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PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE
Volume 19, Issue 3, Pages 258-273Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0963662509102694
Keywords
actor-network theory; cartography of controversies; observation methods; public understanding of science; representations of science; scientific controversies; studies of science and technology
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The cartography of controversies is a set of techniques to explore and visualize issues. It was developed by Bruno Latour as a didactic version of Actor-Network Theory to train college students in the investigation of contemporary socio-technical debate. The scope and interest of such cartography, however, exceed its didactic origin. Adopted and developed in several universities in Europe and the US, the cartography of controversies is today a full research method, though, unfortunately, not a much documented one. To fill this lack of documentation, we draw on our experience as Latour's teaching assistant, to introduce some of the main techniques of the social cartographer toolkit. In particular, in these pages we will focus on exploration, leaving the discussion of visualization tools to a further paper.
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