Gerald E. Markle’s scientific contributions

... The field most commonly investigates these topics through the use of qualitative methods, such as interviews and case studies. STS thus offers theoretical resources for engaging public communities in scientific research and advocacy, as a significant research focus is on how science can more fully and equitably serve public communities (Hess, 1997;Jasanoff et al., 2001;Sismondo, 2010). ...

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Public Engagement with Science: Defining the Project

... The reliability of a research instrument concerns the extent to which the instrument yields the same results on repeated trials (Darr, 2005). It has been argued that there can be no validity without reliability and a demonstration of validity is sufficient to establish reliability (Lincoln, 1985;Patton, 2001). ...

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Resource Allocation, Evaluational Capacity Building M&E Results Utilization Among Community Based Organizations in Meru County in Kenya

... This distinction between the social and the cognitive dimension would be maintained in the general information and communication theory that Leydesdorff subsequently developed. It also set his position apart from most dominant constructivist approaches within STS and social science (Felt et al., 2016;Jasanoff, 1995;Knorr-Cetina & Mulkay, 1983), although his approach can on good grounds also be characterized as a form of antipositivistic constructivism. ...

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Complexity to the cube: Loet Leydesdorff 1948-2023