Over the last 30 years a variety of techniques have been developed that aim to democratize science and technology, which have been variably referred to as ‘formalized mechanisms of voicing’ , or ‘technologies of democracy’ . The emergence of these engagement activities coincided with the growing impact of neoliberal reforms on the governance of science and technology. Although neoliberalism should not be seen as a monolithic and static ideology, there are several reoccurring characteristics that are widely understood to have led to an erosion of political institutions for public representation, like the tendency to favor markets over governments, trade liberalization over national protectionism, and individual economic self-responsibility over social redistributive measures. Public engagement activities with science and technology, in this context, can be understood as attempts to create new political spaces for publics to have a voice.
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