Travail écrit : "Sound Science to all ? Evidence-based Knowledge Communication in a Science-Policy-Society Interface: the case of the European Science-Media Hub"

Abstract

This thesis starts from the post-truth challenge and tackles the need to improve science communication practices. The European Science-Media Hub was established in 2017 by the STOA Panel for the Future of Science and Technology as a response to the public distrust towards science and policy institutions. This element of the European response to the post-truth era will constitute the case study of this thesis. The organizational aspects of the European Science-Media Hub will be analyzed in order to understand how this project can help in the task of communicating sound science in a science-policy-society interface. The analysis applied both Pielke’s knowledge brokering typology and Nisbet and Fahy’s knowledge-based journalistic approaches through the use of the boundary organization framework. The main findings of this paper stress the complementarity of the STOA and the European Science-Media Hub. Indeed, the institutional embeddedness provided by the boundary chain ESMH-STOA enables an efficient science communication to its audience and effective opportunities to develop answers to the post-truth challenge. However, some potential biases could arise from this institutional assemblage and question the independent and objective aspects of the European Science-Media Hub knowledge communication.