities for interested publics to engage in sociable public discourse with other lay people and with experts. This article reports on a series of peer group conversations conducted in late 1996 and early 1997 with sixteen community groups in Perth, Western Australia, interested in gene therapy technology. With the case of cystic…
Beyond Public Perceptions of Gene Technology: Community Participation in Public Policy in Australia
Public policy assumptions, which view “the public” as passive consumers, are deeply flawed. “The public” are, in fact, active citizens, who constitute the innovation end of the seamless web of relationships, running from research and development laboratory to shop, hospital or farm, or local neighborhood. “The public” do not receive the impact of technology; they are the impact, in that they determine with gene technology (GT) developers and sell…
A framework and checklists for evaluating online learning in higher education
A case is made in this paper for using checklists and context-bound evaluations of online learning materials in higher education. Context-bound evaluations complement traditional forms of evaluation of educational courseware, such as checklists. Context-bound approaches are useful for indicating the pedagogical quality of online learning materials that may be productively used in conjunction with checklists to evaluate online learning. Edith Cowa…
Community Involvement in Biotechnology Policy: The Australian Experience
The authors analyze the framework for public participation in Australian biotechnology policy and argue that participation is undermined by the institutional structures that were ostensibly designed to facilitate consultation. They conclude that for the moment, community consultation in the formulation of Australian biotechnology policy appears limited. Indeed, the Australian Gene Technology Act 2000 and the Gene Technology Community Consultative…
Stimulating authentic community involvement in biotechnology policy in Australia
This paper analyzes community involvement in biotechnology policy in Australia. Specifically, we examine the Gene Technology Act 2000 that governs gene technology in Australia and the roles of the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator and the Gene Technology Community Consultative Committee. We contend that the institutions that underpin biotechnology policy serve to hamper community involvement and reinforce a cognitive deficit model of commun…
Community Participation in Australian Science and Technology Policy: The Case of Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology is widely considered to offer enormous competitive advantages to those countries that possess the knowledge and capacity to harness its potential. As in many other countries, Australia’s nanotechnology policy is in its infancy and lags international research in the field. We examine the role of community engagement in the development of nanotechnology in Australia, and argue that if Australia is to establish a sustainable nanotechn…
What conceptions of science communication are espoused by science research funding bodies
We examine the conceptions of science communication, especially in relation to “public engagement with science” (PES), evident in the literature and websites of science research funding bodies in Europe, North America, South America, Asia and Oceania, and Africa. The analysis uses a fourfold classification of science communication to situate these conceptions: professional, deficit, consultative and deliberative. We find that all bodies engage in…
Prompting transdisciplinary research: Promising futures for using the performance metaphor in research
Political science (9 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Biology (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (3 works)